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No cure for all evils: Dutch obstetric care and limits to the applicability of the focused factory concept in health care
Angele Pieters, Charlotte van Oirschot, Henk AkkermansThe purpose of this paper is to report on a study investigating the limits of the applicability of the focused factory concept (FFC) in health care. The case setting comes from…
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An investigation of the adoption and implementation of benchmarking
Dotun Adebanjo, Ahmed Abbas, Robin MannThe purpose of this paper is to use survey data collected from 453 respondents, from over 40 countries, to determine the current levels of use of benchmarking as an improvement…
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Necessary condition hypotheses in operations management
Jan Dul, Tony Hak, Gary Goertz, Chris VossThe purpose of this paper is to show that necessary condition hypotheses are important in operations management (OM), and to present a consistent methodology for building and…
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Modularity and the impact on new product development time performance: Investigating the moderating effects of supplier involvement and interfunctional integration
Pamela Danese, Roberto FilippiniThe purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of product modularity on new product development (NPD) time performance, and the moderating effects of interfunctional…
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- Dr Tobias Schoenherr
- Prof. Constantin Blome
- Robert D. Klassen