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manufacturing concerns for greater flexibility, faster reaction and greater reliability in respect of delivery times and quality …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to compare the supply chain strategy, flexibility, and performance relationships … strategy, flexibility, and performance in the context of supply chain. The survey results revealed that SMEs in Pakistan adopt … literature did not reveal any study which attempted to compare supply chain strategy, flexibility, and performance of SMEs in …
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strategies (redundancy and flexibility) with particular risk contexts (severity and probability of risk occurrence). The paper …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the extent to which supply side flexibility tactics are deployed by …, secondary data are reviewed for each type of internal flexibility capability. This is supplemented by a qualitative Delphi … exploit the flexibility tactics that were available to them. This improved in 2010 and contributed to an upturn in performance …
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Purpose The conceptualization of flexibility in organizations historically emerged from three views which relate to … flexibility in the area of supply chain management, there is a lack of consensus on how to define and to conceptualize supply … chain flexibility from a management point of view. The purpose of this paper is to present a comprehensive overview of the …
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Purpose – The aim of this paper is to consider empirical evidence on the strategic behaviour of rural SMEs compared to urban SMEs in times of difficult economic conditions. The authors build the paper from a theoretical discussion that suggests that there will be distinctive differences in...
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Proposes that the understanding of innovation, as so far revealed by academics, has only given a limited insight into what really happens when people innovate. Previous studies have researched innovation using perspectives and methodologies which were unable to reveal what people actually do...
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Examines the concept of adaptation as it relates to the start‐up and survival of small businesses over time. Adaptation is approached as the making of appropriate adjustments to the business and its strategic focus, as the venture evolves from an initial idea to a successful business. It is...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate alternative measures to better understand and measure success for self-employed mothers in addition to the usual financial indicators. Design/methodology/approach – The present study is a comparative analysis of time spent at work and...
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