Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management: Volume 25 Issue 8

A method for generating strategy maps using ANP

Luis Ernesto Quezada and, Pedro Ivan Palominos, Rosa E. Galleguillos, Alexis H. Olmedo

– The purpose of this paper is to present a method for identifying causal relationships in a strategy map.

Green supply chain management: Drivers, barriers and practices within the Brazilian automotive industry

Everton Drohomeretski, Sergio Gouvea da Costa, Edson Pinheiro de Lima

The purpose of this paper is to identify the main motivating factors and difficulties in implementing GSCM; and to describe and explain how GSCM is being adopted in the Brazilian…

The newly created Publicly Available Specification (PAS 141) for reusable electrical/electronic products: Goals and research needs for successful uptake

Joao Quariguasi-Frota-Neto, Andrew Reade, Azadeh Dindarian, Andrew Gibson

In 2011, a governmental initiative driven by the Department for Business Innovation and Skills invited the British Standards Institute (BSI) to write and publish a publicly…

The impact of operations and maintenance practices on power plant performance

Shyong Wai Foon, Milé Terziovski

– The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of operations and maintenance (O&M) practices, individually and collectively, on power plant performance.

External technology acquisition of SMEs in the engineering industry of Bangalore: What prompts them to move faster for acquisition?

M.H. Bala Subrahmanya

The purpose of this paper is to ascertain: first, India's public policy support for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) for external technology acquisition (ETA); second…

Development of a structural model of environmentally conscious manufacturing drivers

Varinder Kumar Mittal, Kuldip Singh Sangwan

Manufacturing firms consume energy and natural resources in highly unsustainable manner and release huge amounts of green house gases leading to many economic, environmental and…

Potential of virtual-social-physical convergence for project manufacturing

Stephen Fox

The purpose of this paper is to provide an analysis of how virtual-social-physical (VSP) convergence can affect different types of project manufacturing. In particular, VSP…

Evaluating sustainability in the UK fast food supply chain : Review of dimensions, awareness and practice

Alireza Shokri, David Oglethorpe, Farhad Nabhani

– The purpose of this paper is to investigate the level of concern and practice of sustainability development and also policy failure in the fast food supply chain.

Reviewers April 2013 to March 2014