International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management: Volume 72 Issue 6

Coordination mechanisms for digital and sustainable textile supply chain

Patanjal Kumar, Dheeraj Sharma, Peeyush Pandey

Supply chain network is complicated to manage due to the involvement of a number of agents. Formation of virtual organization using Industry 4.0 (I4.0) is an approach to improve…

Lean and agile metrics. Literature review and framework for measuring leagile supply chain

Wojciech Domink Piotrowicz, Urszula Ryciuk, Maciej Szymczak

The aim of this paper is to review metrics and develop a framework for measuring leagile supply chain. Metrics that are applicable in the lean, agile and leagile strategies are…

Organizational learning, resilience and psychological empowerment as antecedents of work engagement during COVID-19

Lama Blaique, Hussein Nabil Ismail, Hazem Aldabbas

This paper aims to explore the relationship between organizational learning (OL) and work engagement (WE) in the Middle East region amid the COVID-19 pandemic and to test the…

Reflective backward analysis to assess the operational performance and eco-efficiency of two industrial districts

Andrea Appolloni, Idiano D'Adamo, Massimo Gastaldi, Morteza Yazdani, Davide Settembre-Blundo

The best strategy to apply for the future cannot disregard a careful analysis of the past and is the one capable of seizing opportunities from outside. Manufacturing sectors are…

A conceptual framework for operational performance measurement in wholesale organisations

Faris Odeh Al Majali

Performance measurement involves gaining useful information about performance. The purpose is to develop a conceptual framework to assist wholesale managers in selecting useful…

The impact of performance-based rewards and developmental performance appraisal on innovation: the mediating role of innovative work behaviour

Motasem M. Thneibat, Rateb J. Sweis

The aim of this paper is to study and empirically test the relationship between employees' perceptions of the two motivation-enhancing human resource management (HRM) practices of…

Supply chain performance measurement through collaborative effectiveness: an Asia–Pacific perspective

Kumaraguru Mahadevan, Arun Elias, Premaratne Samaranayake

The main purpose of this research is to investigate the supply chain performance through collaborative effectiveness, from the organisations of Asia–Pacific region perspective…

Maturity model for evaluating disaster and humanitarian operations

Híngred Ferraz Pereira Resende, Patricia Alcantara Cardoso, Tharcisio Cotta Fontainha, Adriana Leiras

This paper proposes a maturity model (MM) for assessing disaster operations and identifying strategies for organisations to evolve their maturity stages.

Lean, sustainability and the triple bottom line performance: a systems perspective-based empirical examination

Syeda Ayesha Wadood, Muhammad Shakeel Sadiq Jajja, Kamran Ali Chatha, Sami Farooq

This study draws on the systems perspective to study the individual and combined interaction effect of lean management (LM) and sustainability management (SM) on the…

Aligning the risk hedging strategy with supplier collaboration and manufacturing competitiveness: a resource-based and contingency approach

Benitha Mhoka Myamba, Winnie Samwel Nguni

The purpose of this study is to examine the alignment between the risk hedging strategy and supplier collaboration and its effect on manufacturing competitiveness.

Exploring the nexus of equality and efficiency in healthcare

Songul Cinaroglu

This study aims to explore the nexus of equality and efficiency by considering public hospitals' development dynamics, capacity and technology indicators.

Mental toughness for employees: towards conceptual clarity and scale development

Namita Ruparel, Rajneesh Choubisa, Himanshu Seth, Shubha Dubey

Time and again, scholars have emphasized the vitality of mental toughness for success in performance-oriented contexts. Despite the awareness about the significance of mental…

Performance impact of behavioural factors in alliances by SMEs: an empirical analysis

Rohit Prabhudesai, Nitin Pangarkar, Ch V.V.S.N.V. Prasad, Abhishek Kumar Sinha

This paper aims to fill a gap in the authors’ understanding of alliance-level and the partner-level alliance performance by analysing the influence of behavioural factors for…

Prioritization and ranking of lean practices: a case study

Narpat Ram Sangwa, Kuldip Singh Sangwan

The paper aims to identify, prioritize and rank lean practices in the context of an Indian automotive component manufacturing organization using interpretive ranking process (IRP…