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Outsourcing: assessing the risks and benefits for organisations, sectors and nations
Christine Harland, Louise Knight, Richard Lamming, Helen WalkerThis research aims to assess the risks and benefits of outsourcing for organisations, sectors and nations. The literature on outsourcing contains little evidence of research on…
Manufacturing performance: evaluation and determinants
Chien Leachman, C. Carl Pegels, Seung Kyoon ShinMany studies examine manufacturing performance along individual benchmarking dimensions. This study aims to develop a performance metric based on quality and output volume among…
Manufacturer‐supplier relationships: An empirical study of German manufacturing companies
Marek Szwejczewski, Fred Lemke, Keith GoffinEffective management of suppliers is one of the ways manufacturing companies can improve their performance. Typically, it has been argued in the literature that close…
Do green supply chains lead to competitiveness and economic performance?
Purba Rao, Diane HoltGreen supply chain management is a concept that is gaining popularity in the South East Asian region. For many organizations in this region it is a way to demonstrate their…
An application of a unified capacity planning system
Jalal Ashayeri, Willem SelenThis paper aims to present a unified approach for effective capacity management, with the flexibility to position the organization across differing market‐orientations, anywhere…
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- Dr Tobias Schoenherr
- Prof. Constantin Blome
- Robert D. Klassen