Benchmarking: An International Journal: Volume 26 Issue 6

Adoption of green practices throughout the supply chain: an empirical investigation

Kailash Choudhary, Kuldip Singh Sangwan

There is a dichotomy in the actual and expected environmental performances of the Indian enterprises even though the Indian enterprises have aligned their businesses with intended…

Impact of different sources of credit in creating extreme farmer distress in India

Bhavna Pandey, Prabir Bandyopadhyay, Alain Guiette

According to the published report by the National Sample Survey 2014 the data says that the incidence of indebtedness among households in the rural areas of Maharashtra, India, is…

Self-efficacy and workplace well-being: moderating role of sustainability practices

Sanjay Kumar Singh, Rabindra Kumar Pradhan, Nrusingh Prasad Panigrahy, Lalatendu Kesari Jena

How psychological variables especially self-efficacy plays significant role to attain workplace well-being is yet to be explained. The extant literature calls for further research…

Semantic key phrase-based model for document management

Prafulla Bafna, Dhanya Pramod, Shailaja Shrwaikar, Atiya Hassan

Document management is growing in importance proportionate to the growth of unstructured data, and its applications are increasing from process benchmarking to customer…

Analyzing the influence of job satisfaction on hostage employee loyalty in Isfahan Province Gas Company

Afshin Jahanbazi Goujani, Arash Shahin, Ali Nasr Isfahani, Ali Safari

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the influence of job satisfaction on hostage employee loyalty in Isfahan Province Gas Company (IPGC).

Humanitarian supply chain management frameworks: A critical literature review and framework for future development

Sachin Agarwal, Ravi Kant, Ravi Shankar

The purpose of this paper is to examine and compare extant framework in humanitarian supply chain management (HSCM) and to propose a framework on humanitarian supply chain (HSC…

Moderating role of employee engagement on conflict–politics relationship

Poonam Mishra, Amitabh Deo Kodwani

The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between relationship conflict and the perception of organization politics (POP) and the moderating role of employee…

Benchmarking of Six Sigma in telecom services

Doraid Dalalah

The purpose of this paper is to assess and benchmark Six Sigma strategies in services sector, namely, the telecom field, by establishing tables of fallouts of non-conforming…

Assessing innovativeness of manufacturing firms using an intuitionistic fuzzy based MCDM framework

Sanjay Kumar, Abid Haleem, Sushil

The purpose of this paper is to provide a framework for assessing the overall innovativeness of manufacturing firms using a multi-attribute group decision-making methodology.

Performance relevance of environmental and social disclosures: The role of foreign ownership

Neha Saini, Monica Singhania

The purpose of this paper is to establish the relationship between environmental‒social disclosure scores and corporate financial performance. The authors tried to investigate the…

Lean readiness within emergency departments: a conceptual framework

Mohamad Alnajem, Jose Arturo Garza-Reyes, Jiju Antony

The purpose of this paper is to develop a framework to assess the lean readiness within emergency departments (EDs) and identify the key quality practices deemed essential for…

Social isolation: development and validation of measures

Sushant Ranjan, Rama Shankar Yadav

The purpose of this paper is to develop and empirically validate items on social isolation. The comprehensive literature review of existing studies on the measures of social…

Benchmarking the Lean Six Sigma performance measures: a balanced score card approach

Shruti J. Raval, Ravi Kant, Ravi Shankar

The purpose of this paper is to develop the balance score card (BSC) approach based Lean Six Sigma (LSS) performance measurement system and investigate the critical measures…

An integral GSCM index for assessment of environmental performance in manufacturing companies

Mariana Trujillo-Gallego, William Sarache

From the green supply chain management (GSCM) approach, the purpose of this paper is to propose a green index as a benchmarking tool to assess environmental performance in…

The Baldrige Award’s falling fortunes

David Cook, Weiyong Zhang

The purpose of this paper is to explore two explanations for the Baldrige Award’s decline. The management fashion literature suggests that it is a waning management fad, and the…

Diversification-based learning simulated annealing algorithm for hub location problems

Himanshu Rathore, Shirsendu Nandi, Peeyush Pandey, Surya Prakash Singh

The purpose of this paper is to examine the efficacy of diversification-based learning (DBL) in expediting the performance of simulated annealing (SA) in hub location problems.

Cause-related marketing: an exploration of new avenues through conjoint analysis

Kushagra Kulshreshtha, Naval Bajpai, Vikas Tripathi, Gunjan Sharma

Cause-related marketing (CrM) is one of the effective marketing concepts which draw high public exposure and make the cause and the organization known in the market. Further, it…

Top management commitment, corporate social responsibility and green human resource management: A Malaysian study

M.-Y. Yusliza, Nurul Aimi Norazmi, Charbel José Chiappetta Jabbour, Yudi Fernando, Olawole Fawehinmi, Bruno Michel Roman Pais Seles

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the relationship between top management commitment, corporate social responsibility (CSR) and green human resource management (GHRM).