International Journal of Production Economics

1991 - 2025

Continuation of Engineering Costs and Production Economics.

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Volume 107, issue 2, 2007

Foreword pp. 315-316

David Robb, Kai Reimers and Justin Tan

Firm-specific knowledge and technical efficiency of watch and clock manufacturing firms in China pp. 317-332

Zai Bin Wu, Godfrey Yeung, Vincent Mok and Zhaozhou Han

Sourcing in China: a typology pp. 333-349

Guido Nassimbeni and Marco Sartor

A new location-inventory policy with reverse logistics applied to B2C e-markets of China pp. 350-363

Ziping Wang, Dong-Qing Yao and Peiqing Huang

Culturalizing enterprise software for the Chinese context: An argument for accommodating guanxi-based business practices pp. 364-379

Robert P. Marble and Yiping Lu

The influence of centrifugal and centripetal forces on ERP project success in small and medium-sized enterprises in China and Taiwan pp. 380-396

Shih-Wen Chien, Changya Hu, Kai Reimers and Jeun-Sheng Lin

Single-station performance evaluation and improvement in semiconductor manufacturing: A graphical approach pp. 397-403

Na Li, Mike Tao Zhang, Shiming Deng, Zu-Hsu Lee, Lawrence Zhang and Li Zheng

Availability of k-out-of-N systems under block replacement sharing limited spares and repair capacity pp. 404-421

Karin S. de Smidt-Destombes, Matthieu C. van der Heijden and Aart van Harten

Optimal safety stocks and preventive maintenance periods in unreliable manufacturing systems pp. 422-434

A. Gharbi, J.-P. Kenne and M. Beit

Optimal production, maintenance and lockout/tagout control policies in manufacturing systems pp. 435-450

E. Charlot, J.P. Kenne and S. Nadeau

Capacity-driven vs. demand-driven material procurement systems pp. 451-466

E. Mohebbi, F. Choobineh and A. Pattanayak

Pricing and rebate policies for the newsvendor problem in the presence of a stochastic redemption rate pp. 467-482

F.J. Arcelus, Satyendra Kumar and G. Srinivasan

An optimal, potentially automatable ordering policy pp. 483-495

Roger D.H. Warburton

A note on the paper by M. A. Al-Fawzan and M. Haouari about a bi-objective problem for robust resource-constrained project scheduling pp. 496-501

Przemyslaw Kobylanski and Dorota Kuchta

Integration of supplier selection, procurement lot sizing and carrier selection under dynamic demand conditions pp. 502-510

Zhiying Liao and Jens Rittscher

The accuracy of a Modified Croston procedure pp. 511-517

J.E. Boylan and A.A. Syntetos

Cyclical schedules vs. dynamic sequencing: Replenishment dynamics and inventory efficiency pp. 518-527

Timothy S. Vaughan

Economic design of the VSSI control charts for correlated data pp. 528-539

Yan-Kwang Chen, Kun-Lin Hsieh and Cheng-Chang Chang

Worker assessment and the provision of developmental activities with advanced technology: An empirical study pp. 540-554

Nancy E. Waldeck

A mixed-integer linear programming model for bulk grain blending and shipping pp. 555-571

Bilge Bilgen and Irem Ozkarahan

Performance evaluation for the logistics system in case that capacity weight varies from arcs and types of commodity pp. 572-580

Yi-Kuei Lin

Volume 107, issue 1, 2007

The growth and capability development of electronics manufacturing service (EMS) companies pp. 1-19

Endong Zhai, Yongjiang Shi and Mike Gregory

A UNISON framework for analyzing alternative strategies of IC final testing for enhancing overall operational effectiveness pp. 20-30

Chen-Fu Chien, Hung-Ju Wang and Min Wang

Analysis of postponement strategy for perishable items by EOQ-based models pp. 31-38

Jian Li, T.C. Edwin Cheng and Shouyang Wang

Integration of speed economics into decision-making for manufacturing management pp. 39-55

Robert C. Leachman and Shengwei Ding

Model predictive control strategies for supply chain management in semiconductor manufacturing pp. 56-77

Wenlin Wang, Daniel E. Rivera and Karl G. Kempf

Production variability of production lines pp. 78-87

Xin-Feng He, Su Wu and Quan-Lin Li

Hybrid data mining approach for pattern extraction from wafer bin map to improve yield in semiconductor manufacturing pp. 88-103

