International Journal of Operations & Production Management: Volume 35 Issue 10

The role of hierarchical production planning in food manufacturing SMEs

Seamus O'Reilly, Anita Kumar, Frédéric Adam

In recent years there has been an increasing interest in make-to-stock and make-to-order combined strategies in food manufacturing operations. However, most scholarly work to-date…

How did the publication of the book The Machine That Changed The World change management thinking? Exploring 25 years of lean literature

Donna Samuel, Pauline Found, Sharon J. Williams

The purpose of this paper is to take a critical, analytical approach to explore the growth and spread of Lean through the academic and practitioner community over the last 25…

Building knowledge integration in buyer-supplier relationships: The critical role of strategic supply management and trust

Elena Revilla, Desirée Knoppen

There are two major objectives in the research. First, the authors investigate the impact of knowledge integration in terms of joint decision-making and joint sense-making, on…

Supply chain integration configurations: process structure and product newness

Christos Tsinopoulos, Carlos Mena

– The purpose of this paper is to explore the configurations of supply chain integration.

The relationship between organizational culture and quality techniques, and its impact on operational performance

Lillian Do Nascimento Gambi, Harry Boer, Mateus Cecilio Gerolamo, Frances Jørgensen, Luiz Cesar Ribeiro Carpinetti

The purpose of this paper is to investigate if a firm’s organizational culture affects the set of quality techniques it uses, and if these quality techniques affect the…