...Héctor Cuevas-Vargas; Héctor Abraham Cortés-Palacios Purpose This study aims to examine the relationship between capital structure, technological innovation and business performance in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) within the manufacturing industries in Mexico, offering insights...

... literature is unanimous in stating that Lean Production (LP) (Shah and Ward, 2003) has a direct and positive effect on business performance (BP) (Rahman et al., 2010 ; Moyano et al., 2021 ; Cifone and Portioli Staudacher, 2022). However, Maqueira et al. (2021) found...

... learning Operational capabilities Business performance The manufacturing literature has introduced operational capabilities as a crucial concept (Sansone et al., 2017 ; Slack and Lewis, 2001 ; Wu et al., 2010). Operational capabilities represent a firm's specific abilities...

...Ebenezer Afum; Yuan Gao; Yaw Agyabeng-Mensah; Zhuo Sun Purpose This paper explores the nexus between lean operations, eco-product innovativeness, social performance, green performance and business performance. Both direct and indirect effects are tested among the variables under consideration...

... is the connection between lean and financial performance measures? What are the main paths for further research when concurrently investigating lean and financial performance? Lean manufacturing Practices Measures Financial performance Business performance Competitiveness The first studies...

... quality management (TQM) are some of the practices adopted by firms to improve operational performance (OP) and business performance (BP). This study examines the direct influence of GSCPs, JIT and TQM on operational performance and BP. The study further analyzes the synergy of GSCPs, JIT and TQM on OP...

...Dimitrios Kafetzopoulos; Katerina Gotzamani; Dimitrios Skalkos Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the extent to which the five European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) model enablers, as the latent factor “enabler excellence,” are associated with business performance, taking...

... 2017 09 12 2017 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2018 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Manufacturing strategy Manufacturing technology Modelling Business performance Business and IT alignment Domain: representing functional areas, organisational...

...Morteza Ghobakhloo; Adel Azar Purpose The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the existing knowledge about the relationships between advanced manufacturing technology (AMT), lean manufacturing (LM), agile manufacturing (AM), and business performance. Design/methodology/approach...

... Business performance Supply chains Satisfying the demand for spare parts (SP) is a challenge for both the supplier and the customer. On the one hand, the supplier aims to reduce the requirement for holding of slow-moving/excess inventory without causing adverse impact on customer satisfaction...

... social responsibility Business performance Triple bottom line Liability Workplace safety Safety systems Due to strict government regulations, consumer awareness, and market forces, business firms in the current environment cannot be strictly motivated by profit, they must be concerned...

... 2016 06 01 2017 17 03 2017 29 03 2017 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Innovation Knowledge management Business performance Manufacturing Corporate culture Knowledge processes Knowledge management (KM...

... manufacturing companies, it could be a representative of companies that are operating in developed countries that are facing the so-called “anemic growth.” Cluster analysis Lean Lean manufacturing Operations strategy Business performance Manufacturing operations In the last decade, significant...

... insight by indicating that low operational performance on even one important competitive factor leads to lower business performance (order-losing effect); excessive investment in increasing operational performance on any less important competitive factor does not necessarily lead to higher business...

...Gusman Nawanir; Lim Kong Teong; Siti Norezam Othman Purpose – This study aims to investigate the relationship between lean practices, operations performance (OP), and business performance (BP). Design/methodology/approach – This survey-based study was a cross-sectional study. The samples...

... enterprises Business performance In the post‐liberalization and opening up of the economy business era, ease in international trade barriers, economic liberalization, globalization, privatization, disinvestments and deregulations have thrown several challenges to small and medium‐sized enterprises...

... and ISO implementation depth. Furthermore, the implementation of ISO 9000 directly and positively influences operational performance and indirectly affects market performance, in turn positively impacting business performance. Originality/value This study represents a first attempt to construct...

... and prospectors and the path to either high or low performance. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Corporate strategy Business performance Small to medium‐sized enterprises Harrison (2003) states: … without question, the greatest managerial challenges lie ahead. It is hard...

... a positive impact. The conclusion has to be that the research findings are contradictory. Whilst some studies have found that the use of non‐financial performance measures has a positive impact on business performance (Ittner and Larcker, 1998, 2003 ; Banker et al., 2000) others found...