Showing papers in "Journal of Operations Management in 2009"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the impact of two cultural antecedents, market orientation and learning orientation, and three organizational practices, all aimed at augmenting the supply chain agility of a firm.

TL;DR: A model of supply chain complexity is put forth and empirically tests it using plant-level data from 209 plants across seven countries and shows that upstream complexity, internal manufacturing complexity, and downstream complexity all have a negative impact on manufacturing plant performance.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the role of transactional and relational mechanisms in hindering opportunism and improving relationship performance in an emerging economy, and found that transactional mechanisms are more effective in restraining opportunism while relational mechanisms were more powerful in improving the relationship performance.

TL;DR: In this article, the EFQM Excellence Model is used as an operational framework for total quality management (TQM) and the authors analyze the extent to which it captures the main assumptions involved in the TQM concept.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that neither transaction cost economics nor the resource-based view alone can fully explain the complexities of outsourcing and present a prescriptive framework for outsourcing evaluation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a process to proactively plan for catastrophic risk events through an integration of diverse research streams related to the management of risk, in particular, the proposed process builds upon an existing risk analysis framework by incorporating an innovative methodology used by the insurance industry to quantify the risk of multiple types of catastrophic events on key supply chain locations.

TL;DR: A framework of infrastructure based on the idea that continuous improvement can serve as a dynamic capability when it includes a comprehensive organizational context is presented, which adds to the conceptual understanding of continuous improvement.

TL;DR: In this article, a bibliometric citation/co-citation analysis to investigate the foundations of the discipline enables a robust, quantitative approach to uncovering the evolution of research in OM.

TL;DR: In this article, the importance of knowledge management processes to operational and overall organizational performance was examined empirically and it was found that a shared interpretation of knowledge among operational personnel mediates how knowledge is disseminated and used to design and implement a unified operational response to that knowledge.

TL;DR: This paper found that collaborative competence has a direct impact on project performance but its impact on market performance is indirect, mediated through project performance, and companies that fail to achieve desired project performance outcomes will also fail in achieving market performance goals.

TL;DR: This paper explores how novelty, complexity, instability, and buffering affect the relationship between lean implementation and production costs and develops a revised framework that reconceptualizes the effect of lean on production costs.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors empirically examined whether operational slack, business diversification, geographic diversification and vertical relatedness influence the stock market reaction to supply chain disruptions and found that firms with more slack in their supply chain experience less negative stock market reactions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify some important aspects of risk management in supply chains and summarizes the four articles that are in this special issue, and they hope that these articles would spur additional research on this important topic.

TL;DR: In this article, a value-focused process engineering methodology for process-based supply chain risk identification is proposed with the aim to increase value to supply chain members and supply chain as a whole.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compare the impact of ISO 9001/2000 and ISO 9000/1994 on the performance of 713 Spanish industrial companies using mean and covariance structural (MACS) analyses.

TL;DR: Using data from a nationwide survey of over 200 hospitals, structural equation modeling is used to provide empirical support for the effectiveness of a patient safety chain model and has major implications for enhancing operations in hospital settings.

TL;DR: In this article, a game-theoretic model is used to analyze lock-in behaviors in the context of a Danish business group, and the analysis provides a basis for the development of propositions which are examined employing a behavioral experiment.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors develop hypotheses linking two knowledge-driven supply chain phenomena (i.e., knowledge development capacity and intellectual capital), innovation-cost strategy, and action to firm-level performance.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a model and a series of hypotheses that specify how various product and market characteristics may influence the nature of the expected positive relationship between e-collaboration and performance.

TL;DR: In this article, a model that evaluates psychological contract violations between a buyer and a supplier as a mediating variable of the effect of unethical activities on trust within a partnership was proposed and tested.

TL;DR: In this paper, a combination of quantitative techniques were applied to determine the reasons why workers leave China's export factories, trying to identify the root causes of job dissatisfaction leading to turnover and providing managerial implications that may assist managers in dealing with labor-related supply chain risks.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the influence of strategic evaluation, contractual completeness, and relationship management practices on outsourcing performance and find that outsourcing performance is significantly influenced by extensive strategic evaluation and proactive relationship management.

TL;DR: In this article, the impacts of antecedent factors (price pressure, production complexity, and contract duration) and buyer's governance mechanisms (peer-to-peer and buyer-tosupplier) on the likelihood of a supplier's compliance with Supplier Codes of Conduct (SCC) were investigated.

TL;DR: A key finding of this study is that individuals who take an abstract problem solving approach are able to perform better thanindividuals who take a concrete problem solve approach in the context of limited information availability, but in thecontext of complete information availability the impact of both types of problem solving approaches on performance becomes negligible.

TL;DR: The use of theory in operations management has been discussed in this article, where the authors argue that the discipline had fallen into some bad habits and appeal for more attention to what theory can mean for our understanding of operations management.

TL;DR: This investigation of a specific FHU suggests, conceptually as well as quantitatively, that focus can be an attractive element in health care system design.

TL;DR: Ferris et al. as mentioned in this paper found that effective political skill enabled managers to influence subordinates in ways that contributed positively to organizational outcomes, and proposed a theory of plant manager effectiveness as a combination of political skill and the use of unobtrusive and systemic power to achieve both affective and substantive outcomes.

TL;DR: Efficient manufacturers were more likely to exhibit a better match between the most emphasized type of information and the corresponding dimension of strategic performance, suggesting that the most efficient users of information tend to emphasize information related to operational excellence.

TL;DR: In this paper, the moderating effects of relational stress on the ability of buyer-initiated cooperative actions to influence a supplier's willingness to invest in technology that will be of benefit to the buyer was investigated.

TL;DR: In this paper, monetary quantification of points of difference among the sourcing alternatives being considered, especially for cost analysts, has been shown to lead to Uncertainty Reduction, which is the primary antecedent of applying analysis of cost and performance.