International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management: Volume 70 Issue 1

Evaluation of lean practices in warehouses: an analysis of Brazilian reality

Caroline Morito Pereira, Rosley Anholon, Izabela Simon Rampasso, Osvaldo L.G. Quelhas, Walter Leal Filho, Luis Antonio Santa-Eulalia

This article aims to investigate the most applied lean warehouse practices in Brazilian warehouses.

Corporate sustainability and enterprise performance: The mediating effects of internationalization and networks

Štefan Bojnec, Nastja Tomšič

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the relationship between economic performance in terms of labour productivity of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and their…

Non-financial e-procurement performance measures: Their interdependence and impact on production cost

Nripendra Kumar, Kunal K. Ganguly

The purpose of this research paper is to identify the non-financial e-procurement performance measures and find out whether these non-financial performance measures are leading…

Criticality assessment of the barriers to Lean Construction

Aline Patricia Mano, Sergio E. Gouvea da Costa, Edson Pinheiro de Lima

The purpose of this study seeks to identify the critical barriers for the deployment of Lean Construction (LC).

Performance appraisal, justice and organizational effectiveness: a comparison between two universities

Kurmet Kivipõld, Kulno Türk, Lea Kivipõld

The purpose of this paper is to identify how the design of a performance appraisal system (PAS) affects the perceived justice of academic employees (AE) about their performance…

Integration of TTF and network externalities for RFID adoption in healthcare industry

Vicky Ching Gu, Ken Black

Despite the extensive adoption of radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology across many industry supply chains, the extent of adoption in healthcare is far behind the…

Impact of transactional, relational and balanced contract on affective commitment: Meaningful work as mediator

Nishant Singh, Harsha Tyagi, Umesh Bamel

This paper is aimed at examining the impact of three types of psychological contracts such as transactional, relational and balanced contract on affective commitment by keeping…

The mechanism behind informational fairness and project performance relationship: evidence from Pakistani construction organizations

Sumreen Masood Khattak, Muhammad Zahid Iqbal, Malik Ikramullah, Muhammad Mustafa Raziq

This study examines the relationship between employees' perceptions of informational fairness and project performance. Furthermore, it examines if this relationship is…

Working capital management, firm performance and nature of business: An empirical evidence from India

Kumar Sanjay Sawarni, Sivasankaran Narayanasamy, Kanagaraj Ayyalusamy

This paper aims to investigate the impact of the efficiency of working capital management (WCM) on the performance of a sample of Indian companies and explore how the nature of…

Effects of green human resource management: testing a moderated mediation model

Richa Chaudhary

The purpose of this paper is to examine organizational attractiveness as a mechanism through which adoption of green human resource management (GHRM) practices affects potential…

Enhancing voice of customer prioritisation in QFD by integrating the competitor matrix

Zafar Iqbal, Nigel Peter Grigg

Quality function deployment (QFD) is a quality improvement methodology using a system of interrelated matrices, where the influence of any one matrix may meaningfully change the…