Cover -- CONTENTS -- EDITORIAL REVIEW BOARD -- Guest editorial -- The manufacturing extraprise: an emerging production network paradigm -- Strategic roles of manufacturing -- The evolution of production systems and conceptual frameworks -- Strategic options-based framework for management of...

Developing countries depend on foreign providers to ensure successful adoption of new technology. This paper investigates the role of buyer-supplier relationships (BSR) in technology adoption using a survey of 147 Malaysian firms. In particular the authors examined the impact on performance of...

This paper explores the practical developments in manufacturing technology management over the last 22 years and links these to some of the subject trends of previous articles in the Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management. Themes and relevant articles have been identified from the...

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate analytically how entrepreneurial action as learning relating to diversifying into technical clothing – i.e. a high value manufacturing sector – can take place. This is particularly relevant to recent discussion and debate in academic and...