International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management
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Modelling the enablers of industry 4.0 in the Indian manufacturing industry
Vineet Jain, Puneeta AjmeraThe vision of Industry 4.0 concept is to create smart factories that will change the current processes of production and manufacturing system using smart machines to…
Improving research labs’ performance through project management guidelines: a case study analysis
Marco Antonio Pacheco Junior, Rosley Anholon, Izabela Simon Rampasso, Walter Leal FilhoThe article aims to critically analyze the project management developed by research laboratories of a Brazilian university in order to enhance their performance. For this…
Factors leading to design changes in Jordanian construction projects
Lina Ghazi Gharaibeh, Sandra T. Matarneh, Mazen Arafeh, Ghaleb SweisThe problem of design changes in the construction industry is common worldwide, and the Jordanian market is no exception. The purpose of this paper is to identify the…
Do green knowledge and attitude influence the youth's green purchasing? Theory of planned behavior
George Kofi Amoako, Robert Kwame Dzogbenuku, Aidatu AbubakariThe paper examines the role of green knowledge and green attitude in purchasing behavior of the youth in Ghana. This study focuses on investigating how green value and…
Benchmarking the efficiency model for working capital management: data envelopment analysis approach
Himanshu Seth, Saurabh Chadha, Satyendra SharmaThis paper evaluates the working capital management (WCM) efficiency of the Indian manufacturing industries through data envelopment analysis (DEA) and empirically…
Influence of empowerment, psychological contract and employee engagement on voluntary turnover intentions
Sandhya S, Sulphey M MThe purpose of the study is to explore the influence of psychological empowerment, psychological contract and employee engagement on voluntary turnover intentions of…
Identification of drivers of employee engagement in Indian power companies
Samarendra Kumar Mohanty, Arunprasad PThe purpose of this paper is to extend the scope of social exchange theory (SET) to explore employee engagement and test its application in the context of Indian power…
Task satisfaction: the effect of relative performance information versus outcome feedback
Robert Marley, Lee KerstingIn this empirical study, the primary aim is to examine whether the type of feedback provided, relative performance information (RPI) vs outcome, affects individual's task…
Green human resource management, corporate social responsibility and customer relationship management: relationship analysis in the Brazilian context
Wesley Ricardo de Souza Freitas, Jorge Henrique Caldeira Oliveira, Adriano Alves Teixeira, Nelson Oliveira StefanelliThis paper aims to analyze green human resource management's (GHRM’s) relationships with corporate social responsibility (CSR) and customer relationship management in…
How is responsible leadership related to the three-component model of organisational commitment?
Amlan Haque, Mario Fernando, Peter CaputiThe increasing number of corporate scandals and averseness to employee commitment have brought the concept of responsible leadership (RL) to the forefront of…
Corporate governance mechanisms and corporate performance of firms in Nigeria and Ghana
Martha Coleman, Mengyun WuThis study investigates the impact of corporate governance (CG) mechanisms with inclusion of compliance and diligence index on corporate performance (CP) of firms in…
Factors influencing swift and effective resolution of supplier problems
Rebecca Clemons, Swathi Reddy Baddam, Raymond M. HenryHow might an organization swiftly resolve supplier problems such that the issue does not reoccur? The purpose of this study seeks to understand the impact of different…
A study on the factors affecting household solar adoption in Kerala, India
Chandan Parsad, Shashank Mittal, Raveesh KrishnankuttyRecent research on the energy system highlights the need for understanding the bandwidth of drivers and inhibitors of household investor's behaviour in rooftop PV (or…
Role of employee relations and HRM in driving commitment to sustainability in MSME firms
Mridul Maheshwari, Arbind Samal, Vaibhav BhamoriyaThe purpose of this study is to explore the role of employee relations and human resource management (HRM) practices on firms' commitment to sustainability in the context…
Contract design and supplier performance: an empirical investigation using multi-criteria, decision analysis
Ilias VlachosThis study aims to investigate how contract design influences supplier performance. This study synthesises three theoretical views (efficiency, relational, contingency…
Improving productivity of a financial firm: business model evolution in the Caribbean
David W. Parker, William W. LawrenceThis study explores the role of business model as a state variable during transformation of a financial institution to become a multinational enterprise. Prior studies of…
Green service production in healthcare and role of value chain flexibility
Pradeep KumarThis paper aims to understand the specific role of value chain flexibility (VCF) in the strategies of green service production (GSP) in healthcare. The study explores the…
Criticality assessment of the barriers to Lean Construction
Aline Patricia Mano, Sergio E. Gouvea da Costa, Edson Pinheiro de LimaThe purpose of this study seeks to identify the critical barriers for the deployment of Lean Construction (LC).
