Presents a detailed analysis of marketers' education levels, experience and language skills carried out among French, German, Italian, Swedish and British companies. Investigates whether the characteristics and qualities of export managers are significant factors in the implementation of...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine whether Korean multinational corporations (MNCs) in the electronics and steel industries do shift their production across their foreign subsidiaries, located in different countries, as exchange rates fluctuate in foreign countries....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show if there are differences between traditional and just‐in‐time ( JIT) companies in choosing benchmarking performance measures at various levels of organization. Design/methodology/approach – A questionnaire‐based mailed survey was used to...

Over the past 20 years, the field of manufacturing strategy has developed many different approaches. Argues that there are three distinct paradigms in manufacturing strategy: competing through manufacturing; strategic choices in manufacturing; and best practice. Each is reviewed and its...

Benchmarking is a topic which is currently attracting considerable interest among both academics and practitioners in the manufacturing community. Yet little has been written about the assumptions which lie behind benchmarking. As a process, benchmarking remains poorly understood. Describes a...

The importance of performance measurement has long been recognized by academics and practitioners from a variety of functional disciplines. Seeks to bring together this diverse body of knowledge into a coherent whole. To ensure that the key issues are identified, focuses on the process of...

Proposes a method to assess the relative value of organizational human resource (HR) based on total performance. The total performance of the man‐machine resource base of an organization includes its profitability together with how it affects the interests of consumers, the national economy...