International Journal of Operations & Production Management: Volume 21 Issue 10

Factors in capital decisions involving advanced manufacturing technologies

Budiman Saleh, Marla Hacker, Sabah Randhawa

This paper presents an integrated framework for the selection of attributes used in the evaluation of advanced manufacturing systems. The primary focus in the development of this…

Evolving forms of manufacturing strategy development: Evidence and implications

Paul M. Swamidass, Neil Darlow, Tim Baines

This paper outlines, using evidence from several case studies, the use of alternative forms of manufacturing strategy processes. Our investigation shows that the manufacturing…

Vendor rating in purchasing scenario: a confidence interval approach

C. Muralidharan, N. Anantharaman, S.G. Deshmukh

Vendor rating is a process having strategic implications for managing a supply chain. Vendor rating can be done using analytic hierarchy process either by a single decision maker…

An empirical study of the ISO 9000 standards’ contribution towards total quality management

Katerina D. Gotzamani, George D. Tsiotras

This paper presents the results of an empirical study on the contribution of ISO 9000 standards towards total quality management (TQM). The paper is a continuation of the authors’…

Conditioned emergence: researching change and changing research

Robert MacIntosh, Donald MacLean

This paper aims to enable the operations management community to engage with concepts from the field of complexity theory and apply them to the issue of organisational…

Knowledge and IS implementation: case studies in physical asset management

Ian Hipkin

Information systems (IS) may be seen as a repository for knowledge. The challenge to practitioners is to use such technological developments as the basis for new working practices…