Innovations in Competitive Manufacturing is an examination of manufacturing innovations - both technical and knowledge-based. Over the recent past, technology has created dramatic changes in manufacturing. As a result, the book focuses on the use of technology in gaining competitive advantage in...

Purpose: This paper investigates the inter-relationships among supply integration, demand integration and internal integration in the context of food banking. Design/methodology/approach: This study utilizes survey data from managers at 71 different food banks in the US combined with secondary...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to verify whether product orientation (make‐to‐order versus make‐to‐stock) affects how coordination mechanisms combine to influence quality performance in total quality management (TQM). Design/methodology/approach – The authors used survey...

A recent National Research Council (NRC) report (2011) recommends that universities must craft policies and allocate resources to enable more university startups because some university technologies will never be commercialized unless licensed to a startup. However, the creation of university...