Callen, Jeffrey L.; Morel, Mindy; Fader, Chris - In: Managerial and Decision Economics 24 (2003) 5, pp. 393-402
Qualitative survey studies and a recent quantitative study by Callen et al. (2000) indicate that JIT manufacturing is more profitable than conventional non-JIT manufacturing. This study tests the hypothesis that the excess profitability of JIT manufacturing just compensates for the additional...