A large‐scale random sample is used to empirically examine the relationships between adoption of computer‐aided design (CAD) and five organisational characteristics that are likely to affect the probability of a firm adopting an information technology. The organisational characteristics...

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Purpose – The purpose of this research is to provide empirical evidence on the relationships among new technologies, innovative work practices and upskilling in the Spanish case. Design/methodology/approach – Using detailed plant-level data from a survey of Spanish manufacturing firms, we...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of managers’ perception of the importance of aspects of competition on levels of deployment of contemporary management accounting practices (CMAPs) and analyzing that impact on levels of implementation of innovative managerial...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the enablers for improving the utilization level of advanced manufacturing technologies (AMTs) in Indian manufacturing industry. Design/methodology/approach – In this paper, a large number of manufacturing organizations have been extensively...

Purpose – This paper aims to focus on identifying various human enablers that could influence the performance of a firm using advanced manufacturing systems (AMSs), and to develop a framework to manage them through an analytical case study. Design/methodology/approach – In this work, digraph...

This paper investigates adoption of Advanced Manufacturing Technologies (AMT) in India. AMT in India have been classified into three levels (simple – Level I, modest – Level II, and sophisticated – Level III) for the present analysis. A general conclusion can be reached that Indian firms...