Benchmarking: An International Journal: Volume 26 Issue 7

Agility assessment in manufacturing companies

Masoud Rahiminezhad Galankashi, Syed Ahmad Helmi, Abd. Rahman Abdul Rahim, Farimah Mokhatab Rafiei

The purpose of this paper is to propose a framework to assess the agility of manufacturing companies.

Six Sigma with C-K theory for innovations in operational excellence: a case study

Michael Sony, Subhash Naik

Six Sigma is a well-established powerful business strategy for achieving operational excellence (OPEX). However, previous studies have suggested that the Six Sigma may negatively…

Barrier analysis of supply chain finance adoption in manufacturing companies

Aswin Alora, Mukesh K. Barua

Companies all over the world have recently started to adopt supply chain finance (SCF) solutions in their supply chains to reduce the payment defaults and simplify the bill…

Information-based quality management in reverse logistics supply chain: A systematic literature review

Ruchini Senarath Jayasinghe, Nicholas Chileshe, Raufdeen Rameezdeen

The purpose of this paper is to explore the synergies among reverse logistics supply chain (RLSC), quality management (QM) and information management (IM) concepts to enhance the…

Artificial intelligence divulges effective tactics of top management institutes of India

Surender Kumar

The performance analysis of top 50 management institutions of India is conducted to understand their efficiency in utilizing available resources. The importance of different…

Prioritizing the barriers of TQM implementation from the perspective of garment sector in developing countries

Subrata Talapatra, Md. Kutub Uddin

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relative importance of different total quality management (TQM) implementation barriers in the context of Readymade Garment (RMG…

Personal relationship and conflicts in supply chains: Exploration of buyers and suppliers in Australian manufacturing and service sector

Atif Saleem Butt, Ahmad Bayiz Ahmad

The purpose of this paper is to understand conflicts that emerge between managers of buying and supplying firms when a personal relationship (friendship, etc.) is present between…

Skill development research in India: a systematic literature review and future research agenda

Clement Cabral, Rajib Lochan Dhar

The purpose of this paper is to conduct an in-depth analysis of the literature and provide new insights on skill development research in India. Objectives in the study are…

Effect of supply chain management practices on customer development and start-up performance

Mawuli Amedofu, David Asamoah, Benjamin Agyei-Owusu

The number of entrepreneurial start-ups operating in developing countries has grown tremendously in recent years. However, research suggests that most start-ups in developing…

The triple-As supply chain competitive advantage

Javad Feizabadi, David Gligor, Somayeh Alibakhshi Motlagh

The purpose of this paper is to draw on resource orchestration theory (ROT) and resource advantage theory (RAT) to develop a measurement scale for supply chain competitive…

Building supply chain risk resilience: Role of big data analytics in supply chain disruption mitigation

Nitya Prasad Singh, Shubham Singh

The purpose of this paper is to examine how firms can develop business risk resilience from supply chain disruption events, by developing big data analytics (BDA) capabilities…

An empirical investigation of efficiency and productivity in the Indian non-life insurance market

Ashiq Mohd Ilyas, S. Rajasekaran

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the performance of the Indian non-life (general) insurance sector in terms of efficiency, productivity and returns-to-scale economies. In…

Modelling the readiness factors for agility in healthcare organization: a TISM approach

Vaishnavi V., Suresh M., Pankaj Dutta

The purpose of this paper is to identify and analyze the interactions among different readiness factors for implementing agility in healthcare organization. Total interpretive…

Implementation of marketing concept and organizational culture in SMEs in Al Buraimi – Oman

Khalid Al Badi

The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the understanding of relationship between implementation process of marketing concepts and the culture at the small- to medium-sized…