Professor Vikas Kumar's Outputs (33)

Barriers to supply chain integration: The case of Vietnamese textile and apparel enterprises (2016)
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To identify the barriers of supply chain integration and propose solutions through empirical study

Challenges to the transformational role of university in regional innovation system (2015)
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A review of literature recognizes that universities play an important role towards regional innovation system and the innovation systems in China differ from the one in advanced marketing economies. Over the past decade, some university mergers took... Read More about Challenges to the transformational role of university in regional innovation system.

Investigating the impact of short food supply chain on emigration: A study of Valencia community in Spain (2015)
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© 2015, IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control) Hosting by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Recent financial crisis had severe impact on many economies around the globe. In Spain, it has resulted in increasing job loss, increasing shor... Read More about Investigating the impact of short food supply chain on emigration: A study of Valencia community in Spain.

Corporate Sustainability and Business Excellence (2015)
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© 2015 IEEE. This paper discusses the suitability for Business Excellence Models (BEMs) to include Corporate Sustainability on business model criteria. The conceptual paper brings discussion of what sort of measures are required to fit organizations'... Read More about Corporate Sustainability and Business Excellence.

Adoption of operations improvement methods in the Greek engineering sector (2015)
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© 2015 IEEE. This paper presents an initial research that explores the awareness and adoption of Lean Manufacturing (LM), Lean Six Sigma (LSS), Quick Response Manufacturing (QRM) and Theory Of Constraints (TOC) in the Greek engineering sector. An exp... Read More about Adoption of operations improvement methods in the Greek engineering sector.

The transformational role of University in regional innovation system: The case of Zhengzhou University in China (2014)
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Investigating key antecedents of customer satisfaction in B2B information service firms (2014)
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Service sector has grown significantly over the years and now is one of the major contributors of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of most of the developed and developing economies. Within the service sector, information economy has grown significant... Read More about Investigating key antecedents of customer satisfaction in B2B information service firms.

Dependability a key element for achieving competitive advantage: A study of information service firms (2013)
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© IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2013. In the current economic climate and intense competitive environment achieving sustainable competitive advantage has become vital for any organisation’s survival. Organisations around th... Read More about Dependability a key element for achieving competitive advantage: A study of information service firms.

Selection and ranking of low cost countries for outsourcing and offshoring in the manufacturing sector (2013)
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With the advent of globalisation, there is a need for companies to gain and sustain a competitive advantage. Outsourcing and offshoring are strategies often employed by organisations to sustain and gain such competitive advantage. This paper focuses... Read More about Selection and ranking of low cost countries for outsourcing and offshoring in the manufacturing sector.

Exploring short food supply chains from triple bottom line lens: A comprehensive systematic review
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Growing awareness towards the sustainability has compelled supply chain domain experts to explore its relevance in this context. As a result, a number of studies in recent years have focused on investigating sustainable supply chain practices across... Read More about Exploring short food supply chains from triple bottom line lens: A comprehensive systematic review.

Investigating supply chain performance and supply chain integration linkage in Jordanian manufacturing firms
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Supply chain integration plays a major role in the success of any organisation. As a result in last over a decade it has drawn a significant interest from the research community and practitioners alike. Though researchers have aimed to address variou... Read More about Investigating supply chain performance and supply chain integration linkage in Jordanian manufacturing firms.

Use of clean technologies in agribusiness in Mexico: A literature review
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There is little research documenting the use of clean technologies (CT) in Agribusiness in Mexico. In this regard, the objective of this article is to provide an in-depth literature review that can cover this gap and help decision-makers and investor... Read More about Use of clean technologies in agribusiness in Mexico: A literature review.

The impact of learning orientation on innovation performance: Mediating role of operations strategy and moderating role of environmental uncertainty
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Performing well in developing production industry is an important factor for companies to survive and sustain a competitive edge in the current turbulent business environment. The purpose of this study is to explore the effect of learning orientation... Read More about The impact of learning orientation on innovation performance: Mediating role of operations strategy and moderating role of environmental uncertainty.