... into two broad domains: 30 03 2018 31 07 2018 01 10 2018 01 10 2018 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2018 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Information systems Performance management Agile New technology A large number of academic...

...Amir Qamar; Mark Hall Purpose The purpose of this paper is to robustly establish whether firms are implementing Lean or Agile production in the automotive supply chain (SC) and, by drawing on contingency theory (CT) as our theoretical lens, independently determine whether Lean and Agile firms can...

...Moh’d Anwer Al-Shboul Purpose The main purpose of this study is to examine the role of delivery dependability and time to market, on the relation between the infrastructure framework and supply chain agility. Furthermore, the impacts of supply chain agility on firm performance are examined...

... of supply chains. Further, we have identified an important construct from our detailed citation analysis. That is that the individual exploitation of such supply chain research may arise not necessarily from the final output (the migratory model) but from a critical preceding building block (lean/agile...

...Olle Olsson; Håkan Aronsson Purpose – This paper aims to explore if actions used at a hospital to manage a variable acute patient flow can be categorised using the concepts of lean, agile and leagile. Design/methodology/approach – Empirical evidence from a university hospital was gathered...

.... Research limitations/implications The new model has been tested on only two case studies, which limits the ability to generalise the findings. Future work will use the lean and agile purchasing portfolio model in research and knowledge exchange activities with other industrial partners to further develop...