From 2005 to 2011 Abbott Diagnostics Longford's reagent manufacturing facility was
primarily focused on transferring products from its sister site in Chicago and ramping up …

Purpose Evolved from Toyota's shop floor in Japan, lean bundles are universally accepted
for boosting manufacturing performance. However, extant literature shows mixed findings on …

Organisations employ third-party certification for various purposes including to signal
commitment to sustainability compliance and equivalence with stakeholders. However …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand how a continuous improvement (CI)
approach like lean production (LP) integration is affected by dynamic conditions and to …

Purpose:'Company Specific Production Systems'(XPS) aim to adopt 'best practice'across
plants within a company. A pertinent issue in the literature involves the constraints in the …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse the prerequisites for lateral knowledge
transfer in manufacturing networks. Design/methodology/approach Data stem from a single …

Purpose This paper sets out to identify barriers to intra-network exchange within
international manufacturing networks (IMNs) from the micro-level perspective of key actors at …

In the current global economy, with an increased international presence of all types of
organisations, the design and management of global operations networks (GON) plays a …

Intense competition in hotly contested markets, rising customer claims and high technology
dynamics place high demands on industry. Further challenges are posed by the increasing …

How can a multinational firm simultaneously improve the productivity of all its factories? A
popular answer is to develop and deploy multi-plant production improvement programmes …