There is no doubt that management practices are linked to the productivity and performance of a company. However, research findings are mixed. This paper provides a multi-disciplinary review of the current evidence of such a relationship and offers suggestions for further exploration...

Matching uncertain demand with capacities is notoriously hard. Operationsmanagers can use mix-flexible resources to shift excess demands to unused capacities.To find the optimal configuration of a mix-flexible production network, aflexibility design problem (FDP) is solved. Existing literature...

Currently we have to realize a major change in the technological basis of manufacturing or even all production processes: The diffusion of new information and communication technologies, especially Internet Technologies, on the shop floor.(...)

In this paper we first show that the gains achievable by integrating pricing and inventory controlare usually small for classical demand functions. We then introduce reference price models anddemonstrate that for this class of demand functions the benefits of integration with inventory...

This paper investigates empirically the strategic alignment between innovation andproduction strategies in a sample of service firms in Spain. It employs the integratedarchetypes approach to analyse a dataset of unique, manually collected, firm responses....

Only recently researchers have started to focus on the interface of production andoperations management and (corporate) entrepreneurship. The present study builds onthis developing research stream and develops and empirically analyzes a model thatillustrates how a firm’s entrepreneurial...

The advanced in-house personnel training has been the dominated formof the human resources development in Japanese firms. The strategic strength ofthe advanced personnel training depends on the consistency with the skill requirements,which an actual production management demands. On the other...

Seit Jahrhunderten sind Märkte inStädten ein Zeichen für Wohlstandund geregelte Verhältnisse. DasMarktrecht verlieh einer StadtMacht und Ansehen. Von überallher aus der Umgebung kamen dieBauern und Händler um ihre Warenfeil zu bieten...

This study investigates what creates value for customers and how providers canimprove value for their customers. A comprehensive analytical model with a fourstepapproach is presented and applied in the field of financial services. In a firststep, the main customer value drivers are identified...