International Journal of Operations & Production Management: Volume 19 Issue 12

Negotiating field roles in manufacturing management research: The need for reflexivity

Phil Johnson, Joanne Duberley, Paul Close, Cathy Cassell

Despite some notable exceptions, the intricacies, dilemmas and impact of manufacturing management researchers’ adoption of different field roles during data collection in…

Empirically testing the impact of manufacturing system complexity on performance

Tor Guimaraes, Nils Martensson, Johan Stahre, Magid Igbaria

As the increase in manufacturing competitiveness forces organizations to use more sophisticated and complex software, system performance depends on clever systems design…

Organisational characteristics associated with AMT adoption: Towards a contingency framework

Richard Schroder, Amrik S. Sohal

Using data collected from 132 manufacturing companies in Australia and New Zealand, this paper assesses the differences between firms in terms of advanced manufacturing technology…

Focal points in manufacturing strategic planning in Spain: Comparison with American and other European manufacturers

Lucía Avella

The aim of this work is to analyse the manufacturing strategies of the large Spanish industrial companies during the 1990s, making a comparison with the experience of American and…

The role of performance measurement in continuous improvement

T.C. Bond

A research study of both kaizen and re‐engineering programmes in a leading international company indicated that the process life cycle has four characteristic stages. A newly…

Project Management, Planning and Control Techniques (3rd ed.)

Paul Walley