...Beatriz Minguela-Rata; Juan Manuel Maqueira; Araceli Rojo; José Moyano-Fuentes Purpose This study aims to examine the full mediating role of supply chain flexibility (SCF) between lean production (LP) and business performance (BP) found in the previous literature. This effect negates the direct LP...

...Juan Manuel Maqueira; Luciano Romualdo Novais; Sebastian Bruque Purpose This paper aims to analyze the mediating role of Supply Chain Flexibility on the interrelationships binding Lean Production implementation, Mass Personalization and business performance. Design/methodology/approach...

...Daniel Prajogo; Mesbahuddin Chowdhury; Anand Nair; T.C.E. Cheng Purpose Buyer’s dependence on its key supplier for critical resources and capabilities is generally considered as creating a disadvantageous position for the buyer and undermining its business performance. This study aims to invoke...

... product characteristics and the different SC strategies; the link between environmental uncertainty and the different SC strategies; the impact of SC strategies on business performance; and the impact of SC strategies on innovation performance. This paper contributes to theory...

...., 2010 , 2013 ; Klueber and O’Keefe 2013). Visibility Internet of Things Business performance Closed loop supply Reverse supply chain Inefficient reverse supply chains hold significant opportunities for economic and sustainability improvements. Every day each person in the UK uses 150...

...Heather Skipworth; Janet Godsell; Chee Yew Wong; Soroosh Saghiri; Denyse Julien Purpose – This study aims to explain how supply chain alignment, which remains a major challenge for supply chains, can be achieved and its implications for business performance (BP) by testing the strengths...

... performance Organizational capability China Business performance Integration In recent years, supply chains (SCs) have received significant attention from both practitioners and academics. Supply chain management (SCM) is the systematic and strategic coordination of traditional business functions...

..., and number of product warranty claims. This study examines the relationship between business performance and factors which link supplier, internal operations, and customer. Based on the study's objectives and approaches, the following conceptual model can be drawn (Figure 1). From the above model...

... Publishing Limited 2006 Business performance Electronic commerce In today's highly changeable business environment, many companies focus on their core business activities and contract out their non‐core activities to capitalise on others' expertise. One basis for this may lie...

... of less than 50 employees, 50 to 100 employees and 100 to 500 employees. They represent 80.6 per cent of the total response rate (12.4 per cent). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Outsourcing Customer service management Business performance Outsourcing otherwise known...

...Michael Tracey; Jeen‐Su Lim; Mark A. Vonderembse Purpose The purpose of this article is to empirically test the impact of supply‐chain management (SCM) capabilities on business performance so as to determine to what degree customer‐oriented SCM issues influence competitive position...