International Journal of Operations & Production Management: Volume 23 Issue 7

The manufacturing strategy‐capabilities links in mass customisation and agile manufacturing – an exploratory study

Steve Brown, John Bessant

This paper is based on longitudinal case studies of research into strategy formulation within six plants from large firms – three in the car industry and three from the computer…

Analysing organisational competence: implications for the management of operations

Michael A. Lewis

Despite the potential for operations management to be a competence‐based discipline, it is not clear how practical the construct is in ex ante operations strategy formulation or…

Lifting parts: putting conceptual insights into practice

Jos Benders, Sander Verlaar

An organization concept is “a more or less coherent, prescriptive vision on (aspects of) organization design”. Practitioners are often faced with the problem of how to use…

Project management concepts, methods and application

David James Bryde

This paper reports the findings of an empirical study of project management (PM) practice and of attitudes and opinions of people involved in projects in UK organisations, to…

Factors affecting location decisions in international operations – a Delphi study

B.L. MacCarthy, W. Atthirawong

Only a limited amount of research has been reported on factors influencing international location decisions for contemporary manufacturing operations. In this paper a…