International Journal of Operations & Production Management: Volume 34 Issue 3

Integrating financial and physical supply chains: the role of banks in enabling supply chain integration

Rhian Silvestro, Paola Lustrato

The financial supply chain, running parallel to the flow of goods and information, is common to all economic supply networks, and its integration with the physical supply chain is…

A model of functional integration and conflict: The case of purchasing-production in a construction company

Chris Ellegaard, Christian Koch

– The purpose of this article is to generate theory on how functional integration and conflict interrelate by studying the interface between production and purchasing.

Collaborative green innovation in emerging countries: a social capital perspective

Ping-Chuan Chen, Shiu-Wan Hung

The new paradigm for green innovation has already shifted to a collaborative model. This study aims to examine how environmental collaboration across organizational boundaries…

Exploring the impact of cultural values on project performance: The effects of cultural values, age and gender on the perceived importance of project success/failure factors

Maxwell Chipulu, Udechukwu Ojiako, Paul Gardiner, Terry Williams, Caroline Mota, Stuart Maguire, Yongyi Shou, Teta Stamati, Alasdair Marshall

– This study aims to explore the impact of cultural values on the importance individuals assign to project success/failure factors (PSFFs).

Multi-plant improvement programmes: a literature review and research agenda

Torbjørn H. Netland, Arild Aspelund

To advance the productivity of all plants in the network, multinational corporations develop and deploy multi-plant improvement programmes. In this paper, the authors…