The paper focuses to identify various critical success factors that could influence the implementation of newly proposed manufacturing system i.e., humanised flexible manufacturing system (HFMS), and develop a framework to manage them. Interpretive structural modelling (ISM) is used to depict...

Purchasing departments continuously work to improve their supply chains. Rather than switching from one supplier to another as problems arise, many companies have initiated supplier development programs to improve their performance. However, only about 50% of these programs achieve the company's...

Business process reengineering (BPR) is a fundamental rethinking and radical redesign of business processes to achieve dramatic improvements in critical contemporary measures of performance such as cost, quality, speed and services (Al-Mashari and Zairi, 1999). However, the importance of BPR as...

This study aims to find out how to successfully operate a social enterprise making optimum use of social problem-solving capabilities and revenues management strategies. Specifically, this study seeks to identify the key success factors for managing social enterprises and to provide strategies...

This study aims to gain insight into criteria (detailed market study, business/financial analysis, business/financial analysis before promotion, resource allocation) that contribute to the success of new service development (NSD) ventures in sectors of tourism economy and focusing especially on...

The global environmental change indicates that there is a need to modify conventional industrial development pathways to promote green enterprises that are resource and energy efficient, low waste, non-polluting, and safe. This study describes green initiatives which export-oriented textile...

Massive unemployment, increasing dissension and despotic and corrupt authorities have created an ideal environment for the emergence of civil and democratic movements whose main objectives are to create and foster democracy. African spring is seeking to facilitate an equitable distribution of...

This study aims to analyse the impact of public-private partnerships (PPPs) in the ecotourism sector. The main research objectives are to identify motives, critical success factors and obstacles for partnerships between the public and private sectors in ecotourism and to assess the benefits of...