Research linking investments in environmental practices to firm performance has matured over the past years. However, empirical research is still ambiguous on how and whether investments in environmental practices improve a plant's performance. We believe that contingency factors, especially the...

Drawing upon resource dependence theory, this study investigates the linkages from supplier partnership and customer relationship to internal lean practices. Furthermore, this study investigates the linkages from internal lean practices (ILP) to operational performance and organizational...

This paper investigates the importance of quality management practices for the success of environmental management initiatives. It has been recently established that sustainability initiatives whether in terms of social or environmental investments can improve organizational performance....

Two bodies of literature have tended to dominate in the area of quality: one has emerged from the manufacturing/operations management discipline, the other from services and marketing. The interface between both schools of thought is addressed less frequently, probably reflecting the traditional...

This paper is concerned with the study of the constant due-date assignment policy in repetitive projects, where the activity durations are exponentially distributed random variables. It is then extended to the case where activity durations follow generalized Erlang distributions. The main...

It has long been recognized that changes in production technology have effects outside the manufacturing unit of the firm. Although researchers have examined the effects of new technologies (e.g. increased automation) on the workforce, these studies have generally examined only technology...

This paper examines the sources of competitive advantage from a cross-functional perspective and presents a dynamic, general model of the tangible and intangible factors that lead to superior firm performance. We argue that superior performance results from the development of a complex,...