International Journal of Operations & Production Management: Volume 35 Issue 9

Making a meaningful contribution to theory

Harry Boer, Matthias Holweg, Martin Kilduff, Mark Pagell, Roger Schmenner, Chris Voss

The need to make a “theoretical contribution” is a presumed mandate that permeates any researcher’s career in the Social Sciences, yet all too often this remains a source of…

Manufacturing in the world: where next?

Louis Brennan, Kasra Ferdows, Janet Godsell, Ruggero Golini, Richard Keegan, Steffen Kinkel, Jagjit Singh Srai, Margaret Taylor

The past three decades have seen the transformation of manufacturing involving its global dispersion and fragmentation. However, a number of recent developments appear to suggest…

Absorptive capacity and mass customization capability

Min Zhang, Xiande Zhao, Marjorie A. Lyles, Hangfei Guo

– The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of a manufacturer’s absorptive capacity (AC) on its mass customization capability (MCC).

The impact of global purchasing and supplier integration on product innovation

Robin von Haartman, Lars Bengtsson

The interest in global purchasing has increased significantly in recent years, but the impact on product innovation is not well understood. The purpose of this paper is to…

Exploring technological process innovation from a lifecycle perspective

Simon Korwin Milewski, Kiran Jude Fernandes, Matthew Paul Mount

Technological process innovation (TPI) is a distinctive organizational phenomenon characterized by a firm-internal locus and underlying components such as mutual adaptation of new…

Cross-functional executive involvement and worker involvement in lean manufacturing and sustainability alignment

Annachiara Longoni, Raffaella Cagliano

Lean manufacturing has been demonstrated to increase operations and economic performance, but its alignment with environmental and social sustainability is unclear. The purpose of…

The 20th International EurOMA Conference

Brian Fynes, Paul Coughlan