Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate how the internet of things (IoT) contributes to manufacturers' advanced services development and delivery. To better understand the creation of these IoT contributions, the study adopts a socio-technical research perspective, which expands...

Purpose: This paper reviews current literature and contributes a set of findings that capture the current state-of-the-art of the topic of green production. Design/methodology/approach: A literature review to capture, classify and summarize the main body of knowledge on green production and,...

This thesis is concerned with the decision process of strategic positioning withinglobal supply chains. The research provides insights into how companiescurrently form positioning decisions, and set out to develop a systematicmethodology to assist practitioners in forming their strategic...

There appears to be an ever insatiable demand from markets for organisations toimprove their products and services. In response, the concept of Business ProcessImprovement (BPI) has been developed in recent years as a useful aid. Unfortunately,there is no robust methodology that practitioners...