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HIGH PERFORMANCE OPERATIONS & LEAN MANAGEMENT ABSTRACTS"Lean Production in the Construction Supply Chain"
JOSEP CAPÓ-VICEDO, Department of Business Management, Polytechnic University of Valencia The construction sector is undergoing important, technological, and organizational changes, and the construction companies have to adapt to these changes in order to survive. For this to happen, they need to incorporate and apply production and organizational techniques from other more advanced sectors. In this context, the application of lean production principles to the construction industry - known as lean construction - assumes special importance. This paper analyzes the applicability of lean production to the construction sector and, in particular, to the supply chain set up for each individual construction project. Its main characteristics are studied along with the conditions that must exist in participating companies for lean production to be feasible and to achieve higher levels of quality, reduction in costs and completion times, and the end customer's satisfaction. "The Cross-Functional Coordination between
Operations, Marketing, Purchasing and Engineering
and the Impact on Performance"
AMELIA CARR, Bowling Green State University This paper is a study of the coordination capability between operations and other functional areas within the firm. The paper examines a number of relationships with respect to cross-functional coordination and performance. Using a random sample of 231 firms, five hypotheses are tested. Structural equation modelling is used to test the relationships depicted in the research model. The results indicate that firms can benefit from the cross-functional coordination between operations, marketing, engineering and purchasing. "Culture and Performance in an Organization"
SATYAM SHIVAM SUNDARAM, IIM Ahmedabad
Culture as a metaphor for sense making is only assessed. Culture as a variable is measured either in terms of language, artifacts and symbols, pattern of behavior, espoused values, and beliefs and assumptions or in terms of individualism, power distance index, masculinity, uncertainty avoidance and long term orientation when defined as an internal or an external variable respectively.
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Solicitation of Abstracts
This abstracting journal distributes working and accepted papers related to high performance operations & lean management. The topics explain how and what kinds of manufacturing operations and managements can lead to dramatic improvements in cost, quality, and time. The journal welcomes research with a focus on process performance and lean management used to remove waste and unnecessary steps to improve manufacturing operations. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, just-in-time, six-sigma, lean design, and design re-use.
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