Industrial Management & Data Systems: Volume 102 Issue 6

The critical factors for technology absorptive capacity

Chinho Lin, Bertram Tan, Shofang Chang

There are numerous studies concerning the key success factors for technology transfer performance, but little empirical research has been conducted on technology absorptive…

GENESYS: an expert system for production scheduling

Kostas S. Metaxiotis, John E. Psarras, Dimitris T. Askounis

Planning and scheduling are forms of decision making, which play a crucial role in manufacturing as well as in service industries. In the current competitive environment…

Crises and revolutions in information technology: lessons learned from Y2K

Alan R. Cannon, Amy B. Woszczynski

In an environment in which information technology has become a critical link between and among suppliers and customers, organizations were recently threatened by potential systems…

Plans to utilize electronic marketplaces: the case of B2B procurement markets in Norway

Petter Gottschalk, Anne Foss Abrahamsen

An electronic business to business procurement marketplace is an inter‐organizational information system through which multiple buyers and sellers interact to accomplish…

A procedure for establishing a reference state in qualitative simulation of operational systems

Duangpun Kritchanchai, Bart MacCarthy

Identifies the need for a formal procedure to generate a reference state when conducting qualitative simulation studies. A procedure for generating a reference state is presented…

Manufacturing cell formation problem: a graph partitioning approach

Hassan M. Selim

The design of a cellular manufacturing system requires that a machine population be partitioned into machine groups called manufacturing cells. A new graph partitioning heuristic…