International Journal of Operations & Production Management: Volume 24 Issue 6

The role of risk in environment‐related supplier initiatives

Paul D. Cousins, Richard C. Lamming, Frances Bowen

This paper extends previous literature on the greening of supply chains by giving explicit consideration to two main areas – the role of risk, and the motives for undertaking…

Adoption and diffusion in technology implementation: a supply chain study

Damien Power, Alan Simon

A survey of 553 Australian companies was conducted for the purpose of determining some of the primary characteristics of organisations actively implementing supply chain…

Analytic hierarchy process helps evaluate project in Indian oil pipelines industry

Prasanta Kumar Dey

Conventionally, oil pipeline projects are evaluated thoroughly by the owner before investment decision is made using market, technical and financial analysis sequentially. The…

Business timeliness: the intersections of strategy and operations management

Loi Teck Hui

A compressed cycle time enables products to be manufactured more quickly and has the potential of locking in the most profitable customer. Applies time‐based process mapping…

Agile manufacturing practices in the specialty chemical industry: An overview of the trends and results of a specific case study

A. Guisinger, B. Ghorashi

The objective of this study was to examine the trends in the specialty chemical industry that have led to the rising number of agile practices and “virtual” organizations. The…