... systems Performance management Agile New technology A large number of academic and practitioner publications have acknowledged that supply chain management is undergoing significant changes due to the adoption of new digital technologies (Capgemini, 2016 ; DHL, 2016 ; Wu et al., 2016...

...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. Andrew Potter can be contacted at: PotterAT@Cardiff.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Lean Strategy Agile Customer value Leagile The paper by Christopher and Towill (2000) was written at the height of the debate on the virtues and points...

...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...