Performance management in logistics outsourcing: a study on sugar-energy industry
Alexandre Simon, Herbert Scheidl, Renan Stenico Campos, Gleison MatanaThis paper analyzes managerial practices currently used for outsourced logistics activities in mechanized cutting, loading and transportation (CLT) of sugarcane in a…
Exploring the influence of religious elements on performance factors in developing countries: a case of the Ghanaian construction industry
Ernest Kissi, Kofi Agyekum, Theophilus Adjei-Kumi, Debrah Caleb, Ekow Donkor MichealReligiousness is evident in every aspect of life, and its impact on construction project performance is undeniable. However, little has been done to fully understand the…
Influence of financial architecture, intangible assets on financial performance and corporate value in the Indonesian capital market
I. Wayan Widnyana, I. Gusti Bagus Wiksuana, Luh Gede Sri Artini, Ida Bagus Panji SedanaThis study aims to analyze and explain the effect of financial architecture (with three dimensions: ownership structure, capital structure and corporate governance) and…
The mechanism behind informational fairness and project performance relationship: evidence from Pakistani construction organizations
Sumreen Masood Khattak, Muhammad Zahid Iqbal, Malik Ikramullah, Muhammad Mustafa RaziqThis study examines the relationship between employees' perceptions of informational fairness and project performance. Furthermore, it examines if this relationship is…
Applying conventional agency theory to prediction of employee self-reporting performance behaviour
Randolph Nsor-AmbalaThe purpose of this study is to test various hypotheses regarding if managers' voluntarily prefer honesty in self-reported managerial performance (HPR).
Lean construction and simulation for performance improvement: a case study of reinforcement process
Mohamed Saad Bajjou, Anas ChafiThis research seeks to evaluate the impact of applying lean construction principles on the performance of reinforcement operations using a discrete-event simulation (DES) approach.
Is performance evaluation gendered for behavioural dimension?
Rachana ChattopadhyayResearches have already pointed out the linkage between pro-male bias and performance evaluation system. The main aim of this study is to understand how far different…
Robust malmquist productivity measurement: evidence from Spanish hotel industry during the Great Recession
Nickolaos G. TzeremesThe purpose of this paper is to provide a robust version of the Malmquist Productivity Index (MPI) in order to evaluate hotels' productivity levels during the Great Recession.
Corporate sustainability and enterprise performance: The mediating effects of internationalization and networks
Štefan Bojnec, Nastja TomšičThe purpose of this paper is to analyse the relationship between economic performance in terms of labour productivity of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and…
Successful business models for service centres: an empirical analysis
Paolo Gaiardelli, Lucrezia SonginiThe purpose of this paper is to analyse the fit between the strategy of service centres and their business model (BM) and to identify the BM components' characteristics…
Validation issues of a performance management system for design: three case studies
Paula Görgen Radici Fraga, Maurício Moreira e Silva Bernardes, Julio Carlos de Souza van der Linden, Darli Rodrigues Vieira, Milena Chang ChainThis study aimed to discuss issues related to the process for validating a performance management system for design (PMSD) in three product development companies.
