Purpose: Identifying possible ergonomic risks generated by the implementation of Lean Manufacturing in organizations. Shows a need to integrate ergonomics and productivity indicators in process analysis, thus giving place to the ErgoVSM methodology, which is VSM (Value Stream Mapping)...

Purpose: The majority of a company's improvement comes when the right workers with the right skills, behaviors and capacities are deployed appropriately throughout a company. This paper considers a workforce scheduling model including human aspects such as skills, training, workers'...

AI and Big Data provide opportunities and challenges with respect to how we achieve safety in livable smart cities. In this contribution, we look at set of aspects that are important at the city level; namely, how urban analytics and digital technologies can be used; how crime safety is influenced...

Die Informationstransparenz ist zum Spiegelbild der Offenheit von Unternehmen geworden. Ein Beispiel dafür ist die Erfassung und Veröffentlichung von Kundenrezensionen im Internet. Ihre Bedeutung nimmt vor dem Hintergrund der Verlagerung von Kaufentscheidungsprozessen vom stationären Handel...

Prior research has shown that users are a valuable resource for identifying new product or service innovations. However, few scholars have analyzed how different user types such as intermediate and end users are interacting along the value chain of an emerging new product and how they contribute...