Shao-Chung Hsu and Chen-Fu Chien

An evolutionary-simulation approach for the optimization of multi-constant work-in-process strategy--A case study pp. 104-114

Taho Yang, Hsin-Pin Fu and Kuang-Yi Yang

Scheduling of two-transtainer systems for loading outbound containers in port container terminals with simulated annealing algorithm pp. 115-124

Der-Horng Lee, Zhi Cao and Qiang Meng

The effects of learning and forgetting on the optimal production lot size for deteriorating items with time varying demand and deterioration rates pp. 125-138

Adel. A. Alamri and Zaid T. Balkhi

The effect of flexible lead times on a paper producer pp. 139-150

Kaj-Mikael Bjork and Christer Carlsson

Selection of optimum maintenance strategies based on a fuzzy analytic hierarchy process pp. 151-163

Ling Wang, Jian Chu and Jun Wu

Minimal budget for activities chain with chance constrained lead-time pp. 164-172

Zohar Laslo and Gregory Gurevich

Determination of the optimum target value for a production process with multiple products pp. 173-178

Min Koo Lee, Hyuck Moo Kwon, Sung Hoon Hong and Young Jin Kim

A DFX and concurrent engineering model for the establishment of a new department in a university pp. 179-189

Ching-Chow Yang, Shun-Hsing Chen and Jiun-Yan Shiau

Modeling just-in-time purchasing in the ready mixed concrete industry pp. 190-201

Wu Min and Low Sui Pheng

An alternative model for on-line quality monitoring for variables pp. 202-222

Linda Lee Ho, Pledson Guedes de Medeiros and Wagner Borges

Analyzing the benefits of lean manufacturing and value stream mapping via simulation: A process sector case study pp. 223-236

Fawaz A. Abdulmalek and Jayant Rajgopal

Adjusted action limits for Cpm based on departures from normality pp. 237-249

Bartholomew P.K. Leung and F. Spiring

Demand fluctuation and chaotic behaviour by interaction between customers and suppliers pp. 250-259

Y. Wu and D.Z. Zhang

The lack of maintenance and not maintenance which costs: A model to describe and quantify the impact of vibration-based maintenance on company's business pp. 260-273

Basim Al-Najjar

Verifying OCRA's economic sense: Response to Agrell and West (2001) pp. 274-278

Celik Parkan

An evaluation of the investment environment in international logistics zones: A Taiwanese manufacturer's perspective pp. 279-300

Chin-Shan Lu and Ching-Chiao Yang

Effect of inspection errors and preventive maintenance on a two-stage production inventory system pp. 301-313

M.A. Darwish and M. Ben-Daya

Volume 106, issue 2, 2007

Special issue on organizational structure, culture and operations management: An empirical missing link pp. 321-322

T.C. Edwin Cheng, Kee-hung Lai, Xenophon Koufteros and Chris McDermott

Organizational structures and the performance of supply chain management pp. 323-345

Soo Wook Kim

Organizational learning culture--the missing link between business process change and organizational performance pp. 346-367

Miha Skerlavaj, Mojca Indihar Stemberger, Rok Skrinjar and Vlado Dimovski

Organizational culture, critical success factors, and the reduction of hospital errors pp. 368-392

Gregory N. Stock, Kathleen L. McFadden and Charles R. Gowen

Implementing strategically aligned performance measurement in small firms pp. 393-408

Mel Hudson Smith and Dave Smith

Enterprise management: A new frontier for organisations pp. 409-430

Mario Binder and Ben Clegg

`Soft' supplier management related issues: An empirical investigation pp. 431-449

Yiannis E. Polychronakis and Aris A. Syntetos

The role of Guanxi in supply management practices pp. 450-467

Peter K.C. Lee and Paul K. Humphreys

An empirical assessment of a nomological network of organizational design constructs: From culture to structure to pull production to performance pp. 468-492

Xenophon A. Koufteros, Abraham Y. Nahm, T.C. Edwin Cheng and Kee-hung Lai

An integrated production-inventory model with imperfect production processes and Weibull distribution deterioration under inflation pp. 493-505

Sh-Tyan Lo, Hui-Ming Wee and Wen-Chang Huang

A Bayesian approach based on multiple samples for measuring process performance with incapability index pp. 506-512

Gu-Hong Lin

Optimal project selection with random fuzzy parameters pp. 513-522

Xiaoxia Huang

Effective control policies for stochastic inventory systems with a minimum order quantity and linear costs pp. 523-531

