In this paper, the authors give an introduction to the four most important ideologies impacting culture and the way of thinking in China today, i.e. Confucianism, Daoism, Legalism and Buddhism. First, the authors provide an overview of the historical period where these ideologies originate from,...

Robotics and automation are of the most prominent technologies that will probably define how retail operates in the future. This statement is especially relevant in today's industry conditions characterized by rising wages, severe increases in energy costs and smaller consumer spending across...

Lean manufacturing (LM) is currently enjoying its second heyday. Companies in several industries are implementing leanpractices to keep pace with the competition and achieve better results. In this article, we will concentrate on how companies can improve their inventoryturnover performance...

The links between operational practices and performance are well studied in the literature, both theoretically and empirically. However, mostly internal factors are inspected more closely as the basis of operational performance, even if the impact of external, environmental factors is often...

The aim of our research is to investigate a company’s purchasing and manufacturing competitive priorities jointly in order to uncover any relationships between them and also their effect on the supply chain tools implemented by the company. We assume that the supplier selection criteria of the...

In the last few years, the management literature has become noisy with Industry 4.0 (I4.0). Although several concepts and typologies intend to make the phenomenon more understandable, these endeavours generally focus on technological aspects or specific issues. Therefore, integrated approaches...

Ethics is a critical element of business relationship. This is often narrowed down to corruption in the context of purchasing management, however it is a much more complex problem. Since the large scale research projects of the 1990s only a few studies have been devoted to investigate this...

Robotics and automation are of the most prominent technologies that will probably define how retail operates in the future. This statement is especially relevant in today's industry conditions characterized by rising wages, severe increases in energy costs and smaller consumer spending across...

This paper aims to explore how digitalization can be used as a risk mitigation tool against pandemic-induced demand shocks, when customer movements and activities are constrained by government regulations. Due to the disrupting events of the COVID-19 pandemic, we opted for an exploratory study...