Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management: Volume 31 Issue 2

Lean manufacturing and operational performance: Interrelationships between human-related lean practices

Juan Carlos Hernandez-Matias, Jared R. Ocampo, Antonio Hidalgo, Antonio Vizan

Lean manufacturing (LM) constitutes a consolidated alternative that has been successfully used to increase company effectiveness and performance. However, different studies have…

Exploring organizational contexts on lean manufacturing and supply chain relationship

Assadej Vanichchinchai

The purpose of this paper is to explore the levels of lean manufacturing (LM) and supply chain relationships (SCR) in the manufacturing sector in Thailand, and analyze the…

Interorganizational cooperation and process innovation: The dynamics of national vs foreign location of partners

Rafael Morais Pereira, Felipe Mendes Borini, Moacir de Miranda Oliveira Jr

In this paper, the authors investigate whether the location of interorganizational partners affects the outcomes of process innovation. Herein, the term partner location refers to…

Linking firms’ life cycle, capabilities, and green innovation

Adeel Tariq, Yuosre F. Badir, Umar Safdar, Waqas Tariq, Kamal Badar

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between firms’ life cycle stages (mature vs growth) and green process innovation performance. In addition, this…

Achieving automotive suppliers’ mass customization through modularity: Vital antecedents and the valuable role and responsibility of information sharing

Qun Wu, Kun Liao, Xiaodong Deng, Erika Marsillac

Previous literature tends to combine postponement and modularity or view them as parallel factors to achieve mass customization (MC) while ignoring the sequence of a firm to…

Design, process and commercial benefits gained from AMT

José Roberto Díaz-Reza, Jorge Luis García-Alcaraz, Alfonso Jesus Gil-López, Julio Blanco-Fernández, Emilio Jimenez-Macias

The purpose of this paper is to measure the relationships between advanced manufacturing technologies (AMTs) categories (stand-alone, intermediated and integrated systems…

A method to align functionalities of a manufacturing execution system with competitive priorities

Miguel Afonso Sellitto, Elisandro João de Vargas

The purpose of this paper is to align the implementation of the manufacturing execution systems (MES) functionalities with the manufacturing competitive dimensions of two…

The impact of modular design and innovation on new product performance: The role of product newness

Hongyi Sun, Antonio Lau

The purpose of this paper is to propose a modular product design system and a product development roadmap (PDR), which can help to improve modular design (MD) and product…

Beyond direct relationships: The curvilinear relationship between supplier dependence and innovation

Dong-Young Kim

The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether supplier dependence is related to innovation in supplier firms. Drawing on resource dependence theory, the authors hypothesized…

The moderating role of organizational environments on the relationship between inventory leanness and venture survival in Chinese manufacturing

Xinyu Wang, Yu Lin, Yingjie Shi

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between inventory leanness and venture survival, and demonstrate the role of organizational environments in moderating…