Candle under a bushel: communicating environmental performance to improve firm performance
Francis Fonyee Nutsugah, Thomas Anning-Dorson, Stephen Mahama Braimah, Ernest Yaw Tweneboah-KoduahThis study answers the question: “does the communication of environmental performance transmit positive overall firm performance?” The authors examine the influence of a…
How managerial coaching promotes employees' affective commitment and individual performance
Neuza Ribeiro, Tam Nguyen, Ana Patrícia Duarte, Rui Torres de Oliveira, Catarina FaustinoThis study sought to provide a more comprehensive understanding of how managers' coaching skills can affect individual performance through the mediating role of affective…
Supplier selection using hybrid multicriteria decision-making methods
Anirudh Tusnial, Satyendra Kumar Sharma, Parth Dhingra, Srikanta RoutroyThe paper develops a decision-making model for supplier selection combining quality function deployment (QFD), analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and technique for order…
How does intellectual capital efficiency affect firm performance? The moderating role of family management
Yolanda Ramírez, Julio Dieguez-Soto, Montserrat ManzanequeThe purpose of this paper is twofold: to know whether those firms that achieve greater efficiency from their intangible resources (intellectual capital) also obtain…
Supply chain collaboration in performance-based contracting: an empirical study
Hasan Uvet, Hasan Celik, Sedat Cevikparmak, Saban AdanaDespite the significant increase in the adoption of performance-based contracting (PBC) in various industries, the primary value drivers of it are still not clear…
New product development process in apparel industry using Industry 4.0 technologies
Ganguli Eranga Harshamali Wijewardhana, Samanthi Kumari Weerabahu, Julian Liyanage Don Nanayakkara, Premaratne SamaranayakeThe main purpose of this paper is to assess the technological view of apparel new product development (NPD) process through a framework for improving the efficiency of NPD…
Reverse supply chain management in manufacturing industry: a systematic review
Kaliyan Mathiyazhagan, Sonu Rajak, Swayam Sampurna Panigrahi, Vernika Agarwal, Deepa MananiIn a quest to meet increasing pressure to incorporate environmental and sustainability factors due to the legislations and growing public awareness, companies are…
An analysis of growth-accelerating factors for the Indian automotive industry using modified TISM
Abhilasha Meena, Sanjay Dhir, SushilThis study aims to identify and prioritize various growth-accelerating factors in the Indian automotive industry. It further develops a hierarchical model to examine the…
The mark of industry 4.0: how managers respond to key revolutionary changes
Erlinda N. YunusThe purpose of this study is to provide a framework of managerial responses to the Industry 4.0 phenomenon, which has impacted the productivity of Indonesian manufacturing…
An exploration of digital ride-hailing multisided platforms' market dynamics: empirical evidence from the Uber case study
Federico Cosenz, Davood Qorbani, Yokei YamaguchiThe purpose of this paper is to experiment a dynamic performance management (DPM) approach to explore and assess the business dynamics of digital ride-hailing platforms…
Revisiting environmental degradation and economic growth nexus using autoregressive distributed lag approach
Monica Singhania, Neha SainiThe paper attempts to revisit the nexus between economic growth, carbon emissions, trade openness, financial effectiveness and FDI for a sample of seven developed and…
Impact of supplier innovativeness, top management support and strategic sourcing on supply chain resilience
Santanu MandalThe purpose of this study is to explore the importance of supplier innovativeness (SI), top management support (TMS) and strategic sourcing (SS) in the development of…
A corporate sustainability maturity model for readiness assessment: a three-step development strategy
Yenny Sari, Akhmad Hidayatno, Amalia Suzianti, Markus Hartono, Harman SusantoOne of the main challenges of organisations today is how to navigate their development into ideal sustainable organisations. However, each readiness level requires a…
Non-financial e-procurement performance measures: Their interdependence and impact on production cost
Nripendra Kumar, Kunal K. GangulyThe purpose of this research paper is to identify the non-financial e-procurement performance measures and find out whether these non-financial performance measures are…
Performance indicators for measuring the effects of Smart Maintenance
Camilla Lundgren, Jon Bokrantz, Anders SkooghThe purpose of this study is to ensure productive, robust and sustainable production systems and realise digitalised manufacturing trough implementation of Smart…
Dealing with “abnormal” business growth by leveraging local area common goods: an outside-in stakeholder collaboration perspective
Carmine Bianchi, Vincenzo VignieriThe purpose of this paper is to illustrate how for a business located in a local area that does not portray the characteristics of the “Silicon Valley” stereotype…
Effect of SCF on automobile industry performance during sales promotional schemes
Sricharan Chirra, Dinesh KumarIn today's competitive market subject to various uncertainties, supply chain flexibility (SCF) arose as a potential weapon to enhance the firm's performance. This paper…
Is more really better? Performance measure variety and environmental uncertainty
Pall Rikhardsson, Stefan Wendt, Auður Arna Arnardóttir, Throstur Olaf SigurjónssonThis paper asks the question of whether more environmental uncertainty affects the design of performance measurement systems in terms of a greater variety of performance…
An empirical investigation of supply chain operations reference model practices and supply chain performance: Evidence from manufacturing sector
