This study explores the mechanism of building an effective linkage among manufacturing practices that is a basic attribute of high performance manufacturing. High performance manufacturing companies are those that sustain high levels of performance over time. We propose a strategic management...

Many production plants are pursuing responsiveness (i.e., timely purposeful change guided by external demands) as one of their main performance priorities and are looking for ways for their responsiveness to be improved. One of the ways that they are currently trying to do this is through the...

Many industries face open, global markets with requirements for rapid response and low costs. Given the major role that technology plays in business competitiveness, proper technology management (T) in combination with a good production strategy (S), is important to address current challenges....

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Las Fiestas de Primavera de Sevilla (FPS) constituyen el principal evento cultural de la ciudad con importantes implicaciones sociales, turísticas y económicas. Nuestro trabajo analiza esta dimensión de la cultura de la ciudad en un doble plano. Por un lado, se lleva a cabo una...

The Chilean agricultural sector presents management problems, which indirectly affect their competitiveness and profitability. The objective of this work is to analysis the implementation process of Chilean Standard 2909 in middle units of cherry production in Curicó Province, Region Del Maule....

Multiobjective shortest path problems are computationally harder than single objective ones. In particular, execution time is an important limiting factor in exact multiobjective search algorithms. This paper explores the possibility of improving search performance in those cases where the...

En La aldea perdida (1903), de Armando Palacio Valdés, encontramos un buen muestrario de los principales planÃ?¬teamientos anti-industrialistas del momento. De hecho, la novela enlaza con el anti-industrialismo Ã?Â?fin de sigloÃ?Â? y también con los recelos del catolicismo social...