International Journal of Operations & Production Management: Volume 43 Issue 3

The role of management in lean implementation: evidence from the pharmaceutical industry

Sven Januszek, Julian Macuvele, Thomas Friedli, Torbjørn H. Netland

The purpose of this study is to investigate how soft lean practices moderate the performance effects of hard lean practices. The authors provide new evidence from the…

The effects of tie strength and data integration with supply base on supply disruption ambiguity and its impact on inventory turnover

Rahul Pandey, Dipanjan Chatterjee, Manus Rungtusanatham

In this paper, the authors introduce supply disruption ambiguity as the inability of a sourcing firm to attach probability point estimates to the occurrence of and to the…

Conceptualizing sharing supply chains – lessons from an exemplary case

Christine Roussat, Valentina Carbone, Aurélien Rouquet

Over the last decade, a “new” sharing economy has emerged. So far, the supply chain literature has focused on platforms delivering crowd-logistics services that connect businesses…

Investigating contingent adoption of additive manufacturing in supply chains

Himali Patil, Suman Niranjan, Gopalakrishnan Narayanamurthy, Arunachalam Narayanan

The purpose of this research is to investigate the contingent adoption of Additive Manufacturing (AM) and propose a typology to evaluate its adoption viability within a firm's…

Organizing for permanent beta: performance measurement before vs performance monitoring after release of digital services

Kim E. van Oorschot, Henk A. Akkermans, Luk N. Van Wassenhove, Yan Wang

Due to the complexity of digital services, companies are increasingly forced to offer their services “in permanent beta”, requiring continuous fine-tuning and updating. Complexity…

Performance measurement and management systems for dealing with strategies in uncertain ecosystems

Leonardo Augusto de Vasconcelos Gomes, Flavio Hourneaux Junior, Ana Lucia Figueiredo Facin, Lorenna Fernandes Leal

Although there is a growing research stream on Performance Measurement and Management Systems (PMMS) in Ecosystems literature, current research offers limited theoretical insights…