Sri Yogi Kottala, Kotzab HerbertThe purpose of this paper is to develop and validate a scale measurement of supply chain operations reference (SCOR)-related performance indicators and proposed…
Investigating the interplays between integrated reporting practices and circular economy disclosure
Federico Barnabè, Sarfraz NazirThis study seeks to: (1) discuss how the integrated reporting (IR) framework may provide the principles, concepts and the key elements to support the analysis and…
Strategic human resource management and employees' intention to leave: testing the moderated mediation
Subhash C. Kundu, Archana Mor, Neha GahlawatThe purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between business strategies (i.e. cost reduction, quality enhancement and innovation strategy) and employees'…
HR signals in the context of HRM-firm performance relationship: development of a conceptual framework
Chiradip Bandyopadhyay, Kailash B. L. SrivastavaThe purpose of this paper is to reframe human resources' (HR) systems and practices as HR signals drawing from conceptualizations of signals. The construct of the strength…
Impact of transactional, relational and balanced contract on affective commitment: Meaningful work as mediator
Nishant Singh, Harsha Tyagi, Umesh BamelThis paper is aimed at examining the impact of three types of psychological contracts such as transactional, relational and balanced contract on affective commitment by…
E-profiling R&D involvement/earnings of researchers: a G2E tool for performance management at CSIR–NML
Beena Kumari, Anuradha Madhukar, Indranil ChattorajCouncil of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)–National Metallurgical Laboratory (CSIR–NML) has launched a number of initiatives in different perspectives of…
Lean thinking and higher education management: revaluing the business school programme management
Saad Zighan, Ahmed EL-QasemThis paper explores the applications of lean thinking in re-evaluating the business school curriculum, syllabus and intended learning objectives to enhance the…
Managing performance through employee attributes: implications for employee engagement
Pia Lappalainen, Minna Saunila, Juhani Ukko, Tero Rantala, Hannu RantanenThe purpose of this paper is to examine the connection between performance management and employee engagement. More specifically, the authors address shortcomings in prior…
Working capital management and profitability of listed manufacturing firms in Ghana
Kofi Amponsah-Kwatiah, Michael AsiamahThis study examines the effect of working capital management on profitability of listed manufacturing firms in Ghana.
Process-oriented improvement: a modern look at drawing the organizational progress roadmap
Alireza Naser SadrAbadi, Seyed Mahmood Zanjirchi, Negar JalilianIn Iran, the Bank A is one of the largest and most effective banks of the banking network. The continued success of Bank A in improving the economic level of the country…
SME productivity stakeholders: getting in the right orbit
Oliver William Jones, Jeff Gold, David DevinsThe purpose of this paper is to explore who small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) owner–managers consider as key stakeholders for their business for helping increase…
Green knowledge management and strategic renewal: a discursive perspective on corporate sustainability
Jeffrey Gauthier, Zuopeng (Justin) ZhangThe purpose of this paper is to build theory concerning the role of discourse in strategic renewal and green knowledge management.
Quantitative target setting in balanced scorecard method using simultaneous equations system and goal programming
Sorour Farokhi, Emad Roghanian, Yaser SamimiThe purpose of this paper is to identify the accurate cause and effect relationships among strategic objectives and also to demonstrate how decision makers can be guided…
Fuzzy synthetic evaluation of human resource management practices influencing construction labour productivity
Argaw Tarekegn GurmuThe main objective of this research is to identify the most important human resource management (HRM) practices, which have the potential to enhance labour productivity…
Customer-contact employees’ empowerment and customer performance: The CRM effectiveness as a mediator
Sarra Berraies, Rached Chtioui, Mehrez ChaherThe purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between the customer-contact employees’ (CCE) empowerment and customer performance indicators, namely, perceived…
Understanding the role of trade unions in improving construction productivity through the institutional framework
Shang Gao, Sui Pheng Low, Serene Simin NgSluggish performance in construction productivity (CP) is a common occurrence worldwide. This phenomenon is also observed in Singapore. In this context, the role of trade…
Assessment of green supply chain management practices, performance, pressure and barriers amongst Indian manufacturer to achieve sustainable development
Shyamkumar D. Kalpande, Lalit K. TokeThe main objective of this paper is to integrate a typology of green supply chain management (GSCM) practices, performances, pressures and barriers with organizational…
Trust and knowledge contribution to agricultural cluster performance
Sandra Bergamini Leonardo, Marco Antonio Pinheiro Silveira, Paloma María Teresa Martinez-Sánchez, Maria do Carmo RomeiroThis paper aimed to analyze the contribution of the interorganizational relationship (IOR) factors trust and knowledge resources to the relational and transactional…
Evaluation of lean practices in warehouses: an analysis of Brazilian reality
Caroline Morito Pereira, Rosley Anholon, Izabela Simon Rampasso, Osvaldo L.G. Quelhas, Walter Leal Filho, Luis Antonio Santa-EulaliaThis article aims to investigate the most applied lean warehouse practices in Brazilian warehouses.
