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...

Purpose – This study investigates the association of international orientation and market orientation and their joint effects on export market success. Additionally, it examines how firms' foreign market portfolio diversity moderates this association. Design – On the basis of a review of the...

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...

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...

Manufacturing competitiveness is imperative to enhance economic sustainability and to make meaningful contribution to the GDP of any nation. For example in 2015 while the manufacturing industry in Nigeria contributed about 9 percent to the GDP, in India, the manufacturing sector contributed...

What is a disruptive innovation? This study confronts this question here by presenting different approaches, which endeavor to explain the dynamic behavior of disruptive technologies in competitive markets. Firstly, this study introduces destructive technology as a radical innovation, based on...

The array of incidences of corporate failure and poor performance witnessed in the economy recently cannot be unconnected to the activities in the political environment surrounding business operations. Thus, the study focuses on the influence of the political environment on firms' corporate...

The paper examine the employee welfare facilities in Adugodi based manufacture Industry to know the effectiveness of employee welfare facilities. To achieve the above aim, the study developed objectives and hypothesis to meet the requirements. For the analysis purpose was tested the percentage...

Intellectual Capital (IC) has been argued to be the key element of value creation in the contemporary economy. According to the results obtained in [Molnar, 2004] in the 1980s the share of tangible assets accounted for about 62% of market capitalization of companies on developed markets....

Objective – The main objective of this study is to investigate strategic reward systems that are intrinsic and extrinsic reward for employees. The rewards address four areas that consist of compensation, benefits, recognition and appreciation. This study discussed whether the reward system...