We use daily administrative data from a leading automobile manufacturer to study the organizational impacts of introducing new models to the auto assembly line. We first show that costly defects per vehicle spike when new models are introduced. As a response, the firm trains in problem-solving...

A prevalent feature of the global economy is the relevance of trade in intermediates due to production fragmentation. This phenomenon has led to the revival and development of trade models that include inter-industry relations. A wide variety of Ricardian trade models cope with this feature. In...

Every organization's response to environmental challenges is to improve quality by adopting modern concepts and a new approach to quality. This includes, of course, the developed and implemented quality management systems. Ensuring quality and managing it today is an inevitability, so a great...

This paper studies the impact of robot adoption on firms' global sourcing activities. Using a rich panel dataset of Spanish manufacturing firms, we show that robot adopting firms increased their intermediate input purchases from foreign and domestic suppliers between 2006 and 2016. The effects...

Does the offshoring of production degrade or enhance the innovative capabilities of manufacturing firms? We contribute to this debate by exploiting a policy shock that differentially affected the ability of Taiwanese firms to offshore some products to China. We find causal evidence that...

Einführung in Logistik und Supply Chain Management -- Computational Intelligence -- Transportprobleme -- Bestandsplanung und Losgrößenbestimmung -- Scheduling -- Standortplanung und Netzwerkgestaltung -- Intelligente Software für die Logistik.

We use daily administrative data from a leading automobile manufacturer to study the organizational impacts of introducing new models to the auto assembly line. We first show that costly defects per vehicle spike when new models are introduced. As a response, the firm trains in problem-solving...

We present a real options model of a firm's make-or-buy decision under demand uncertainty. "Making" is subject to decreasing returns to scale, fixed costs and capital investment. "Buying" happens at a fixed price and requires no investment. Three distinct procurement regimes endogenously arise:...

The book considers a range of conceptual debates around labour regimes and global production relating to issues of scale, informality, race, social reproduction, the labour process and migration as well as in relation to methods, theory and research practice.

"With the paradigm shift in consumption habits during the COVID-19 pandemic accelerating the digital transformation of supply-chain operations, Configured by Consumption offers a timely reflection on the technological evolution of production-consumption cycles since the genesis of...

1. The Modern Lean Enterprise -- Part I: Rising of the Digital Economy -- 2. The Displacement of the Economy -- 3. The Post Industrial Factory -- Part II: Lean in Theory -- 4. Principles of Lean Production -- 5. Lean Flow: A Method -- 6. Successful Implementation -- 7. Modern Lean Thinking --...

"Chapter 1 Lean Production as the Dominant Division of Labor: Theories, Industries and National Contexts Thomas Janoski and Darina Lepadatu CH1-JanoskiLepadatu-3-5-20=15,619) The International Handbook of Lean Production provides an overall argument that lean systems are the dominant division of...

This handbook focuses on two sides of the lean production debate that rarely interact. On the one hand, management and industrial engineering scholars have presented a positive view of lean production as the epitome of efficiency and quality. On the other hand, sociology, industrial relations,...

Effective layout designs are necessary in many different businesses such as manufacturing facilities, assembly systems, warehouses, production and operations, retail stores, schools, office buildings, airports, health care (e.g., hospitals), utility providers (e.g.,water and sewer facilities),...

The fragmentation of production across borders allows firms to make and export final goods, or to perform only intermediate stages of production by processing imported inputs for re-exporting. We examine how financial frictions affect companies’ choice between processing and ordinary trade -...

The fragmentation of production across borders allows firms to make and export final goods, or to perform only intermediate stages of production by processing imported inputs for re-exporting. We examine how financial frictions affect companies' choice between processing and ordinary trade –...

The fragmentation of production across borders allows firms to make and export final goods, or to perform only intermediate stages of production by processing imported inputs for re-exporting. We examine how financial frictions affect companies' choice between processing and ordinary trade –...

"Over the past seven decades-since the 1949 Revolution-every aspect of Chinese society has been profoundly transformed multiple times. No sector has experienced more tumultuous twists and turns than industry. The eight articles contained in this volume examine these twists and turns, focusing on...