Purpose – Despite general awareness and acceptance of the benefit of strategic planning/alignment of IS strategy with business strategy, few efforts have been made to define and study the relationship. A review of literature has revealed that past studies have largely neglected the specific...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to understand current practices in capital budgeting (including real options) in Indian companies and provide a normative framework (guidelines) for practitioners (based on our findings and literature reviewed). Design/methodology/approach – A...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to establish the importance of human resource (HR) practices in achieving high levels of supply chain (SC) integration through a conceptual framework (depicting the moderation effect of HR practices on the relationship between information sharing and SC...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to analyze the role of employees’ career management processes and the relationship between human capital and interim leadership role importance. Design/methodology/approach – Responses of 413 Indian manufacturing employees with middle or top‐level...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to derive an economic order quantity (EOQ) for an inventory control problem where the inventory carrying cost and the order cost are uncertain, represented by fuzzy numbers. The fuzzy numbers used herein are most general so far, represented by adaptive...

Purpose – Machine scheduling plays an important role in most manufacturing industries and has received a great amount of attention from operation researchers. Production scheduling is concerned with the allocation of resources and the sequencing of tasks to produce goods and services....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to solve a flexible job shop scheduling problem where alternate machines are available to process the same job. The study considers the Flexible Job Shop Problem (FJSP) having n jobs and more than three machines for scheduling. Design/methodology/approach...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a methodology using quality function deployment (QFD) approach for aligning competitive strategy with supply chain strategy. Design/methodology/approach – QFD and utility‐based optimization approach are employed to achieve strategic fit...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study the impact of information technology (IT) capabilities on an organization's performance. It investigates the effect of adoption of IT on the market share of the small and medium enterprise. Design/methodology/approach – The system dynamics...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present and test a methodology, extending the concept of hierarchical Petri nets, to discover conflicts in a distribution channel. Design/methodology/approach – The approach involves linking different levels of the supply chain and detecting...