Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management: Volume 35 Issue 5

An implementation model for socio-technical digital tools

Bassel Kassem, Matteo Rossini, Stefano Frecassetti, Federica Costa, Alberto Portioli Staudacher

While Digitalisation is gaining momentum among practitioners and the scientific world, there is still a struggle to embark on the digitalisation journey successfully. The…

An activity theory analysis of digital innovation orchestration in Industry 4.0

Carlos Alberto Carbajal Piña, Nuran Acur, Dilek Cetindamar

This paper explores the orchestration of digital innovation in Industry 4.0 organisations.

Investigating the impact of smart manufacturing and interconnected emerging technologies in building smarter supply chains

Prajakta Chandrakant Kandarkar, V. Ravi

Industry 4.0 has put forward a smart perspective on managing supply chain networks and their operations. The current manufacturing system is primarily data-driven. Industries are…

Assessing the impact of big data analytics capability on radical innovation: is business intelligence always a path?

Weiwei Wu, Yang Gao, Yexin Liu

This study examines the mediating roles of the three dimensions of business intelligence (sensing capability, transforming capability and driving capability) in the relationship…

Demystifying operator 4.0 through an integrative framework

Bella Belerivana Nujen, Deodat Mwesiumo, Erlend Alfnes, Tore Tomasgard

Despite increased interest in the Operator 4.0 concept, there has been scarce attention on practice-oriented frameworks that can assist firms in reaping the potential benefits of…

Social media and sustainable innovation in manufacturing firms: a dynamic capability perspective

Jiawen Chen, Hua Yang, Linlin Liu

With social media usage growing rapidly in business sustainability in manufacturing sectors, the means through which manufacturing firms can incorporate it into the pursuit of…

Shirking in supply chain collaborations: do circular economy entrepreneurship and technical capability moderate impacts for circular economy performance?

Anita Rijal, Charles Baah, Yaw Agyabeng-Mensah, Ebenezer Afum, Innocent Senyo Kwasi Acquah

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in emerging economies are encouraged to form supply chain collaborations (SCC) for better circular economy (CE) performance. Yet, the…

Exploring the linkages among green digital transformation capability, ambidextrous green learning and sustainability performance: a case study of manufacturing firms in Taiwan

Chih-Hsuan Huang, Yi-Chun Huang

This study proposes an innovative concept of green digital transformation capability (GDTC) and explores the interrelationships among GDTC, ambidextrous green learning (AGL) and…