... such as the SC and value chain (VC). Italy Small to medium‐sized enterprises Process management Managerialism Business development Organizational networks Management processes Virtual development office In the contemporary business environment, an enterprise's competitiveness is dependent...

.... © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Italy Oil industry Gas industry Operations and production management Product‐service system Design Methodologies Oil and gas industry The term servitization has been introduced by Vandermerwe and Rada (1988) in the late 1980s...

... Fashion industry Italy The increasing need to improve supply chain (SC) performance has been forcing warehouses to focus on integrating the production effort with the market (Frazelle, 2002 ; Baker, 2007). Receiving, transferring, handling, storage, packing, and expediting operations...

... innovation Case studies Italy In the last few years product innovation (PI) literature has progressively highlighted the importance of knowledge management (KM) as a main source of long‐term competitive advantage. The diffusion of new organisational models based on distributed teams and cross...

... as inventory buffer of radiant and collector tubes, interfering with material handling equipment. This area could be utilized to install new machines. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Process re‐engineering Manufacturing Italy The complexity of modern production systems and the performance...

... was carried out on 47 SMEs in northern and central Italy, operating in the mechanical and engineering industries, which have adopted at least a CAD system. The methodological approach used is the multiple‐case study, which revealed the most suitable one, both because of the organizational phenomenon...

... capacity to innovate and innovation itself. The value of the framework is demonstrated as it is applied in an exploratory study of the perceptions of public policy makers and managers from two European regions – the Veneto Region in Italy and the East of England in the UK. Amongst other things, the data...

... Employment Flexibility Italy Small‐to medium‐sized enterprises Work design Automation is an ancient word in the economic jargon but its meaning and scope has recently and radically changed with rigid automation being replaced by a new, flexible way of automating the production process...