Performance evaluation under human capital perspective: an empirical evidence
Sujata Priyambada Dash, Supriyo RoyThe study investigates the effect of human capital (HC) on organizational performance (OP) of potential employees. Further, an attempt has been made to develop the…
Effects of green human resource management: testing a moderated mediation model
Richa ChaudharyThe purpose of this paper is to examine organizational attractiveness as a mechanism through which adoption of green human resource management (GHRM) practices affects…
Impact of operations management strategies on customer satisfaction and behavioral intentions at café-restaurants
N. Gökhan Torlak, Ahmet Demir, Taylan BudurThe purpose of this paper is to examine the relationships of capacity/layout (CL), design (D), location, (L), hygiene (H), human resource management (HRM), food quality…
Economic measuring of losses derived from inventory management at an oil refinery
Marcos Fabricio Machado, Daniel Pacheco Lacerda, Maria Isabel Wolf Motta Morandi, Luis Felipe Riehs Camargo, Aline DreschThe purpose of the present study is to identify and measure economically the losses related to inventory management in an oil refinery.
A company performance index for motor vehicle manufacturers: company performance measurement with environmental concerns
Qinqin Zeng, Wouter Beelaerts van Blokland, Sicco Santema, Gabriel LodewijksCurrent literature presents limited measurement methods of quantifying manufacturers' performance with environmental concerns. The purpose of this paper is to construct a…
People-process-performance benchmarking technique in cloud computing environment: An AHP approach
Issam KouatliCloud computing is relatively a new type of technology demanding a new method of management techniques to attain security and privacy leading to customer satisfaction…
Enhancing business performance through green human resource management practices: an empirical evidence from Malaysian manufacturing industry
Arsalan Mujahid Ghouri, Venkatesh Mani, Mustafa R. Khan, Naveed R. Khan, Anugamini Priya SrivastavaThe purpose of this study is to assess the key determinants of green human resource management (GHRM) and investigate its impact on environmental performance (EP) and…
Heat-related productivity loss: benefits derived by working in the shade or work-time shifting
Marco Morabito, Alessandro Messeri, Alfonso Crisci, Junzhe Bao, Rui Ma, Simone Orlandini, Cunrui Huang, Tord KjellstromAgricultural workers represent an important part of the population exposed to high heat-related health and productivity risks. This study aims to estimate the heat-related…
Integration of TTF and network externalities for RFID adoption in healthcare industry
Vicky Ching Gu, Ken BlackDespite the extensive adoption of radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology across many industry supply chains, the extent of adoption in healthcare is far behind…
Impact of supply risk management on firm performance: a case of the Indian electronics industry
Ramesh KT, Sarada Prasad SarmahThe purpose of this research is to study and examine the influence of systematic supply risk management (SRM) on the buyer's firm performance, mainly focussing on the…
The effect of social network ties on performance: a moderated mediation model
Amer Ali Al-AtwiThe purpose of this paper is to adapt the job demands–resources perspective to extend social network literature by examining the effectiveness of psychological (work…
Weather and labor productivity in construction: a literature review and taxonomy of studies
Anas Moussa Al Refaie, Ali M. Alashwal, Zulkiflee Abdul-Samad, Hafez SallehClimate change and global warming have increased concerns over the influence of weather on workers' health and productivity in construction projects. A significant number…
Corporate governance mechanisms and corporate investments: evidence from India
Samridhi Suman, Shveta SinghThe purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate the influence of corporate governance variables relating to the board of directors, audit and ownership on the…
An empirical investigation of the relationship between TSR, value-based and accounting-based performance measures
Harnesh Makhija, Pankaj TrivediThe paper aims to find out the information content of performance measures from accounting and value-based measures that best explain the total shareholder return.
