Industrial Management & Data Systems: Volume 100 Issue 6

An algorithm for handling exceptional elements in cellular manufacturing systems

David S. Ang

The paper develops an algorithm for eliminating bottleneck parts in a cellular manufacturing setting. Bottlenecks are eliminated by determining the machine duplication pattern…

Interfirm collaboration and the new product development process

Hamieda Parker

This study investigated the issue of collaboration in new product development within the context of the South African textile and clothing industry. The following aspects were…

Manufacturing capability development in a changing business environment

Lynn Ling X. Li

This study has empirically tested the relationships between business environment, manufacturing capability and performance using a sample of Chinese manufacturers. The results of…

Diffusion of executive information systems in organizations and the shift to Web technologies

Choton Basu, Sandra Poindexter, James Drosen, Theo Addo

Executive information systems (EIS) have certain unique characteristics that differentiate them from other information systems in both their development and diffusion patterns…

Supporting new product development with the Internet

Vince Howe, Richard G. Mathieu, Jim Parker

Accelerating the process by which new products are introduced to the marketplace has become a strategic imperative in many markets. An emerging precondition for new‐product…

Technology Transfer and Industrial Change in Europe

Helen Lawton Smith

Thriving in the office jungle

Learning to Succeed in Business, with Information Technology

Tim Lane, David Snow, Peter Labrow