RFID technology promises to improve a broad range of processes in logistics and manufacturing. However, market acceptance of RFID develops slower than anticipated. One likely reason is the difficulty to evaluate the resulting effects beforehand. A lot of research has already been conducted on...

Purpose: It is a fact that there is a great deal of knowledge gap in the existing supply chain management literature, especially on sustainable practices followed by emerging-markets manufacturing industries. Therefore, this paper aims to study sustainable supply chain practices and its...

The article explores the role of labor reforms and manufacturing industries as a viable option for India to take the benefit of globalization for ensuring inclusive growth. The economic performance of India over the last one decade is phenomenal. After experiencing slow down in the worst global...

I report the results of observations of management practices in 20 Russian manufacturing subsidiaries of Western multinational corporations (MNCs). I argue that to counterbalance the higher country-specific risks associated with investing in Russia, MNCs impose on their Russian subsidiaries high...

The purpose of this research study is to analyze the factors that prevent small and medium size enterprises from implementing lean manufacturing processes and show, that by not implementing lean they are missing out on savings, efficient workforce, and new markets in the globalization arena....

Based on three case studies, a new Lean financial model is developed. This new model improves the organization by increasing Lean goal congruent behavior. The new financial (costing) model uses the waste categories known from Lean in order to create decision information for Lean decisions such...

5S is a basic framework of workplace organization that focus on sort, set in order, shine, standardizes and Sustain. This methodology is used to attain lean in the manufacturing system by eliminating the wastage that are about to occur because of the untidy, unhealthy work environment. This...

This paper studies how a retailer decides the length of product line in a vertically related industry. We study a market with two product varieties. Each retailer decides the number of varieties it procures from an upstream manufacturer. The manufacturer may open an online store and encroach on...

Purpose: This study sought to determine the influence of strategic physical resources on performance of small and medium manufacturing enterprises in Kenya. Anchored on the Resource Based View (RBV) theory the study adopted positivism research philosophy descriptive and causal-effect research...