Table of contents - Special issue on the EurOMA 2013 Conference
Guest Editors: Professor Brian Fynes and Professor Paul Coughlan
Making a meaningful contribution to theory
Harry Boer, Matthias Holweg, Martin Kilduff, Mark Pagell, Roger Schmenner, Chris VossThe need to make a “theoretical contribution” is a presumed mandate that permeates any researcher’s career in the Social Sciences, yet all too often this remains a source of…
Manufacturing in the world: where next?
Louis Brennan, Kasra Ferdows, Janet Godsell, Ruggero Golini, Richard Keegan, Steffen Kinkel, Jagjit Singh Srai, Margaret TaylorThe past three decades have seen the transformation of manufacturing involving its global dispersion and fragmentation. However, a number of recent developments appear to suggest…
Absorptive capacity and mass customization capability
Min Zhang, Xiande Zhao, Marjorie A. Lyles, Hangfei Guo– The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of a manufacturer’s absorptive capacity (AC) on its mass customization capability (MCC).
The impact of global purchasing and supplier integration on product innovation
Robin von Haartman, Lars BengtssonThe interest in global purchasing has increased significantly in recent years, but the impact on product innovation is not well understood. The purpose of this paper is to…
Exploring technological process innovation from a lifecycle perspective
Simon Korwin Milewski, Kiran Jude Fernandes, Matthew Paul MountTechnological process innovation (TPI) is a distinctive organizational phenomenon characterized by a firm-internal locus and underlying components such as mutual adaptation of new…
Cross-functional executive involvement and worker involvement in lean manufacturing and sustainability alignment
Annachiara Longoni, Raffaella CaglianoLean manufacturing has been demonstrated to increase operations and economic performance, but its alignment with environmental and social sustainability is unclear. The purpose of…
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0144-3577e-ISSN:
1758-6593ISSN-L:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditors:
- Dr Tobias Schoenherr
- Prof. Constantin Blome
- Robert D. Klassen