Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management: Volume 33 Issue 7

Interplay between lean management and circular production system: implications for zero-waste performance, green value competitiveness, and social reputation

Ebenezer Afum, Yiming Li, Peixiu Han, Zhuo Sun

This study explores the interplay between lean management and circular production systems and their implications on zero-waste performance, green value competitiveness and social…

Managerial perspectives on green-lean-six sigma adoption in the flexible packaging industry: empirical evidence from an emerging economy

Amna Farrukh, Sanjay Mathrani, Aymen Sajjad

This paper attempts to explore the green-lean-six sigma (GLSS) practices in the continuous process industry particularly in the flexible packaging (FP) industry in an emerging…

Leveraging the potential of a technologically heterogeneous suppliers – a dynamic approach

Andrea Gelei, Zsófia Kenesei

In today’s turbulent environment, it is important that companies effectively leverage resources available both in-house and in their interorganizational ties. The purpose of this…

Effects of inventive capabilities on new product development performance: the knowledge combination view

Luyun Xu, Xin Yin, Hong Gong, Deming Zeng

A firm's inventions provide technical information for product planning and technical support for new product development (NPD). In the knowledge-based theory, inventing is…

Selective search and new-to-market process innovation

Omid Aliasghar, Venus Kanani Moghadam

Searching for knowledge from outside firms' boundaries has been proved to be a critical strategy to develop innovation. However, the existing body of research has mainly focused…

Digital transformation maturity model development framework based on design science: case studies in manufacturing industry

Mehmet Kırmızı, Batuhan Kocaoglu

This study aims to propose a novel maturity model development framework based on design science theory utilizing qualitative and quantitative methods for empirical evidence and…

Managing bids at the engineering–commercial interface: a systems, integration and contingency perspective

Sweet Ling Adeline Wong, Shao Hung Goh

Bid management is an important presales process that involves not just pricing but also determining requirement fit and managing ambiguities. The purpose of this paper is to…

A note on bi-objective optimization for sustainable supply chain network design in omnichannel

Weidong Lei, Dandan Ke, Pengyu Yan, Jinsuo Zhang, Jinhang Li

This paper aims to correct the existing mixed integer programming (MIP) model proposed by Yadav et al. (2019) [“Bi-objective optimization for sustainable supply chain network…