Manufacturing organisations have been witnessing a transition from mass manufacturing to
lean manufacturing. Lean manufacturing is focused on the elimination of obvious wastes …

Designing organisational strategies in various businesses is a commonly employed
practice; nevertheless, nowadays the strategy portfolio optimisation is one of the major …

This paper traces the origin and development of agile manufacturing. The industrial sectors
which have embraced agility are today's winners in the competitive markets. This situation …

Collaborative innovation and product development projects can be regarded as an
emerging challenge in innovation management, being partly reflected by the currently …

This paper presents an empirical study to examine the relationship between IS flexibility,
organizational flexibility, and competitive advantage. The study presumes IS usage and …

Purpose–To select the best strategies in the presence of both deterministic and non‐
deterministic data in uncertain environments, without relying on weight assignment by …

This chapter presents a research on deception and its detection with research on
collaboration. It explains the mechanisms of deception and its detection. The chapter …

The complex biological relationships underlying malaria transmission make it difficult to
predict the impact of interventions. Mathematical models simplify these relationships and …

The evaluation of strategic alternatives is particularly a difficult task. This difficulty is due to
the complexities inherent in the evaluation process and the lack of structured information …

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