Purpose – Previous research showed that there are some barriers which hinder the implementation of total quality … management (TQM) in organizations. But no study has been undertaken to understand the interaction among these barriers and to … develop a hierarchy of TQM barriers model. There is an urgent need to analyze the behavior of these barriers so that TQM may …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify reported barriers to benchmarking and strategies to surmount these … barriers. Design/methodology/approach – The study is a qualitative meta‐analysis of 32 peer‐reviewed sources from January 2005 … benchmarking barriers and to follow best practices for addressing these impediments. Originality/value – Given the limited amount …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the barriers to coordination in humanitarian supply chain management … (HSCM), proposes solutions and prioritizes them to overcome the barriers particularly in the Indian context. Design …/methodology/approach – This study adopts a comprehensive and rigorous procedure to explore the barriers and solutions to coordination in HSCM. The …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine benchmarking barriers among Nigerian facilities management (FM … barriers called the market category of benchmarking barriers and further distinguished benchmarking barriers based on two forms … of benchmarking which is informal and formal benchmarking. Also there are limited studies on benchmarking barriers in …

study focuses on identifying the barriers to closed-loop supply chain (CLSC) in the electronic industry. Design …/methodology/approach A framework for analyzing the relationships among CLSC adoption barriers is designed. The authors adopted the decision …-making trial and evaluation laboratory (DEMATEL) technique to determine the critical barriers of electronic CLSC from the opinion …

Purpose The study explores the potential barriers to data science (DS) implementation in organizations and identifies … the key barriers. The identified barriers were explored for their interconnectedness and characteristics. This study aims … to help organizations formulate apt DS strategies by providing a close-to-reality DS implementation framework of barriers …

(SSCM) practices. This study aims to identify SSCM's barriers, practices and performance (BPP) indicators in the HVEI … firms and supply chain partners are the key barriers to SSCM in the HVEI. This analysis also revealed a set of policies …, programmes and procedures that manufacturers have adopted to address SSCM barriers. The most common SSCM performance indicators …

. However, its adoption poses several challenges. This study investigates and ranks the drivers and barriers to implementing …