International Journal of Operations & Production Management: Volume 42 Issue 11

Is supplier involvement always beneficial for financial performance? The roles of ambidextrous innovations and product smartness

Yu Wang, Tao Jia, Jinliang Chen

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the performance impact of supplier involvement, based on the knowing processes and contingencies of knowledge-based view. Ambidextrous…

Supply chain design for industrial additive manufacturing

Anne Friedrich, Anne Lange, Ralf Elbert

This study extends and refines the current knowledge on emerging supply chain designs (SCDs) for industrial additive manufacturing (AM) and manufacturing firms' rationales in…

Substitution and complementarity dynamics in configurations of sustainable management practices

Wenyan Song, Yi Hubert Han, Robert Sroufe

Previous research tends to study various sustainable management practices (SMPs) in isolation, leading to inconsistent conclusions about the effect of SMP on firm profit. This…

Analyzing technological competencies in the patent-based supplier portfolio: introducing an approach for supplier evaluation using semantic anchor points and similarity measurements

Lena L. Kronemeyer, Herbert Kotzab, Martin G. Moehrle

The purpose of this paper is the development of a patent-based supplier portfolio that can be used to evaluate and select suppliers on account of their technological competencies.

Does organizational readiness matter in lean thinking practices? An agency perspective

Adeel Akmal, Nataliya Podgorodnichenko, Richard Greatbanks, Jing A. Zhang

Extant research documents the importance of lean thinking for organizations, however, as prior research has largely focused on hard lean practices, but little is known about the…

The impact of monetary incentives and regulatory focus on worker productivity and learning in order picking

Fabio Sgarbossa, Christoph H. Glock, Eric H. Grosse, Martina Calzavara, René de Koster

In manual order picking systems, temporary workers are often employed to handle demand peaks. While this increases flexibility, it may hamper productivity, as they are usually…

Collaboration as a structural aspect of proactive social sustainability: the differential moderating role of distributive and procedural justice

Jia Jia Lim, Jing Dai, Antony Paulraj

This paper aims to adopt the strategy-structure-performance (SSP) framework to explore how proactive social strategy could motivate firms to collaborate with suppliers on social…