This exploratory study seeks to determine the interrelationship between sustainable manufacturing practices (SMP), sustaining lean improvements (SLI) and sustainable performance (SP) in Malaysian automotive industry. The specific goals are: 1) to identify the SMP, SLI and SP measures for...

This paper analysed the intermediary effect of market orientation as a variable that can change the business performance of some markets especially SMEs. Market orientation which plays a significant role in marketing and give rise to the organisation's competitive advantage and success and...

This paper aims to present the empirical findings and lessons learnt from an action research on the evolution of the performance measurement system (PMS) for the Logistics Department of a broadcasting company. The development covers the procedure rather than the structure of PMS offering a...

In this day and age, family based companies need more flexible and faster organization structures to respond effectively to the customers’ growing various type of needs in the dynamic markets. Family owned firms use more strategic tools to increase their firm performance. These tools include...

For last 15 years, Six Sigma that many leader companies have put into practice, help companies to increase their profit and develop by making their process more effective. Six Sigma focuses on quality more than speed. Lean Management removes weakness of Six Sigma on speeding process. In this...

The companies today have to adapt to different changing conditions, like rapid technological development, shorter product life cycles and more demanding customers, in order to improve their position on the market. The objective of the paper is to present and analyses the impact of lean by using...

This paper presents in a general manner the conceptof Lean Production and the benefits of its adoption. Lean production is a term met more and more nowadays, a strategy being in a continuous development, based on a set of principles and tools to achieve its objective: to eliminate waste in order...

The article deals with the fundamental principles of the Japanese management system, including the main aspects of the philosophy of kaizen and kanban. Also study socio-cultural problems of the Japanese management system.

Рассмотрены преимущества использования интегральных показателей эффективности проектов и их особенности, связанные с оценкой внедрения инструментов...