systems in manufacturing companies. The paper develops, from theory, a framework for analysing the implementation of a …

This paper reports empirical evidence of the implementation patterns of JIT purchasing developed by the Spanish auto … 150 manufacturers. Three stages of implementation are identified and the analysis of companies at each stage reveals that … purchasing practices which make a holistic implementation more beneficial than the isolated introduction of selected practices.  …

Explores the implementation process of the customer‐supplier partnership in the machinery industry. Aims to assess the …

in and studied one company’s implementation of lean production. The observations from the clinical study are compared …

‐structured interviews with the directors and managers directly involved revealed two main perceived drivers of implementation and four … perceived factors that block implementation. The results are of specific interest for performance measurement system … implementation but have wider implications for our view of management commitment in change management.  …

Addresses the implementation of business process re‐engineering (BPR) programmes in 33 public and private organisations … independent aspects of BPR implementation: strategy, process and cost. These terms were then used in labelling three … the original organisations which had been in the early stages of implementation. Preliminary results indicate that …