Strategic agility in international business: A conceptual framework for “agile” multinationals

R Shams, D Vrontis, Z Belyaeva, A Ferraris… - Journal of International …, 2021 - Elsevier
Strategic agility is a fuzzy concept that may be counter intuitive as well as confounding to
some scholars in terms of the agile strategies' contextual issues. At the same time, the need …

A literature review on agility-is there a need to develop a new instrument?

SA Haider, S Tehseen, S Khan… - International …, 2021 - repositorio.ipsantarem.pt
The current research provides a review of the literature while contributing to the academic
understanding of agility concepts and their backgrounds. The study identified 73 peer …

Laughter at last: playfulness and laughter in interaction

E Holt - Journal of Pragmatics, 2016 - Elsevier
Conversation analysis is used to examine a collection of sequences involving playful turns
that are not immediately explicitly framed as laughable through laughter. Rather, laughter by …

Exploring the factors of achieving supply chain excellence: a New Zealand perspective

W Luo, Y Shi, VG Venkatesh - Production Planning & Control, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
The objective of the paper is to analyse supply chain (SC) excellence from the practitioners'
perspective in the New Zealand (NZ) context. The extant literature does not focus on …

Analyzing the barriers to implementation of mass customization in Indian SMEs using integrated ISM-MICMAC and SEM

I Ullah, R Narain - Journal of Advances in Management Research, 2021 - emerald.com
Purpose The purpose of this research is to identify the crucial barriers to the implementation
of mass customization (MC) in Indian SMEs and to investigate the interactions among them …

Agility assessment in manufacturing companies

M Rahiminezhad Galankashi, SA Helmi… - Benchmarking: An …, 2019 - emerald.com
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose a framework to assess the agility of
manufacturing companies. Design/methodology/approach Particularly, three supply chain …

[BOEK][B] Essential guide to operations management: Concepts and case notes

D Bamford, P Forrester, I Reid - 2023 - taylorfrancis.com
The revised and updated second edition of the popular and practical guide to contemporary
operations management–now featuring a new chapter on managing sustainable supply …

[PDF][PDF] Supply chain business intelligence and the supply chain performance: The mediating role of supply chain agility

W Aunyawong, P Waiyawuththanapoom… - International Journal of …, 2020 - core.ac.uk
The study has planned to examine the impact of the supply chain business intelligence on
the supply chain performance of the Indonesian firms. Additionally, the study has examined …

How interfirm governance mechanisms and capabilities determine supply chain responsiveness in small businesses: Evidence from an African market

D Essuman, D Asamoah, EK Anin - Africa Journal of Management, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
This paper examines whether supply chain capabilities (ie, collaboration and coordination)
mediate the relationships between interfirm governance mechanisms (ie, formal control and …

Is the Agile Development Method the Way to Go for Small to Medium Enterprises (SMEs) In Saudi Arabia?

R Bin-Hezam, A Bin-Essa… - 2018 21st Saudi …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Agile software development is based on iterative and incremental delivery of software to
customers. It is mainly designed to serve dynamic and small team sizes, who are usually …