Managing the related but distinct processes of" product design and engineering" and
manufacturing in an integrated way poses significant challenges for many industrial …

Purpose Lean manufacturing (LM) concepts have been widely adopted in diverse industrial
sectors. However, no literature review focusing on case studies describing LM …

Purpose–The theories of transaction‐cost economics, the resource‐based view and the core
competencies approach have been used extensively to justify the rationale behind strategic …

This edited book has presented a selected range of contributions, based on the results of the
EU Plant Automation Based on Distributed Systems (PABADIS) and PABADIS based …

This article provides an introduction to evolutionary psychology and its relevance to
organizational design theory and practice. Evolutionary psychology assumes that human …

Traditionally, most literature has focused on the impact of Order Entry Points on
manufacturing and logistics. Current literature about these entry points undervalues the …

This article puts forward a conceptual model for understanding the influence of the learning
organization's five disciplines on knowledge management processes. It proposes that the …

This book examines the military characteristics and potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in
the new global revolution in military affairs. Offering an original perspective on the utilization …

Group technology has been studied extensively from an 'industrial engineering'perspective
(layout, scheduling, workflow, etc.), but less often from an organisational design viewpoint …

Purpose The rising complexity of business changes has increasingly highlighted the
requirements to provide a comprehensive and empirical framework for the supply chain …