International Journal of Operations & Production Management: Volume 22 Issue 6

The moderating effect of buyer‐supplier relationships on quality practices and performance

Brian Fynes, Chris Voss

This paper contributes to, and links the areas of quality management and buyer‐supplier relationships. In doing so, we seek to address two broad research questions. To what extent…

Supply chain management: a strategic perspective

Keah Choon Tan, Steven B. Lyman, Joel D. Wisner

Many leading firms in the USA have adopted an integrated strategic approach to purchasing and logistics management known as supply chain management. As the twenty‐first century…

Greening the supply chain: a new initiative in South East Asia

Purba Rao

As has been widely observed nowadays, a major part of the world’s manufacturing will be taking place in South East Asia in the coming decade. This would create many opportunities…

Virtually co‐located product design teams: Sharing teaming experiences after the event?

Sudi Sharifi, Kulwant S. Pawar

The adoption of a team approach in new product design, particularly in recent years, has shaped the nature and context of design activities. Concepts of teaming and team building…

Organizing for continuous improvement: Structures and roles in automotive components plants

Rick Delbridge, Harry Barton

This paper reports some preliminary findings from a research project on the management of problem solving and continuous improvement in UK and US first tier automotive component…

Measuring the operational performance of a public transit company

Celik Parkan

This paper reports a study that was carried out to obtain comprehensive performance ratings to gauge the productive and service quality performance of a public transit company…