benchmarking environmental performance in manufacturing. Design/methodology/approach – This paper shares the experience of a … research program developing environmental benchmarking measures for the automobile industry. Findings – In this paper, we … firms emphasized different approaches to benchmarking depending upon regulatory context and company strategy. Product type …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a conceptual framework for benchmarking implementation in small … presents the need for a framework and its relationship with benchmarking and TQM. This is followed by reviewing the … benchmarking implementation frameworks proposed by researchers and discusses these frameworks based on their strengths and …

conduct a benchmarking analysis of the practical findings against the theoretical ones obtained in a European Community … paper also shares the experience of a European Community Research Project benchmarking the results for the automobile … benchmarking shows that the European variety offered exceeds the “appropriate” level of variety considered best in class by the …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to focus on investigating and benchmarking green operations initiatives in the … to the roadmap and benchmarking of green operations initiatives based on an analysis of secondary data from the …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a benchmarking framework for the analysis of the supply network … configuration benchmarking framework including a dyadic supply chain and network perspective. The analysis of two case companies … develop a benchmarking framework for supply network configuration analysis combining the dyadic, chain, and network level into …

managers. Design/methodology/approach – A survey questionnaire is developed, based on the ten‐step Xerox benchmarking process …, to identify the perceived and/or experienced benchmarking best practices amongst French managers. Large, medium and small … companies are surveyed and managers who have participated in or are in the middle of a benchmarking project contributed to the …

reputation appears to emerge as a critical dimension of benchmarking of a firm performance.  …

manufacturing, and benchmarking the performance of English Universities. … performance measurement system -- Simulating less-than-truckload terminal operations -- Benchmarking the performance of English …