This e-book includes a selection of papers from the first EUROMA-POMS Joint International Conference organized by Politecnico di Milano and Università di Padova, on June 16th - 18th 2003. The conference was held in Como, Italy and hosted 447 participants.

This paper tells the story of Geox, an Italian footwear manufacturer that, in less than a decade, has become one of the world's largest shoe manufacturers. Applying the related notions of complementarity and performance landscape to study strategic positioning in the footwear industry, we show...

Many theoretical contributions and lots of empirical evidence suggest that there are benefits to be gained from integrating purchasing, manufacturing and logistics. Though organizational and operations management scholars recognize that communication is a key antecedent of internal integration,...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to deal with the transfer of lean practices between different units in multi-plant organizations with different levels of adoption of lean practices. It investigates how certain influential contextual variables – i.e. lean standards development, lean...

Supply chain management (SCM) is conceived by academics and practitioners as either an extension of logistics or an all‐encompassing approach to business integration. From the authors’ point of view, SCM involves not only logistic activities but also other processes such as quality...