Drawing upon resource dependence theory, this study investigates the linkages from supplier partnership and customer relationship to internal lean practices. Furthermore, this study investigates the linkages from internal lean practices (ILP) to operational performance and organizational...

Research linking investments in environmental practices to firm performance has matured over the past years. However, empirical research is still ambiguous on how and whether investments in environmental practices improve a plant's performance. We believe that contingency factors, especially the...

An important class of models for macroscopic dynamic network loading (DNL) and dynamic traffic assignment (DTA) is based on treating link travel times as a function of link occupancy. However, these models suffer from some problems or deficiencies namely (a) the link outflows can violate...

Organisation theorists have long been aware of the organisational problems caused by environmental uncertainty. Recently supply chain theorists have identified the same issue for supply chains. It is the premise of this paper that one possible way of reducing these problems is through the use of...

This paper investigates the importance of quality management practices for the success of environmental management initiatives. It has been recently established that sustainability initiatives whether in terms of social or environmental investments can improve organizational performance....

Two bodies of literature have tended to dominate in the area of quality: one has emerged from the manufacturing/operations management discipline, the other from services and marketing. The interface between both schools of thought is addressed less frequently, probably reflecting the traditional...

This paper is concerned with the study of the constant due-date assignment policy in repetitive projects, where the activity durations are exponentially distributed random variables. It is then extended to the case where activity durations follow generalized Erlang distributions. The main...