... BY 4.0 licence . Fashion Supply chain Artificial intelligence AI Industry 4.0 Digital transformation Digitalization Interesting because: The fashion industry has historically relied on manual processes and has been slower to embrace digitalization compared to high-tech...

...Rongrong Pan; Zichao Yang Purpose This paper examines the impacts of product innovation, service innovation and synergistic innovation on firm performance and explores the moderating effect of digitalization. Design/methodology/approach This paper employs an unbalanced panel of 2,888 listed...

...Hulya Turkcan; Ali E. Akgün; Salih Zeki Imamoglu; Huseyin Ince Purpose This research focuses on the association between digitalization, servitization, and financial performance (FP) and examines the roles of resource orchestration capability (ROC) and organizational improvisation (OI...

...Wenyan Song; Xiaoyu Que Purpose This study seeks to elucidate how manufacturing firms’ structural positions in the large-scale supply chain network (SCN) and their digitalization influence innovation. It opens the “black box” of digitalization by examining its moderating effects through three...

...Morteza Ghobakhloo; Behzad Foroughi; Masood Fathi; Mostafa Al-Emran; Mohammed A. Al-Sharafi; Muhammad Faraz Mubarak Purpose This study develops and validates, through expert consensus, a framework for achieving antifragility in manufacturing by strategically integrating modern digital technologies...

...Iman Ansari; Masoud Barati; Mohammad Reza Sadeghi Moghadam; Morteza Ghobakhloo Purpose Industry 4.0 entails digitalizing organizational assets and creating interconnected infrastructure driven by digital technologies. This study aims to aid organizations in adopting Industry 4.0 through...

...Luay Jum'a; Saad Zighan; Ziad Alkalha Purpose This study aims to examine the impact of supply chain digitalization (SCD) on supply chain performance (SCP) with the integration of supply chain agility (SCA) and supply chain resilience (SCR) in manufacturing firms. Additionally, it investigates...

...Viktorija Badasjane; Mats Ahlskog; Anna Granlund; Jessica Bruch; Barrett Sauter Purpose Coordination of digital transformation within globally dispersed factories belonging to international manufacturing networks (IMNs) is essential for competitiveness. This paper explores how digital...

...Baiqing Sun; Yuze Xi Purpose Digitalization and supply chain collaboration are central to the successful servitization of manufacturing firms. However, how digitalization interacts with supply chain structure to affect servitization decisions in manufacturing firms has been understudied...

...Lorenzo Pirrone; Mark Grothkopp; Lukas Budde; Thomas Friedli Purpose Although benefits are promising, many companies face problems leveraging synergies between Lean and Digitalization at the program management level. This paper aims to identify activities to manage the boundaries of Lean...

...Yanzhe Liu; Minrui Guo; Zhongyi Han; Beata Gavurova; Stefano Bresciani; Tao Wang Purpose This study aims to investigate the impact of digital orientation (DO) on organizational resilience (OR) and explore the contingency effects of human resource slack and nature of enterprise ownership. Design...

... operations and can be a resource for researchers studying various contexts and creating company guidelines. Practical value: The ranking of the difficult can help managers to tailor expansion strategies to achieve competitive advantage. Digitalization has been pivotal in various economic...

...Linus Thomson Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate how new technology-based firms (NTBFs) overcome established notions of scale and scope through business model innovation, leveraging the value from digitalization. Design/methodology/approach The study adopts an exploratory...

...Mehmet Kırmızı; Batuhan Kocaoglu Purpose This study aims to propose a novel maturity model development framework based on design science theory utilizing qualitative and quantitative methods for empirical evidence and develops a descriptive digital transformation maturity model by using...

...Markus Lassnig; Julian Marius Müller; Karin Klieber; Alexander Zeisler; Max Schirl Purpose While there are several readiness assessments regarding digital transformation (DT) and Industry 4.0 in extant literature, this study aims to contribute to (a) a better understanding of digital readiness...

... the introduction of IoT. The BPR phases they described, which were intended to serve as a demonstration of the use of BPR in the IoT domain, were aligned with the digital technology integration “path” identified by Martinez (2019) and involved the following: Since IoT is built on top of the wider knowledge...

...Birgit Andrine Apenes Solem; Marko Kohtamäki; Vinit Parida; Thomas Brekke Purpose The present study sets out to understand how a manufacturing company in the maritime industry utilized creative design principles and developed service design routines to advance digital servitization (i.e...

...Sven-Vegard Buer; Jo Wessel Strandhagen; Marco Semini; Jan Ola Strandhagen Purpose While manufacturing digitalization is currently considered an important enabler of competitive advantage, its applicability across the industrial spectrum is unclear. This paper aims to investigate the relationship...

...Krisztina Demeter; Dávid Losonci; Judit Nagy Purpose The authors’ main objective is to examine the resource alteration underlying the digital manufacturing transformation. The authors rely on the adaptation aspect of dynamic capabilities (DC) theory and their analysis shows how and why a factory...

... 2019 09 12 2019 24 01 2020 27 01 2020 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2020 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Lean Automation Industry 4.0 Lean Production Framework Lean manufacturing Digitalization Lean Automation (LA) refers...