Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) is a consolidated purchasing tool applied across different industries. However, in some cases existing models are not satisfactory. The paper addresses the case of the tinting industry supply chain, which is constituted as follows: manufacturers of colorant...

This work investigates the relationship between manufacturing best practices and competitive priorities. By means of data provided by four editions of the IMSS dataset, a longitudinal analysis is performed to analyze to which extent this relationship is stable over time. Results provide evidence...

In 2003 we investigated the level of adoption of e-business by manufacturing firms in Europe, identifying four strategies and analyzing them in terms of contingent factors and supply chain integration mechanisms. In this paper we replicate those analyses using the new release of the...