... Limited 2024 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Plant roles International manufacturing network Company-specific Empirical research Interesting because: Manufacturers are increasingly operating networks of globally distributed factories, yet managers often...

... technology area. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 Waste reduction Empirical research Lean manufacturing Industry competitiveness The concept of lean manufacturing (LM) was originated at Toyota plant, Japan after the Second World War as a manufacturing strategy to minimize...

...Gunjan Soni; Rambabu Kodali Purpose The purpose of this paper is to review the extant literature on empirical research in supply chain management (SCM). It provides a comprehensive assessment of research methodology of 619 empirical research articles on SCM published between 1994 and 2009...