Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management: Volume 32 Issue 8

Demand-pull vs supply-push strategy: the effects of organizational structure on supply chain integration and response capabilities

Ai-Hsuan Chiang, Ming-Yuan Huang

Rapid response is often the cornerstone of success in many industries, especially manufacturing. In the authors’ opinion, organizational structure will also affect the…

Translating transparency into value: an approach to design IoT solutions

Michele Colli, Jonas Nygaard Uhrenholt, Ole Madsen, Brian Vejrum Waehrens

This research proposes and demonstrates a framework that can be used to systematically address the idiosyncratic design of Internet of Things (IoT)-based solutions, and to match…

Digital transformation success under Industry 4.0: a strategic guideline for manufacturing SMEs

Morteza Ghobakhloo, Mohammad Iranmanesh

The digital transformation under Industry 4.0 is complex and resource-intensive, making a strategic digitalization guideline vital to small and medium-sized enterprises' success…

Nexus between lean operations, eco-product innovativeness, social, green and business performances: an empirical evidence from Ghanaian manufacturing SMEs

Ebenezer Afum, Yuan Gao, Yaw Agyabeng-Mensah, Zhuo Sun

This paper explores the nexus between lean operations, eco-product innovativeness, social performance, green performance and business performance. Both direct and indirect effects…

SMEs innovating in collaborative networks: how does absorptive capacity matter for innovation performance in times of good partnership quality?

Lamiae Benhayoun, Néstor Fabián Ayala, Marie-Anne Le Dain

We investigate the impact of Absorptive Capacity (ACAP) for SMEs embedded in Collaborative Networks (CNs) on innovation performance, considering the network stages and the…