The mechanism behind employee agreeableness and group performance ratings: a Pakistani study
Sara Altaf, Muhammad Zahid Iqbal, Jan-Willem van Prooijen, Malik IkramullahThis study seeks to examine the links between employee agreeableness, group performance, and peers' perceptions of threat of retaliation, through relationship conflict.
Enhancing voice of customer prioritisation in QFD by integrating the competitor matrix
Zafar Iqbal, Nigel Peter GriggQuality function deployment (QFD) is a quality improvement methodology using a system of interrelated matrices, where the influence of any one matrix may meaningfully…
Enablers of green business process management in the oil and gas sector
Bader K. AlNuaimi, Mohammed Al Mazrouei, Fauzia JabeenThe integration of green business process management (GBPM) to the existing processes of the oil and gas companies (O&G) in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries…
Performance measurement for supply chains in the Industry 4.0 era: a balanced scorecard approach
Guilherme Francisco Frederico, Jose Arturo Garza-Reyes, Anil Kumar, Vikas KumarThe purpose of this paper is to present a theoretical approach based on the balanced scorecard (BSC) with regard to performance measurement – PM in supply chains for the…
Working capital management, firm performance and nature of business: An empirical evidence from India
Kumar Sanjay Sawarni, Sivasankaran Narayanasamy, Kanagaraj AyyalusamyThis paper aims to investigate the impact of the efficiency of working capital management (WCM) on the performance of a sample of Indian companies and explore how the…
GCG, financial architecture on stock return, financial performance and corporate value
Suhadak Suhadak, Sri Mangesti Rahayu, Siti Ragil HandayaniThe purpose of this paper is to observe and analyze the influence of good corporate governance (GCG) and financial architecture on stock returns and financial performance…
Performance appraisal, justice and organizational effectiveness: a comparison between two universities
Kurmet Kivipõld, Kulno Türk, Lea KivipõldThe purpose of this paper is to identify how the design of a performance appraisal system (PAS) affects the perceived justice of academic employees (AE) about their…
Factors influencing multifactor productivity of equipment-intensive activities
Nima Gerami Seresht, Aminah Robinson FayekDue to its key role in the successful delivery of construction projects, construction productivity is one of the most researched topics in construction domain. While the…
Fifteen years of international journal of productivity and performance management (2004–2018)
Riya Sureka, Satish Kumar, Sachin Kumar Mangla, Flavio Hourneaux JuniorInternational Journal of Productivity and Performance Management (IJPPM) is one of the prominent journals publishing on general management with a particular focus on…
The impact of board and audit committee characteristics on corporate social responsibility: evidence from the Iranian stock exchange
Shaban Mohammadi, Hadi Saeidi, Nader NaghshbandiThe purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of board and audit committee characteristics on corporate social responsibility (CSR) in Iranian companies listed in…
Two-stage incentives system for commercial banks based on centralized resource allocation model in DEA-R
Parisa Kamyab, Mohammad Reza Mozaffari, Javad Gerami, Peter F. WankeiIt is always of great importance for managers in organizations to evaluate their staff members and create incentive systems, using instruments such as Data Envelopment…
Linking improvisational behavior, adaptive selling behavior and sales performance
Peerayuth Charoensukmongkol, Pornprom SuthatornThis research examined the relationships between improvisational behavior, adaptive selling behavior and sales performance of direct sellers in Thailand. This research…
What drives job satisfaction in IT companies?
Sérgio Moro, Ricardo F. Ramos, Paulo RitaStrategic goal achievement in every sector of a company relies fundamentally on the firm's employees. This study aims to disclose the factors that spur employees of major…
Modeling teachers’ quality of work life: a partial least square approach
Muhammad Imran Malik, Hassan Mehmood, Waheed Ali UmraniThe purpose of this paper is to examine the factors affecting quality of work life (QWL) of teachers working in Higher Education Institutions.
