International Journal of Operations & Production Management: Volume 24 Issue 9

Improving inter‐functional coordination to face high product variety and frequent modifications

Pamela Danese, Pietro Romano

In an effort to better respond to heterogeneous customer needs, an increasing number of companies in different sectors deal with the combination of high variety and frequent…

Emergent change and planned change – competitors or allies?: The case of XYZ construction

Bernard Burnes

In a fast‐moving and unpredictable world, there can be little doubt that organizational change is one of the most important issues facing organizations. This is especially so…

A conceptual synergy model of strategy formulation for manufacturing

Kit Fai Pun

With the increasing level of competition in many competitive environments, a body of research regards the ability to formulate and implement a formulated strategy as an equally…

The role of a manufacturing audit in crafting the production system

Rafael Menda

Analyzing and changing important operations strategic dimensions to meet the requirements of the firm's business strategy is an essential part of an operations executive's role…

Critical success factors in UK budget hotel operations

Bob Brotherton

This study explores the nature of critical success factors (CSFs) in UK budget hotel operations through a questionnaire survey designed to ascertain the relevance and importance…