International Journal of Operations & Production Management: Volume 20 Issue 9

Strategies in an era of global competition

Geoff Buxey

The Australian government welcomed globalisation and led the way with tariff reductions, claiming that many local manufacturers were inefficient and inward looking as a result of…

Selecting sourcing strategies for technological innovation: an empirical case study

Vittorio Chiesa, Raffaella Manzini, Federico Tecilla

This paper faces the problem of the decision maker who has to identify the most appropriate organisational mode for the external acquisition of a certain technology. Its objective…

JIT purchasing in the Spanish auto components industry – Implementation patterns and perceived benefits

Javier González‐Benito, Martin Spring

This paper reports empirical evidence of the implementation patterns of JIT purchasing developed by the Spanish auto components industry. An analytical framework distinguishing…

Value management: an underlying framework

Ellen J. Dumond

The concept of value management is becoming quite prevalent in industry. Despite this popularity, there is little evidence of the development of accompanying theory in the…

Local rules: their application in a kanban system

Tim Haslett, Charles Osborne

A theory of local rules was developed using Kauffman and Holland’s work on fitness landscapes. Local rules are used by individuals to increase their chances of survival on a…

Impact of business type upon the adoption of quick response technologies – The apparel industry experience

Eunju Ko, Doris Kincade, James R. Brown

The purpose of this study was to explore the impact of business type upon the adoption process for quick response (QR) technologies in the apparel industry. Using Rogers’ (1983…