Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management: Volume 19 Issue 1

Leaders, loungers, laggards: The strategic‐planning‐environment‐ performance relationship re‐visited in manufacturing SMEs

Nicholas O'Regan, Martin A. Sims, David Gallear

This paper aims to assess the link between strategic‐planning, aspects of the external environment and overall corporate performance in manufacturing SMEs.

Relationship of ISO 9001:2000 quality system certification with operational and business performance: A survey in Australia and New Zealand‐based manufacturing and service companies

Mei Feng, Milé Terziovski, Danny Samson

This research paper aims to explore the relationship between ISO 9000 certification and organisational performance by developing an ISO 9000 relationship model.

Leveraging automation and integration to improve manufacturing performance under uncertainty: An empirical study

Kun Liao, Qiang Tu

This paper aims to address the differing impacts of automation and integration on manufacturing performance (MP) under different levels of environmental uncertainty.

Manufacturing to Asia: who will win the emerging battle for talent between Dragons and Tigers?

Connie Zheng, Claudine Soosay, Paul Hyland

The purpose of this study is to examine the issues relating to recruiting highly skilled managerial and professional staff experienced by multinational companies (MNCs…

Outsourcing strategies for apparel manufacture: a case study

Sameer Kumar, A. Samad Arbi

The redesign of a product supply chain, in terms of production, cost and delivery capabilities can be effectively accomplished by mapping, analyzing and simulating the changes in…

Evaluation of buyer‐supplier relationships using an integrated mathematical approach of interpretive structural modeling (ISM) and graph theoretic matrix: The case study of Indian automotive SMEs

Jitesh Thakkar, Arun Kanda, S.G. Deshmukh

The purpose of this paper is to propose a methodology for evaluating and comparing supply chain relationships, specifically when, small and medium scale enterprise (SME) is…

A conceptual model of performance measurement for supply chains: Alternative considerations

Adisak Theeranuphattana, John C.S. Tang

This paper revisits the recent work of Chan and Qi which proposed an innovative performance measurement method for supply chain management. While the measurement method has many…

Supply chain management: Issues in the New Era of Collaboration and Competition

Ramakrishnan Ramanathan

Editorial

David Bennett

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