Cover -- CONTENTS -- EDITORIAL REVIEW BOARD -- Guest editorial -- The manufacturing extraprise: an emerging production network paradigm -- Strategic roles of manufacturing -- The evolution of production systems and conceptual frameworks -- Strategic options-based framework for management of...

This paper is concerned with the discipline of Operations Management. The paper looks at the convergence and divergence of research in OM in Scandinavia, the US, and the UK. The three different research traditions are described and analysed separately and then compared and contrasted. A short...

The paper presents the Cultural Elasticity Model as a new perspective on how existing companies may better perform continuous organic development of business models. It suggests three organisational pillars for the development of an organisation with strong cultural elasticity and therefore the...

Explores the reorganization of a sales and distribution operation. Describes a case study in which an integrated yet flexible organization was created by focusing strongly on identifying and re‐engineering the core business process. Presents a structured approach which was developed in the...