Bin Zhou, Yao Zhao and Michael N. Katehakis

Risk hedging through forward supply contract and equity ownership in a spin-off decision pp. 532-543

Naoya Takezawa, Jay Rajasekera and Kut C. So

An economic order quantity model with defective items and shortages pp. 544-549

Abdullah Eroglu and Gultekin Ozdemir

A survey and optimization-based evaluation of development strategies for the air cargo industry pp. 550-562

Yu-Hern Chang, Chung-Hsing Yeh and Shih-Yi Wang

Improving the performance of the ATC dispatch rule by using workload data to determine the lookahead parameter value pp. 563-573

Jorge M.S. Valente

Multiobjective single machine scheduling with nontraditional requirements pp. 574-584

Uday Haral, Rew-Win Chen, William Ferrell and Mary Beth Kurz

Supplier evaluation and management system for strategic sourcing based on a new multicriteria sorting procedure pp. 585-606

Ceyhun Araz and Irem Ozkarahan

A review of multi-factor capacity expansion models for manufacturing plants: Searching for a holistic decision aid pp. 607-621

Nirupam Julka, Tim Baines, Benny Tjahjono, Peter Lendermann and Val Vitanov

Volume 106, issue 1, 2007

Contextualisation of supply chain networks pp. 1-1

C.S. Lalwani, K.S. Pawar and J. Shah

Supply chain modularisation: Cases from the French automobile industry pp. 2-11

Desmond Doran, Alex Hill, Ki-Soon Hwang and Gregoire Jacob

Assessing the impact of ICT on UK general haulage companies pp. 12-27

Ian Davies, Robert Mason and Chandra Lalwani

Lead time minimization of a multi-product, single-processor system: A comparison of cyclic policies pp. 28-40

Narasimha Kamath B and Subir Bhattacharya

New product development in the pharmaceutical and telecommunication industries: A comparative study pp. 41-60

Abhishek Gupta, Kulwant S. Pawar and Palie Smart

Simulation modelling of reverse logistics networks pp. 61-69

S. Kara, F. Rugrungruang and H. Kaebernick

Lean thinking in the UK red meat industry: A systems and contingency approach pp. 70-81

David Simons and David Taylor

Developing a methodology to analyse despatch bay performance pp. 82-91

Andrew Potter and Chandra Lalwani

An optimization-based decision support system for strategic planning in a process industry: The case of a pharmaceutical company in India pp. 92-103

Goutam Dutta, Robert Fourer, Akhilesh Majumdar and Debabrata Dutta

The retailer multi-item inventory problem with demand cannibalization and substitution pp. 104-114

Janat Shah and Balram Avittathur

An effective lateral transshipment policy to improve service level in the supply chain pp. 115-126

Young Hae Lee, Jung Woo Jung and Young Sang Jeon

The optimal retailer's ordering policies for deteriorating items with limited storage capacity under trade credit financing pp. 127-145

Kun-Jen Chung and Tien-Shou Huang

Pre-season stocking and pricing decisions for fashion retailers with multiple information updating pp. 146-170

Tsan-Ming Choi

Effect of information update frequency on the stability of production-inventory control systems pp. 171-190

Jayendran Venkateswaran and Young-Jun Son

The design of multiple production lines under deadline constraint pp. 191-203

Chun-Hsiung Lan

Using vector autoregressive residuals to monitor multivariate processes in the presence of serial correlation pp. 204-216

Xia Pan and Jeffrey Jarrett

A study on the cost of operational complexity in customer-supplier systems pp. 217-229

Y. Wu, G. Frizelle and J. Efstathiou

The impact of specific supplier development efforts on buyer competitive advantage: an empirical model pp. 230-247

Wenli Li, Paul K. Humphreys, Andy C.L. Yeung and T.C. Edwin Cheng

An integrated production-inventory model with imperfect production processes and Weibull distribution deterioration under inflation pp. 248-260

Sh-Tyan Lo, Hui-Ming Wee and Wen-Chang Huang

Heuristics for the early/tardy scheduling problem with release dates pp. 261-274

Jorge M.S. Valente and Rui A.F.S. Alves

The cost minimization and manpower deployment to SPC in a multistage manufacturing system pp. 275-287

Zhang Wu, M. Shamsuzzaman and Qinan Wang

A holistic framework for short-term supply chain management integrating production and corporate financial planning pp. 288-306

Gonzalo Guillen, Mariana Badell and Luis Puigjaner

Coordination on stocking and progressive pricing policies for a supply chain pp. 307-319

Chang Hwan Lee