International Journal of Operations & Production Management articles from September 1997

International Journal of Operations & Production Management archives from September 1997

Subcontracting within the supply chain for electronics assembly manufacture.
September 1, 1997... Introduction Study of the literature on subcontracting and related issues has revealed a dearth of work in this area in the manufacturing sector[1]. This, despite recent initiatives aimed at highlighting its increasing importance in the...

An international study of quality improvement approach and firm performance.
September 1, 1997... Improving the quality of an organization's products and services is fundamental to business success. The once-held view that product or service specification is static and readily achievable is gone. Managers in world-class companies realize...

The overbooking problem in hotels with multitude tour-operators.
September 1, 1997... Introduction Overbooking in the hotel industry is practised in order to overcome the shortcomings of cancelled reservations or no-shows (fail to arrive without notice)[1]. The basic question asked under the overbooking problem is: "Given a...

Implications of business process management for operations management.
September 1, 1997... Introduction Operations management is concerned with the management of people, processes, technology and other resources in order to produce goods and services. There is a resonance from operations management into business process...

Is lean manufacture universally relevant? An investigative methodology.
September 1, 1997... Aims and background The concept and acceptance of lean manufacture as a set of principles is now fairly rooted in the literature[1-3]. The principles behind lean production are not in themselves new; many of them can be traced back to the...

An investigation of the antecedents of turnover intention for manufacturing plant managers.
September 1, 1997... Introduction While the major losses in manufacturing-sector jobs have attracted a great deal of attention in the USA the importance of well-trained and motivated employees is universally recognized as key for increasing competitiveness in...

Test and Evaluation of Complex Systems.
September 1, 1997... This book is part of a series produced by Wiley, in Measurement Science and Technology. As such, it will appeal to those readers whose academic and teaching interests are more focused on the technical rather than the managerial aspects of...

A lean and global smaller firm?
September 1, 1997... Introduction One of the important contributions of the influential book, The Machine that Changed the World, was that it integrated many of the seemingly disparate concepts previously found in the literature under the general heading "lean...

On the usability of quantitative modelling in operations strategy decision making.
September 1, 1997... Introduction Strategy issues are always highly complex, both from a technical and an organizational perspective. One well-established way of dealing with complexity has been to construct (quantified) models of the issues at stake. In the...

The linkage among management systems, practices and behaviour in successful manufacturing strategy.
September 1, 1997... Introduction The term "manufacturing strategy" has evolved over the last two decades from a definition which was both conceptually and semantically "focused" (Skinner, 1978) to one which is much more complex (Noble, 1995; Voss, 1995; Voss...

Adapting manufacturing processes for international transfer.
September 1, 1997... Introduction International business strategies frequently demand the transfer of manufacturing processes. In this paper a manufacturing process is defined as any repetitive system for producing a product, including the people, equipment,...

The firm's and its customers' views on order-winning criteria.
September 1, 1997... Introduction and research questions A firm's ability to develop, manufacture and market attractive products is fundamental in the market economy. In competition with other firms it offers its products to customers, and the customers make...

Performance trade-offs in manufacturing plants.
September 1, 1997... Introduction It is generally accepted by manufacturing managers that operations management performance has a major impact on product cost, product quality, speed of delivery and delivery reliability. However, there is only limited empirical...

Computer integrated manufacturing in German industry: aspirations and achievements.
September 1, 1997... The strategic role of manufacturing Manufacturing strategies that provide a large variety of different products with high quality and attractive prices have become crucial competitive factors. Customers expect short delivery times and...

Benchmarking and operational performance: some empirical results.
September 1, 1997... Introduction In order to understand what practices are necessary to reach world class standards, many organizations have begun to use benchmarking as a way of acquiring knowledge. Benchmarking can be defined as the search for industry best...