International Journal of Operations & Production Management: Volume 30 Issue 2

Climbing the value chain: Strategies to create a new product development capability in mature SMEs

Hannah Noke, Mathew Hughes

Increasing productivity gaps and declining manufacturing bases create complex challenges for mature small to medium enterprises (SMEs). One solution advocated by academia is to…

Identifying key enablers to improve business performance in Taiwanese electronic manufacturing companies

Tsu‐Te Andrew Huang, Rodney Anthony Stewart, Le Chen

Integrated supplier management (ISM), new product development (NPD) and knowledge sharing (KS) practices are three primary business activities utilised to enhance manufacturers'…

Is performance measurement suitable for an extended enterprise?

Jussi Lehtinen, Tuomas Ahola

The purpose of this paper is to assess whether performance measurement literature and as a result, practical applications, models and frameworks drawing from this literature are…

Managing product variety in emerging markets

Luiz Felipe Scavarda, Andreas Reichhart, Silvio Hamacher, Matthias Holweg

The need for an efficient provision of product variety has been widely established as a means of competing in the marketplace, yet previous studies into the management of product…

Performance Management: Multidisciplinary Perspectives

James Bamford

The Third Lens: Multi‐ontology Sense‐making and Strategic Decision‐making

Tirin Na Thalang