International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management: Volume 67 Issue 1

Editorial

Nicky Shaw, Luisa Delfa Huaccho Huatuco

The effect of reporting quality on stock returns of listed companies on the Tehran Stock Exchange

Mahdi Salehi, Masomeh Tagribi, Shayan Farhangdoust

The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of earnings quality (as a proxy for financial reporting quality) of companies listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE) and the…

Lean readiness – the case of the European pharmaceutical manufacturing industry

Jose Arturo Garza-Reyes, Ioannis E. Betsis, Vikas Kumar, Moh’d Anwer Radwan Al-Shboul

The purpose of this paper is to assess the quality practices of European pharmaceutical manufacturers to determine the level of readiness of this industrial sector to implement…

Combining lean tools application in kaizen: a field study on the printing industry

Chi On Chan, Huay Ling Tay

The purpose of this paper is to highlight the lessons learned from two kaizen events for productivity improvement in a printing company. The paper suggests how to organize lean…

Simulation-based Six Sigma value function for system-level performance assessment and improvement

Raid Al-Aomar, Sohail Chaudhry

The purpose of this paper is to develop a simulation-based value function (VF) that combines multiple key performance indicators (KPIs) into a unified Sigma rating (SR) for…

Identification of guidelines for Hoshin Kanri initiatives

William Giordani da Silveira, Edson Pinheiro de Lima, Fernando Deschamps, Sergio E. Gouvea da Costa

The purpose of this paper is to propose a set of guidelines to be used for diagnosing and (re)designing organizational systems based on Hoshin Kanri – a management framework that…

EEUI: a new measure to monitor and manage energy efficiency in data centers

Felipe Abaunza, Ari-Pekka Hameri, Tapio Niemi

Data centers (DCs) are similar to traditional factories in many aspects like response time constraints, limited capacity, and utilization levels. Several indicators have been…

Total quality management: a critical literature review using Pareto analysis

Shweta Bajaj, Ruchi Garg, Monika Sethi

Due to its impact on business performance total quality management (TQM) has gained a lot of importance by businessmen, managers, practitioners, and research scholars over the…

Improving job performance through identification and psychological capital

Ipek Kalemci Tüzün, Fatih Çetin, H. Nejat Basim

The purpose of this paper is to increase understanding of the link between various identification foci and performance, and to test whether one’s psychological capital (PsyCap…

Quality costing and quality management maturity in Greece: An exploratory multi-dimensional data analysis

Odysseas Moschidis, Evrikleia Chatzipetrou, George Tsiotras

The purpose of this paper is to explore how the sophistication of a quality costing system depends on the quality management maturity (QMM) level in Food and Beverage (F&B…

An analysis of stock market impact from supply chain disruptions in Japan

Jiangxia Liu, Sourish Sarkar, Sanjay Kumar, Zhenhu Jin

The purpose of this paper is to explore the stock market impact of supply chain disruptions for public companies in Japan. The impact in the USA and Japan are also compared.

Could lean and green be the driver to integrate business improvement throughout the organisation?

Lara Chaplin, Simon T.J. O’Rourke

It seems to be the consensus (Zhang et al., 2012; George et al., 2003; Arumugam et al., 2013) that Lean Six Sigma (LSS) has become a beneficial improvement initiative used in a…