This Article examines several research questions relative to the content of manufacturing strategy on the basis of empirical data gathered on a sample of Slovenian manufacturing firms: What were the most important manufacturing competitive priorities of sampled Slovenian companies in the past...

Despite the success that the ISO 9001 standard has achieved it has been extensively criticized and empirical studies have shown controversial results about its impact on performance. Our conceptual study was motivated by the mentioned dilemma about ISO 9001 effectiveness, and the controversy...

Purpose Existing research evidence shows a fragmented understanding of the roles of first-line employees (FLEs) as essential factors for successful lean implementation in small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), provoking recent calls for additional research on the identification of enablers...