Table of contents - Special Issue: Transferring best practices between the manufacturing and service sectors ‐ Part 1
Guest Editors: Michel Leseure, Mel HudsonSmith
Investigating humanitarian logistics issues: from operations management to strategic action
Jérôme Chandes, Gilles PachéThe purpose of this paper is to underline the advantages offered by applying the collective strategy model in the context of humanitarian logistics, enriching the existing…
Blurring the boundary: convergence of factory and service processes
Joel Goldhar, Daniel BergIn order to emphasize the universality of operations management concepts, this paper develops an integrative view of the similarities and continuities between “services products”…
The concept of modularity: diffusion from manufacturing to service production
Anu Bask, Mervi Lipponen, Mervi Rajahonka, Markku TinniläModules and modularity have been popular concepts in operations research and management rhetoric for decades. Nevertheless, it seems that there is no single universal definition…
Demand‐supply chain representation: A tool for economic organizing of industrial services
Jan Holmström, Timo Ala‐Risku, Jaana Auramo, Jari Collin, Eero Eloranta, Antti SalminenThe purpose of this paper is to propose demand‐supply chain representation as a tool to support economic organizing between original equipment manufacturers going downstream and…
Implementation of Lean‐Kaizen in the human resource service process: A case study in a Mexican public service organisation
Manuel F. Suárez‐Barraza, Juan Ramis‐PujolOver the last decade, some Mexican public organisations have begun to enter into a dynamic in which issues such as service quality, ongoing improvement, and internal and external…
Transferring Lean into government
Zoe RadnorThis paper evaluates the transfer of a Lean approach developed by a global manufacturing and logistics company into a large UK Government department. The purpose of this paper is…
ISSN:
1741-038XRenamed from:
Integrated Manufacturing SystemsOnline date, start – end:
2004Copyright Holder:
Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditor:
- Prof Harm-Jan Steenhuis