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Understanding environmental performance variation in manufacturing companies

Bocken, Nancy; Morgan, David; Evans, Steve - In: International Journal of Productivity and Performance … 62 (2013) 8, pp. 856-870

manufacturing, and sustainability performance management in practice. …Purpose – Sustainability is an area of increasing interest for industry and its stakeholders, and some companies now … aspire to address sustainability issues (e.g. carbon emissions) at strategic and operational levels. As companies are …

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Contractor use of productivity and sustainability indicators for building refurbishment

Sezer, Ahmet Anil - In: Built Environment Project and Asset Management 5 (2015) 2, pp. 141-153

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse the use of building refurbishment productivity and sustainability …-based key indicators. SMEs may have sustainability policies, but routines derived from such policies were weak on site. However …, for SMEs, refurbishment technology choices are often made by the client’s designer, and sustainability requirements are …

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Evergreens of excellence

de Waal, André A. - In: Journal of Management History 19 (2013) 2, pp. 241-278

Purpose – At the end of 2007, the Journal of Management History published a special issue on the topic of excellence, titled Our Dreams of Excellence . In this issue, Guest Editor Dahlgaard‐Park stated that research into excellence had taken a high flight in recent years despite the fact...

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Strategic issues in pharmaceutical supply chains: a review

Singh, Rajesh Kr.; Kumar, Ravinder; Kumar, Pravin - In: International Journal of Pharmaceutical and Healthcare … 10 (2016) 3, pp. 234-257

Purpose In the present context of a health-concious society, management of pharmaceutical supply chains has become more complex because it involves the life-saving interest of human being and requires the participation of different stakeholders such as pharmaceutical manufacturers, wholesalers,...

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Using interpretive structural modelling to identify and rank performance measures : An application in the automotive supply chain

Azevedo, Susana; Carvalho, Helena; Cruz‐Machado, V. - In: Baltic Journal of Management 8 (2013) 2, pp. 208-230

Purpose – The main purpose of this paper is to identify and rank a set of performance measures using the approach of interpretive structural modelling (ISM) to support the evaluation of automotive supply chain performance. Design/methodology/approach – The paper develops a framework to...

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Dynamic performance assessment of a supply chain process : A case from pharmaceutical supply chain in India

Kumar, Anup; Mukherjee, Kampan; Adlakha, Amit - In: Business Process Management Journal 21 (2015) 4, pp. 743-770

Purpose – A variety of tools are available to measure supply chain efficiency, but there are a few methods available for assessing efficiency in dynamic environments. The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the use of data envelopment analysis (DEA) with the help vector auto regression in...

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A research and industry perspective on automotive logistics performance measurement

Dörnhöfer, Martin; Günthner, Willibald A. - In: The International Journal of Logistics Management 28 (2017) 1, pp. 102-126

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to assess the current state of performance measurement (PM) in academic literature and in the automotive supply chain (SC). The research question is to what extent PM systems (PMS) in academic literature and in industry are applicable in automotive logistics....

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I don’t know much about art but I know what I like : Measuring and managing supply quality in a publishing company

Donaldson‐Briggs, Amanda; Peters, John; Whitfield, Richard - In: International Journal of Physical Distribution & … 32 (2002) 10, pp. 872-880

This is a case study discussion drawn from scholarly publishers Emerald, formerly MCB University Press. It discusses the unusual “supply circle” phenomenon in scholarly publishing, where authors (suppliers) are often the same people as readers (customers). It addresses this from the...

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New criteria of performance management : A transition from enterprise to collaborative supply chain

Basu, Ron - In: Measuring Business Excellence 5 (2001) 4, pp. 7-12

The emergence of a global manufacturing and outsourcing network and the real time transparency of information via the Internet have redefined the business performance management process. New metrics are emerging as externally focused and adaptive for competing in the collaborative economy of...

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Dealing with supply chain risks : Linking risk management practices and strategies to performance

Wieland, Andreas; Wallenburg, Carl Marcus - In: International Journal of Physical Distribution & … 42 (2012) 10, pp. 887-905

Purpose – The effects of supply chain risk management (SCRM) on the performance of a supply chain remain unexplored. It is assumed that SCRM helps supply chains to cope with vulnerabilities both proactively by supporting robustness and reactively by supporting agility. Both dimensions are...

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