This study used the support of extant theory to propose that there are significant differences in the postures of firms that include logistics providers in their supply chain management efforts versus those that do not. Further, we identified four supply chain management constructs as being...

Much of the research on operations scheduling problems has either ignored setup times or assumed that setup times on each machine are independent of the job sequence. This paper considers the problem of scheduling a single machine for minimizing total tardiness in a sequence dependent setup...

By proposing a conceptual outline for a general model that explains the internationalization-performance link, we test the moderating effects of organizational learning on the relationship between internationalization and performance empirically. Integrating two distinct literature streams from...

It is generally assumed that the performance of a firm improves with greatermultinationality. Yet recent empirical studies have shown both a U-shapedrelationship (which suggests an initially negative effect of international expansionon performance, before the positive returns of international...

Evidence from the literature on cellular manufacturing suggests that shops configured as manufacturing cells perform poorly compared to job shops. However, cellular shops, being conducive to the use of teams in the assignment of production activities, have the potential to yield higher...

In recent years, numerous approaches have been proposed to improve operations performance. Three in particular, just in time, supply chain management, and quality management, have received considerable attention. While the three are sometimes viewed and implemented as if they were independent...