...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...

... may be seen at http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode Supply chain flexibility Lean production Information system flexibility Paradox Business performance Interesting because – This is the first study that identifies the IS flexibility paradox in the SCF-BP...

...@gmail.com 24 04 2023 19 07 2023 20 09 2023 25 09 2023 25 09 2023 Past business performance is a valuable source of learning for capable firms, guiding present and future actions (Argote and Hora, 2017 ; Uhrin et al., 2020). Learning from past performance can lead...

...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...

...://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode Lean manufacturing Practices Measures Financial performance Business performance Competitiveness Under the leadership of Taiichi Ohno, Toyota defined a new industrial production model focused on the reduction of waste, continuous improvement...

... 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...

... Limited 2018 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Manufacturing strategy Manufacturing technology Modelling Business performance Business and IT alignment Recent economic, cultural and technological phenomena such as globalisation and the upsurge of new technologies...

... re-use rights only Customer satisfaction Inventory management Additive manufacturing 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...

...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...

... Risk management Workforce Sustainable production Standards Corporate social responsibility Business performance Triple bottom line Liability Workplace safety Safety systems The market-adjusted returns model estimates the abnormal return based on the difference between the total return...

... 0.5821 Note: Italic numbers represent the AVE values and the other matrix values are the squared inter-construct correlation values Innovation Knowledge management Business performance Manufacturing Corporate culture Knowledge processes Knowledge management (KM...

....” Cluster analysis Lean Lean manufacturing Operations strategy Business performance Manufacturing operations In the last decade, significant interest has been shown by researchers and practitioners in the idea of “lean manufacturing,” originally developed by Toyota Motor Company (Womack et...

... 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...

... be considered to be good in Indian context where industry‐institute linkages are not so strong. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Business process re‐engineering Resource management India Small to medium‐sized enterprises Business performance ERP software integrates the various...

... 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...

.... © 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 to predict with precision the kind of environment the next...

... dimensions (Lingle and Schiemann, 1996) and are structured in a way that helps managers understand the interrelationship and reflects strategy (Lipe and Salterio, 2000, 2002). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Performance measurement (quality) Performance management Business performance...