International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management: Volume 73 Issue 5

Expanding strategic flexibility through organizational culture, industry 4.0 and market orientation

Dimitrios Kafetzopoulos, Anastasia A. Katou

The purpose of this study is to build a theory on management investigating the relationship between organizational culture and strategic flexibility in firms, and how this…

A weighted fuzzy Petri-net analysis for Indian foodgrains supply chain

Rishabh Rathore, Jitesh Thakkar, J.K. Jha

This paper investigates the overall system risk for a foodgrains supply chain capturing the interrelationship among the risk factors and the effect of risk mitigation strategies.

Evaluating and improving the performance of retailers' branches by considering resilience, sustainability and sales-marketing

Ehsan Aghakarimi, Hamed Karimi, Amir Aghsami, Fariborz Jolai

Considering the direct impact of retailers' performance on the economy, this paper aimed to propose a comprehensive framework to evaluate the performance of different branches of…

When bad things happen to good processes: a theory of entropy for process science

Brad C. Meyer, Daniel Bumblauskas, Richard Keegan, Dali Zhang

This research fills a gap in process science by defining and explaining entropy and the increase of entropy in processes.

Industry 4.0 impacts on operational and green innovation performances with the mediation of green practices

Muhammad Talha Khan, Muhammad Dawood Idrees, Yaseen Haider

The aim of this study is to investigate how green supply chain management (GSCM) practices mediate the effect of Industry 4.0 technologies on operational and green innovation…

Compliance with government and firm's own policy, reverse logistics practices and firm environmental performance

Matthew Kalubanga, Winfred Mbekeka

This study examines how compliance with government and firm's own policy and reverse logistics practices relate with firm environmental performance.

Activity sampling in the construction industry: a review and research agenda

Tsu Yian Lee, Faridahanim Ahmad, Mohd Adib Sarijari

Activity sampling is a technique to monitor onsite labourers' time utilisation, which can provide helpful information for the management level to implement suitable labour…

Lean Six Sigma and Industry 4.0 – a bibliometric analysis and conceptual framework development for future research agenda

G. Citybabu, S. Yamini

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the research landscape of LSS 4.0 papers published in two well-known repositories, Scopus and Web of Science (WoS), in terms of…

Orientation and absorptive capacity towards sustainability: a missing link between sustainability and performance

Naimatullah Shah, Nisren Farouk Moawad, Mitho Khan Bhatti, Nadia A. Abdelmegeed Abdelwahed, Bahadur Ali Soomro

This study investigates economic sustainability through orientation and absorptive capacity.

Self-concept and job performance: the mediating role of resilience

Deepanjana Varshney, Nirbhay Krishna Varshney

Organizations in today's changing environment face significant challenges, requiring continual innovation. Understanding oneself from the employee's perspective is paramount…

Linking big data analytics capability and sustainable supply chain performance: mediating role of innovativeness, proactiveness and risk taking

Syed Awais Ahmad Tipu, Kamel Fantazy

Drawing on the dynamic capability view (DCV), the current study aims to examine the mediating effects of entrepreneurial orientation (EO), in terms of innovativeness…

High-performance work systems and employee attitudes: evidence from Indian healthcare industry

Karthik Padamata, Rama Devi Vangapandu

By following the “employee-centric” approach, this study aims at identifying the impact of high-performance work systems (HPWS) on specific employee attitudinal outcomes such as…

Impact of ISO 14001 and ISO 9001 adoption on corporate performance: evidence on a bank-based system

Maria Elisabete Duarte Neves, Sofia Reis, Pedro Reis, António Gomes Dias

This paper aims to analyze the impact of the adoption of ISO 14001 and ISO 9001 on the performance of Portuguese companies. The sample includes the companies listed on Euronext…

Improving relative performance evaluation process of employees within a peer group

Shantanu Shantaram Apte, Abhijit Vasant Chirputkar, Abhijeet Lele

Relative performance evaluation (RPE) is a widely practiced employee appraisal process in the services industry. In a global delivery model, teams are spread across different…