...Horatiu Cirtita; Daniel A. Glaser‐Segura Purpose Downstream supply chain (DSC) performance metrics provide a standard framework to assess internal performance. DSC performance metrics can also help balance performance tradeoffs among firms. The purpose of this paper is to develop a survey...

...G.S. Dangayach; S.G. Deshmukh Purpose This research aims to report the findings of an exploratory survey on advanced manufacturing technologies (AMTs) administered in Indian small and medium enterprises (SMEs) of automobile, electronics, machinery, and process sectors. The objective of the survey...

...Nicolaos E. Synodinos This article reviews research findings related to the “art” of constructing survey questionnaires. It discusses some of the important issues that should be considered in gathering quality data via questionnaires, provides general suggestions for their construction, includes...

...Qingjin Peng Internet technology is changing the way of product development, ranging from information gathering, product managing and commerce to product development, and maintenance. In order to obtain the evidence of the extent of Web‐based applications in industry, we did a survey to examine...

...Vic Gilgeous; Kaussar Parveen A postal survey to manufacturing managers in six different industry sectors was conducted to ascertain their views on core competencies. Questions deemed important by the literature centred on establishing the level of understanding the manufacturing managers had...