Industry descriptions often depict science‐driven industries as a single industry class, dominated by explicit knowledge in the form of patents, blueprints, diagrams, etc. This one‐dimensional view limits our ability to effectively manage the activities and routines across various stages of...

The transition from the standard industrial classification (SIC) system to the North American industrial classification system (NAICS) will not be rapid, but its effects will be profound for business researchers and information professionals. Most government agencies are already in the midst of...

Declares that too many employees either waste time and energy worrying about where the boundaries of their duties and responsibilities lie, or they are subject to initiative stifled by inflexible job specifications. Employs 2 Figures, one that gives the definitions of workset colours — defined...

Presents the similarity coefficient method for group technology to alleviate the part family formation problem in flexible manufacturing systems (FMS). Part families are formed in FMS in order to take advantage of part similarities in design and manufacture. Parts coding and classification...

Technological innovation is a major competitive input that directly translates into long‐term competitive advantage. Presents the results of research that examines innovative activity by country, based on several measures of technological performance. The patterns of inventiveness reported...

The use of Statistical Process Control (SPC) techniques for monitoring manufacturing processes in mass production is relatively easy. In small‐batch manufacture, however, such techniques can be difficult to implement due to lack of sufficient data to establish control decisions for control...

One of the main functions of culture is division of labour among various actors in society. Since the global environment is characterised by diverse and deep‐rooted cultural norms and value systems, the nature of this division of labour across cultures should exhibit systematic differences....