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Special Issue-Applications of reference models for supply-chain integration (2014)
Journal Article
The Special Issue of Production Planning & Control, 2014 reflects the most recent advances on reference models in industrial and supply-chain applications. Liu and co-researchers study the impact of additive manufacturing (AM) in the aircraft spare p... Read More about Special Issue-Applications of reference models for supply-chain integration.
The transformational role of University in regional innovation system: The case of Zhengzhou University in China (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Responsible management of projects in the context of international development: A critical overview of governance, leadership and power (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
The English patient experience: Does healthcare service quality matter? (2015)
Book Chapter
The performance of family doctors has the potential for considerable impact on overall patient care and satisfaction. This chapter focuses on publicly funded GP surgeries in England, considering the impact of performance measurement on patient satisf... Read More about The English patient experience: Does healthcare service quality matter?.
Economical impact of RFID implementation in remanufacturing: a Chaos-based Interactive Artificial Bee Colony approach (2015)
Journal Article
© 2013, Springer Science+Business Media New York. In the modern manufacturing arena, environmental and economical concerns draw considerable attention from both practitioners and researchers towards remanufacturing practices. The success of remanufac... Read More about Economical impact of RFID implementation in remanufacturing: a Chaos-based Interactive Artificial Bee Colony approach.
IT, outsourcing, real estate, and China: An old economy business leader’s take on boom sectors in India (2015)
Journal Article
This article features an interview with Gaurav Dalmia, Chairman of Landmark Holdings. He is a third generation tycoon from the Dalmia group, an Indian business conglomerate. Today the family-owned business powerhouse has interests in cement, industri... Read More about IT, outsourcing, real estate, and China: An old economy business leader’s take on boom sectors in India.
Challenges to the transformational role of university in regional innovation system (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
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.
Project Management as Management Innovation (2014)
Book Chapter
Restructuring, organizational change and leadership: A European multinational in India (2014)
Journal Article
Copyright and creation: Repositioning the argument (2014)
Journal Article
Purpose: This paper highlights the challenges and key arguments for digital copyright protection legislation for creative industries. Design/methodology/approach: This briefing is prepared by independent academics who place the arguments in context b... Read More about Copyright and creation: Repositioning the argument.
Investigating key antecedents of customer satisfaction in B2B information service firms (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
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.
Exploring the application of quality improvement programmes and ISO standards in the Indian marble mining sector (2014)
Journal Article
In this era of globalisation, as competition intensifies, providing quality products and services has become a competitive advantage and a need to ensure survival. To ensure such competitive advantage, organisations of different industries around the... Read More about Exploring the application of quality improvement programmes and ISO standards in the Indian marble mining sector.
Green supply chain performance measurement using fuzzy ANP-based balanced scorecard: A collaborative decision-making approach (2014)
Journal Article
The purpose of this paper is to delineate a green supply chain (GSC) performance measurement framework using an intra-organisational collaborative decision-making (CDM) approach. A fuzzy analytic network process (ANP)-based green-balanced scorecard (... Read More about Green supply chain performance measurement using fuzzy ANP-based balanced scorecard: A collaborative decision-making approach.
Personal development review (PDR) process and engineering staff motivation: A case study investigation in a manufacturing firm (2014)
Journal Article
© Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose - The academic literature and motivational theory recognise the positive role of motivation on organisational performance and considers personal development as a key motivational factor. In practice, most o... Read More about Personal development review (PDR) process and engineering staff motivation: A case study investigation in a manufacturing firm.
The implementation of an environmental management system in the not-for-profit sector (2014)
Journal Article
Purpose This paper examines the implementation of the Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS) in a non-profit, small to medium sized enterprise (SME) in the UK. Methodology A four year Participatory Action Research study is made upon Knowledge Tran... Read More about The implementation of an environmental management system in the not-for-profit sector.
Integration of energy efficient technologies in UK supermarkets (2014)
Journal Article
The purpose of this paper is twofold: to determine if the integration of energy efficient technologies in UK supermarkets can determine consumer behaviour, and to establish if such activities can help satisfying the environmental elements of the clie... Read More about Integration of energy efficient technologies in UK supermarkets.
Prioritisation of operations improvement projects in the European manufacturing industry (2014)
Journal Article
To improve their competitive ability, organisations are turning towards implementing improvements into their operations and processes. Whilst operations improvement projects are often identified with relative ease, resource constraints limit the abil... Read More about Prioritisation of operations improvement projects in the European manufacturing industry.
The impact of lean methods and tools on the operational performance of manufacturing organisations (2014)
Journal Article
Evidence suggests that lean methods and tools have helped manufacturing organisations to improve their operations and processes. However, the real effect of these methods and tools on contemporary measures of operational performance, i.e. cost, speed... Read More about The impact of lean methods and tools on the operational performance of manufacturing organisations.
Visions of a Pole Position: Developing Inimitable Resource Capacity through Enterprise Systems Implementation in Nestlé (2014)
Journal Article
Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd Multinational organizations can achieve a non-replicable capacity and may use the key nature of foresight to support the development and deployment of the enterprise system across several locations around the... Read More about Visions of a Pole Position: Developing Inimitable Resource Capacity through Enterprise Systems Implementation in Nestlé.