International Journal of Production Economics

1991 - 2025

Continuation of Engineering Costs and Production Economics.

Current editor(s): Stefan Minner

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Volume 52, issue 3, 1997

Editorial pp. 255-255

A. Agnew and O. Jones

Automation and organizational performance: The case of electronics manufacturing firms in Singapore pp. 257-268

Poh Wong and Phyllisis M. Ngin

The impact of EDI on interorganizational integration pp. 269-281

Alexander Prosser and Alexander Nickl

Physical or virtual team collocation: Does it matter? pp. 283-290

Kulwant S. Pawar and Sudi Sharifi

Cellular Green-Teams in global network organisations pp. 291-303

D. T. Wright and N. D. Burns

Project management system design: A social and organisational analysis pp. 305-316

Beverly Metcalfe

Deskilling and reskilling within the labour process: The case of computer integrated manufacturing pp. 317-324

Andrew Agnew, Paul Forrester, John Hassard and Stephen Procter

Volume 52, issue 1-2, 1997

Foreword pp. 1-1

Robert W. Grubbstrom, Curt R. Nicolin and Clas Wahlbin

Opening address on the occasion of the Eighth World Productivity Congress, May 24, 1993 pp. 3-3

H. Xvi Carl

What we really need is TPQM! pp. 5-13

Ezey M. Dar-El

Management for clinicians or the case of bringing the mountain to Mohammed pp. 15-30

Creswell J. Eastman and Liz Fulop

Quality in new service development: Key concepts and a frame of reference pp. 31-46

Bo Edvardsson

A conceptual model for disruption causes: A personnel and organization perspective pp. 47-53

Johan Ericsson and Per Dahlen

The effect of a free market price mechanism on total factor productivity: The case of the agricultural crop industry in Greece pp. 55-71

Zoe Georganta

Productivity and flexibility: Fundamental relations between two major properties and performance measures of the production system pp. 73-82

Robert W. Grubbstrom and Jan Olhager

Simultaneous engineering -- correlates of success pp. 83-90

Warren C. Hauck, Anil Bansal P. E. and Allan J. Hauck

Automatic data capture and its impact on productivity pp. 91-103

Roger A. Lindau

Japanese management practices: Their implication on productivity, employment and income distribution pp. 105-115

Naomi Maruo

The role of governments in a market economy: Future strategies for the high-tech industry in America pp. 117-131

John E. Merchant

Sources of growth of output and convergence of productivity in major OECD countries pp. 133-146

M. Ishaq Nadiri and Ingmar Prucha

Strategic alliances, trick or treat? the case of Scania pp. 147-160

Carl-Henric Nilsson

A study of competitive strategy, organisational innovation and organisational performance among Australian manufacturing companies pp. 161-172

Shahid Yamin, Felix Mavondo, A Gunasekaran and James C. Sarros

Increasing productivity in technology management when developing and building complex systems in a global environment pp. 173-177

Karl-Hugo Andersson

Reengineering the new product introduction process pp. 179-183

George W. Arnold and Mark C. Floyd

Development of international competitiveness in industries and individual firms in developing countries: The case of the Chilean forest-based industry and the Chilean engineering firm Arze, Recine and Asociados pp. 185-202

Elias C. Arze and Borje W. Svensson

Effective measurement and successful elements of company productivity: The basis of competitiveness and world prosperity pp. 203-213

Imre Bernolak

Paradigm change in production management: New lead concepts towards higher competitiveness in technology based enterprises pp. 215-225

Hans-Jorg Bullinger

Breakthrough in software design productivity through the use of declarative programming pp. 227-231

Bjarne O. Dacker and Michael C. Williams

Productivity: A vibrant synergy for organic growth pp. 233-238

R. N. Sharma

Productivity in Japan's manufacturing industry pp. 239-246

Azusa Tomiura

Engineering education; the "P" word and continuous quality improvement pp. 247-251

Karen E. Torgersen and Paul E. Torgersen

Volume 51, issue 3, 1997

Manufacturing blocking discipline: A multi-criterion approach for buffer allocations pp. 155-163

A. A. Andijani and M. Anwarul

Scheduling families of jobs with setup times pp. 165-176

Mohammad Mehdi Liaee and Hamilton Emmons

A heuristic for solving mixed-model line balancing problems with stochastic task durations and parallel stations pp. 177-190

Patrick R. McMullen and Gregory V. Frazier

Delivery capability and firm performance in international operations pp. 191-204

Stanley E. Fawcett, Roger Calantone and Sheldon R. Smith

Simulation analysis of a pull-push system for an electronic assembly line pp. 205-214

Mehmet Savsar

An algorithm to determine the EOQ for deteriorating items with shortage and a linear trend in demand pp. 215-221

Kun-Jen Chung and Sui-Fu Tsai

Setting preventive maintenance schedules when data are sparse pp. 223-234

David F. Percy, Khairy A. H. Kobbacy and Bahir B. Fawzi

Schedule based production pp. 235-242

Chung-Hsing Yeh

Planning of fuel coal imports using a mixed integer programming method pp. 243-249

Li-Hsing Shih

Evolution of a decision support system for human resource planning in a petroleum company pp. 251-261

R. P. Mohanty and S. G. Deshmukh

"Stochastic properties of a production-inventory process with planned production using transform methodology" [Int. J. Production Economics 45 (1996) 407-419] pp. 263-263

Robert W. Grubbstrom

Volume 51, issue 1-2, 1997

Introduction pp. ix-x

E. M. Dar-El and A. Shtub

Innovation paths in product development: An empirical research pp. 1-17

Mario Calderini and Marco Cantamessa

Planning of multi-site production -- an object-oriented model pp. 19-35

H. -J. Bullinger, K. -P. Faehnrich and H. -P. Laubscher

Optimal flow control of flexible manufacturing systems: Setup localization by an iterative procedure pp. 37-46

Konstantin Kogan, Eugene Khmelnitsky, Avraham Shtub and Oded Maimon

Team-oriented assembly system design: A new approach pp. 47-57

Joseph Bukchin, Ezey Darel and Jacob Rubinovitz

Integrating corporate learning with project management pp. 59-67

Karen Ayas

The Metered Inventory Routing Problem, an integrative heuristic algorithm pp. 69-81

Yale T. Herer and Roberto Levy

Operations management of multiple machine automatic warehousing systems pp. 83-98

Moshe Eben-Chaime and Nava Pliskin

Design of a simulation library for CIM pp. 99-107

M. A. Pollatschek

Real-time operational control of an FMS with full routing flexibility pp. 109-113

M. D. Byrne and P. Chutima

A parallel genetic-neuro scheduler for job-shop scheduling problems pp. 115-122

H. C. Lee and Cihan H. Dagli

Analytical approach of determining job division in manual assembly systems pp. 123-134

Gert Zulch, Wolfgang J. Braun and Emmerich F. Schiller

Design and testing of piezoelectric actuator-controlled boring bar for active compensation of cutting force induced errors pp. 135-148

W. M. Chiu and K. W. Chan

Investigation of chip formation during milling pp. 149-153

Pavel Kovac and Leposava Sidjanin