Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management: Volume 34 Issue 2

Circular supply chain practices and corporate sustainability performance: do ethical supply chain leadership and environmental orientation make a difference?

Yaw Agyabeng-Mensah, Charles Baah, Ebenezer Afum, Caleb Amankwaa Kumi

This study draws insight from the leader-member exchange theory to examine the link between supply chain ethical leadership and circular supply chain practices. This study further…

Technology, lean, quality and human resource practices in manufacturing: how does size as a contingency factor matter?

Levente Szász, Krisztina Demeter, Ottó Csíki, Réka Horváth

Taking its outset in operations management (OM) contingency research, this paper aims to investigate how firm size, as one of the most powerful explanatory factors, influences the…

Unpacking the value conversion in a circular business model: exploring the effect of competitive criteria

Graziela Darla Araujo Galvão, Paulo Sergio Scoleze Ferrer, Steve Evans, Marly Monteiro de Carvalho

This research aims to investigate the influence of the implementation of technical cycles on both captured value and shared value in the circular economy context. Moreover, it…

Blockchain technology and circular economy in the environment of total productive maintenance: a natural resource-based view perspective

Ashutosh Samadhiya, Rajat Agrawal, Anil Kumar, Jose Arturo Garza-Reyes

Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) could act as a practical approach to offer sustainability deliverables in manufacturing firms aligning with the natural resource-based view…

Role of leadership in the digitalisation of manufacturing organisations

Guilherme Tortorella, Anupama Prashar, Jiju Antony, Alejandro Francisco Mac Cawley, Roberto Vassolo, Michael Sony

This study examines the moderating role of leadership behaviours on the relationship between Industry 4.0 (I4.0) maturity and operational performance in manufacturers.

Combining internal quality-oriented product design with external supplier involvement for enhancing operational performance: the moderating role of product modularity

Mingu Kang, Ki-Hyun Um

The purpose of this study is to develop a moderated mediation model by which quality-oriented product design practices influence operational performance via supplier involvement…