International Journal of Operations & Production Management: Volume 31 Issue 9

Building factory fitness

Kasra Ferdows, Fritz Thurnheer

The purpose of this paper is to introduce the notion of fitness in production as something different from leanness and show that building fitness puts a factory on a course of…

Impact of strategic decision making for outsourcing on managing manufacturing

Rob Dekkers

The theories of transaction‐cost economics, the resource‐based view and the core competencies approach have been used extensively to justify the rationale behind strategic…

Now, let's make it really complex (complicated): A systematic review of the complexities of projects

Joana Geraldi, Harvey Maylor, Terry Williams

The purpose of this paper is to contribute to operations management (OM) practice contingency research by describing the complexity of projects. Complexity is recognised as a key…

Fitness map: a classification of internal strategic fit in service organisations

Alex Hill, Richard Cuthbertson

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between internal strategic fit and business performance, propose six classifications of internal fit using the…