Performance analysis of Indian states based on social–economic infrastructural investments using data envelopment analysis
Gaurav Goyal, Pankaj DuttaThis study investigates the performance of Indian states based on infrastructural investment in social and economic sectors using data envelopment analysis (DEA). Most of…
Driving performance in the public sector: what can we learn from Malaysia’s service delivery reform?
Noore Alam SiddiqueeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the extent to which Malaysia’s most recent public service reform has improved service delivery and governmental performance. It…
Sustainable operations practices and sustainable performance: relationships and moderators
Vilmar Antonio Gonçalves Tondolo, Marina D'Agostini, Maria Emília Camargo, Rosana da Rosa Portella Tondolo, Josefer de Lima Souza, André Andrade LongarayThe purpose of this study is to analyze the relationships among four types of sustainable operations practices and sustainable performance in the environmental, economic…
Impact of Lean, Six Sigma and environmental sustainability on the performance of SMEs
Yousaf Ali, Ahsan Younus, Amin Ullah Khan, Hamza PervezThis paper aims to explore the impact of lean, Six Sigma and environmental sustainability on the performance of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Pakistan. The firm…
Strategic scenario analysis combining dynamic balanced scorecards and statistics
Enrico Supino, Federico Barnabè, Maria Cleofe Giorgino, Cristiano BuscoThe purpose of this paper is to explore the way in which system dynamics (SD) can enhance some key success factors of the balanced scorecard (BSC) model and support…
Revised overall labour effectiveness
Marcello Braglia, Davide Castellano, Marco Frosolini, Mosè Gallo, Leonardo MarrazziniThe paper proposes a new workforce effectiveness metric that is a sophisticated evolution of a pre-existing overall labour effectiveness (OLE) indicator. The KPI, named…
Evaluating the performance of auditors: a driver or a stabilizer of auditors’ behaviour
Rabih Nehme, Christelle AlKhoury, Abdullah Al MutawaThe purpose of this paper is to identify differences in auditors’ dysfunctional behaviour when expecting performance appraisal. Its main aim is to examine variances across…
What influences intention to purchase sustainable products? impact of advertising and materialism
Anshul Mandliya, Vartika Varyani, Yusuf Hassan, Anuja Akhouri, Jatin PandeyThe purpose of the present study is to examine the relationship between Social and Environmental Accountability (SEA), Attitude towards Environmental Advertising (AEA)…
Low interest rate environment: inventory management in Finland and Baltic states
Olli-Pekka Hilmola, Weidong Li, Andres TolliFor decades, it was emphasized that manufacturing and trading companies should aim to be lean with very small inventories. However, in the recent decade, time-significant…
Effects of the attributes of supply chain openness on sustainable supply chain performance
Syed Awais Ahmad Tipu, Kamel FantazyThe purpose of this paper is to empirically examine the effects of the attributes of supply chain openness on sustainable supply chain performance (SSCP).
Bank productivity in Africa
Sarah Beatson Nartey, Kofi A. Osei, Emmanuel Sarpong-KumankomaThe purpose of this paper is to provide a total factor productivity index for the African banking industry. It also investigates the impact of some internal and external…
Exploring employee performance dimensionality in Indian public sector units
Subhra Pattnaik, Susmita PattnaikPerformance is considered to be a multi-dimensional construct with three underlying dimensions such as Task Performance (TP), Interpersonal Facilitation (IPF), and Job…
The potential impact of managerial entrenchment on firms’ corporate social responsibility activities and financial performance: evidence from Iran
Mahdi Salehi, Mahbubeh Mahmoudabadi, Mohammad Sadegh Adibian, Hossein Rezaei RanjbarThe present study aims to assess the effect of managerial entrenchment on firms’ corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities and financial performance in Iran.
Developing a framework for evaluating sustainability index for logistics service providers: graph theory matrix approach
Anchal Gupta, Rajesh Kumar SinghThe purpose of this study is to identify sustainability practices and to propose a framework for evaluating the sustainability index of logistics service providers (LSPs).
Application of Six Sigma methodology in an Indian chemical company
Vishal Singh Patyal, Sachin Modgil, Maddulety KoilakuntlaThe aim of this paper is to deploy Six Sigma (SS) methodology for addressing the customer complaints pertaining to Chemical-X in an Indian chemical company.
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