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Automotive enterprise transformation: Build to order as a sustainable and innovative strategy for the automotive industry? (2013)
Journal Article

© IIE, INCOSE. The global financial crisis has significantly impacted the automotive industry. The crisis has reduced the supply of credit to industry, exposed process inefficiencies, and reduced credit to consumers, which has reduced sales. Firms ar... Read More about Automotive enterprise transformation: Build to order as a sustainable and innovative strategy for the automotive industry?.

Corporate governance disclosure practices by Swaziland public enterprises (2012)
Journal Article

Learning from project management implementation journeys (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Enterprise imaging: Drawing a complex enterprise (2012)
Report

Enterprise Imaging is an approach to provide a two-dimensional visual depiction of a multi-organizational enterprise which provides products and/or service output. It does not show process flows, rather the resource owners and capabilities which co... Read More about Enterprise imaging: Drawing a complex enterprise.

CEOs in India: How leadership and management philosophies drive innovation (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This work highlights the corporate and non-corporate leadership practices in India, the effect of culture and religion on such practices and how these drive innovation. Many qualities of a good leader, as defined by Indian CEOs were derived from the... Read More about CEOs in India: How leadership and management philosophies drive innovation.

An engineering systems approach to strategic change: The case of the European Automotive Industry (2012)
Journal Article

Build to Order [BTO] refers to a demand driven production approach where the majority of products and components are scheduled and built in response to a confirmed order received for it from a final customer. A £23m EU project involving leading auto... Read More about An engineering systems approach to strategic change: The case of the European Automotive Industry.

Disrupting practices: New insights into innovation (2012)
Journal Article

In building theories to explain phenomena one of the key challenges is to identify the correct ‘unit of analysis’. This is fundamental if theory is to be useful in explaining the salient features of that phenomena and its broader impact. Within the... Read More about Disrupting practices: New insights into innovation.

Leadership, WTO, commerce, and new strategies for corporatization of government institutions: A top Indian bureaucrat's take (2012)
Book Chapter

To provide a select perspective from India in terms of its Civil Services, leadership, and its unique challenges

Measuring the perceived importance of ethics and social responsibility in financial services: A narrative-inductive approach (2012)
Journal Article

Purpose - This paper aims to reflect the argument that the impetus to engage in socially responsible actions is ultimately reinforced by the perceived belief that doing so will be beneficial to the corporation in the long run. Design/methodology/appr... Read More about Measuring the perceived importance of ethics and social responsibility in financial services: A narrative-inductive approach.

Discretion and complexity in customer focused environments (2012)
Journal Article

Operations have traditionally focused on reductive analysis; transactional processes open to mass-customisation and standardisation. This study proposes that service complexity created by extensive 'reasonable' customer demand limits the ability to s... Read More about Discretion and complexity in customer focused environments.

Determinants of web‐accessibility of corporate social responsibility communications (2012)
Journal Article

Purpose: The corporate social responsibility (CSR) debate has developed tremendously over decades. However, while CSR communication has developed significantly, web‐accessibility of CSR communications is under researched. The purpose of this paper is... Read More about Determinants of web‐accessibility of corporate social responsibility communications.

An evaluation of teaching methods used in teaching construction project management (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Key characteristics of SME procurement: An empirical study (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This research is part of the i-Compete project on improving competitiveness of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the South West of England through best practice procurement. It is jointly funded by the ERDF (through Universities South West... Read More about Key characteristics of SME procurement: An empirical study.

Change management in the public sector: The use of cross-functional teams (2013)
Journal Article

Adoption of change management best practices continues to be offered as a route towards improved cost, quality and productivity of public services. These approaches are predominantly drawn from private sector research and their application by the pub... Read More about Change management in the public sector: The use of cross-functional teams.

The influence of inter-firm relationships on Supply Chain Quality Management (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Claims of the association between inter-firm relationships and the successful implementation of Supply Chain Quality Management (SCQM) practices have been long discussed in the literature. Nevertheless, these assumptions lack consistent empirical sup... Read More about The influence of inter-firm relationships on Supply Chain Quality Management.

The influence of inter-firm relationships on supply chain quality management: A Survey of UK firms
Journal Article

Claims of the association between inter-firm relationships and the successful implementation of Supply Chain Quality Management (SCQM) practices have been long discussed in the literature. Nevertheless, these assumptions lack consistent empirical sup... Read More about The influence of inter-firm relationships on supply chain quality management: A Survey of UK firms.

I series of purchasing research practitioner brochures (2012)
Other

The i-Series Research Family The I-Series is the result of over ten year’s worth of cumulative research by the Innovation, Purchasing and Supply Research Team at Bristol Business School. All of this research is aimed at Purchasing Practitioners an... Read More about I series of purchasing research practitioner brochures.

Discontinuous innovation: A challenge for purchasing (2012)
Journal Article

Purpose of this paper This paper investigates the question: What are the challenges to the purchasing function when faced with discontinuous innovation? The paper defines discontinuous innovation, differentiating it from other forms of innovation, a... Read More about Discontinuous innovation: A challenge for purchasing.

Practising social innovation: The role of social enterprises (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Social innovation has been practiced for decades, however relatively little is known. According to Mulgan (2006), Social innovation refers to the innovative activities motivated by a social need and objective, predominantly diffused through organisat... Read More about Practising social innovation: The role of social enterprises.

Going with the flow: A systems approach to how an academic health science centre creates value through collaboration (2012)
Journal Article

This briefing looks at the case of Cambridge University Health Partners, the management organisation of the Cambridge Academic Health Science Centre (AHSC). An AHSC is a partnership between one or more universities and healthcare providers focusing o... Read More about Going with the flow: A systems approach to how an academic health science centre creates value through collaboration.