International Journal of Operations & Production Management: Volume 44 Issue 8

Guest editorial: The 6th world conference on production and operations management

Alejandro Bello Pintado, Pamela Danese, Gerald Reiner

Big textual data research for operations management: topic modelling with grounded theory

Eyyub Can Odacioglu, Lihong Zhang, Richard Allmendinger, Azar Shahgholian

There is a growing need for methodological plurality in advancing operations management (OM), especially with the emergence of machine learning (ML) techniques for analysing…

Leveraging organizational knowledge to develop agility and improve performance: the role of ambidexterity

Gerald Stei, Alexander Rossmann, Levente Szász

As a response to the increased frequency of disruptive events and intense competition, organizational agility has become a key concept in organizational research. Fostering…

Cooperative management of an initial training program: case study of a Czech production site of a Japanese globalized manufacturing firm

Nobuko Nishiwaki, Akitsu Oe

This study examines the case of an initial training, called “Dojo”, invented and implemented at a production site in the Czech Republic. It clarifies the initial training program…

Panarchy theory: myth or reality? Empirical evidence of the socio-ecological nature of supply chains

Alice Madonna, Albachiara Boffelli, Matteo Kalchschmidt

This study builds on the panarchy theory by viewing the supply chain as a socio-ecological system and further expands it by considering the within-level linkages internal to the…