We explore whether and how the overconfidence of Chief Operating Officer (COO) affects the firm's operational performance, in particular, the leanness of inventory. As overconfident managers tend to overestimate their firms' operational capabilities, we hypothesize that an overconfident COO sets...

We conducted an exploratory study to examine whether teachincan significantly impact the managers’ way of thinking and, thus, their decision-making in operations management. To prove the proposition, we looked at whether learning operations management in the same class makes the students’...

We define value chain sustainability as the firm’s sustainability, perceived by the managers in the context of its supply chain or value chain. Consistent with the literature, we put forth that it is a latent concept consisting of three dimensions, i.e., stakeholder economics (economic),...

We define social strategy as the strategic decision making to improve social conditions or to facilitate social changes in a desirable direction by dealing with critical issues and/or solving fundamental problems in the society. In this paper, we propose a framework that enables the decision...