Industrial Management & Data Systems: Volume 114 Issue 6

Towards strategic flexibility: social networks, climate and uncertainty

Virginia Fernández-Pérez, Francisco Javier Llorens Montes, Víctor Jesús García-Morales

The purpose of this paper is to study how the size of social networks and the strength of their ties can help CEOs acquire understanding and information from external sources to…

Internalization of ISO 9001: a longitudinal survey

Erlantz Allur, Iñaki Heras-Saizarbitoria, Martí Casadesús

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the influence of the motivation to adopt International Standards Organization (ISO) 9001 on both the internalization of the standard…

Green innovation in the automobile industry

Ru-Jen Lin, Rong-Huei Chen, Fei-Hsin Huang

Despite the stimulation provided by market demand and green issues on business performance, the exact nature of the relationships among these aspects remains an issue of…

Lean Six Sigma strategy in telecom manufacturing

Roy Andersson, Per Hilletofth, Peter Manfredsson, Olli-Pekka Hilmola

The purpose of this paper is to elaborate, how the use of a joint-use strategy of Lean and Six Sigma can improve flexibility, robustness, and agility. Telecom manufacturing has…

Managerial competencies and organizational structures

Karmen Verle, Mirko Markič, Borut Kodrič, Annmarie Gorenc Zoran

The purpose of this paper is to determine whether there is a relationship among leadership, action, social, and personal competencies of managers in modern organizational…

Understanding the determinants of mobile payment continuance usage

Tao Zhou

– The purpose of this paper is to identify the factors affecting continuance usage of mobile payment.

Research synthesis in collaborative planning forecast and replenishment

Antonio Márcio Tavares Thomé, Roberto Luis Hollmann, L.F.R.R. Scavarda do Carmo

The purpose of this research synthesis is to gather and integrate findings on Collaborative Planning Forecast and Replenishment (CPFR) as a business process and as a management…

Intention to use mobile customer relationship management systems

Heikki Karjaluoto, Aarne Töllinen, Janne Pirttiniemi, Chanaka Jayawardhena

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the behavioral intentions of business-to-business (B2B) sales managers to use mobile customer relationship management (CRM) systems in…

The effect of ISO 14001 on equity structure

Sang M. Lee, Yonghwi Noh, Donghyun Choi, Jin Sung Rha

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of ISO 14001 certification on US public firms’ equity structure regarding whether the typical heavy investment required for…