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Not so different altogether: Putting Lean and sociotechnical design into practice in a process industry

2021

Purpose: The shop-floor organization under lean production (LP) has been hotly debated for about three decades. As this organization concept leaves considerable room for interpretation, the content of lean-inspired changes can vary widely. This paper pleads for a contingency view of how LP is implemented and how the outcomes of lean-inspired changes rely on users’ interpretations of the concept in particular production contexts.Design/methodology/approach: A case study was conducted in two large Norwegian chemical plants. Data from the observations and interviews were supplemented by interviews with top managers in 2017 and 2018. The first author also followed a management audit in one plan…

TechnologyProcess managementADOPTIONlcsh:T55.4-60.8VDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200::Økonomi: 210::Samfunnsøkonomi: 212Strategy and Managementmedia_common.quotation_subjectContingency theory:Economia i organització d'empreses::Direcció d'operacions [Àrees temàtiques de la UPC]Lean productionControl de gestióORGANIZATIONAuditlcsh:BusinessProduccióLean manufacturingIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineeringlcsh:Social SciencesEngineeringddc:650Lean manufacturinglcsh:Industrial engineering. Management engineeringProduction (economics)ImplementationSociotechnical designmedia_commonlcsh:CommerceScience & TechnologyProducció ajustadaOrganization conceptsInterpretation (philosophy)Production (Economic theory)PERFORMANCElean production contingency theory organization concepts sociotechnical designlcsh:HContingency theorylcsh:HF1-6182Engineering IndustrialControllershipPRODUCTION SYSTEMSBusinesslcsh:HF5001-6182ContingencyAutonomyJournal of Industrial Engineering and Management

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The Role of Consulting Services in Promoting Competitive Culture

2019

Maintaining a normal competitive environment on the market is the core objective of the competition authorities. Policies and regulations applied in pursuit of this purpose have the role of identifying and eliminating situations of constraint on free competition. The developing market of Moldova is characterized by a low level of the competitive culture. Therefore, the business community have few knowledge and understanding of competition policies and regulations, relatively new in this market. In other cases, the lack of cooperation with competition authorities leads to erroneous information and ineffective decisions. In this context, the consultancy in the field of competition presents o…

TheoryofComputation_MISCELLANEOUScompetition advocacyBusiness communityCompetitive relationshipContext (language use)General Medicinelcsh:BusinessCompetition lawconsulting servicesCompetition (economics)Businesslcsh:HF5001-6182Constraint (mathematics)competititive cultureIndustrial organizationMednarodno Inovativno Poslovanje

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Simultaneous Vehicle and Crew Routing and Scheduling for Partial- and Full-Load Long-Distance Road Transport

2013

AbstractThis paper studies a simultaneous vehicle and crew routing and scheduling problem arising in long-distance road transport in Europe: Pickup-and-delivery requests have to be fulfilled over a multi-period planning horizon by a heterogeneous fleet of trucks and drivers. Typically, in the vehicle routing literature, a fixed assignment of a driver to a truck is assumed. In our approach, we abandon this assumption and allow truck/driver changes at geographically dispersed relay stations. This offers greater planning flexibility and allows a better utilization of trucks, but also creates intricate interdependencies between trucks and drivers and requires the synchronization of their routes…

TruckJob shop schedulingOperations researchfull truckload transportationComputer scienceForwarderCrewTime horizonlcsh:BusinessVehicle routing problemddc:650Business Management and Accounting (miscellaneous)media_common.cataloged_instanceRouting (electronic design automation)European unionlcsh:HF5001-6182crew schedulingsynchronizationvehicle routingmedia_commonBusiness Research

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Competence Utilization for Innovation Capabilities - A Question of Trust?

2015

The purpose of this paper is to show how trust as an organizational value contributes to employee competence utilization in the case of innovation capability. Thus, it is the objective of this paper to analyze the positive impacts, but also potential limits of trust in business management. The research paper uses two different quantitative empirical studies drawn from German and Austrian mid-sized companies to empirically test this interrelation. As a result, the paper determines particular aspects of trust such as accountability, shared norms and the ability to take responsibility to be interrelated with the usage of employee competences and underlines a positive connection between product…