production and operations management
yousef shamsi; houshang ta; soleiman Iranzadeh
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The purpose of this article is to develop a model of manufacturing flexibility in the food industry. The present research is a mixed qualitative and quantitative research method. In qualitative research, the Grounded theory method is a tool for building a conceptual model of manufacturing flexibility. ...
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The purpose of this article is to develop a model of manufacturing flexibility in the food industry. The present research is a mixed qualitative and quantitative research method. In qualitative research, the Grounded theory method is a tool for building a conceptual model of manufacturing flexibility. The statistical sample of this section includes 20 experts familiar with the subject of manufacturing flexibility. The sampling method in the qualitative section is the Snowball Sampling method. The method of data collection in this part of the interview is semi-structured. The method of data analysis in the qualitative part is a three-step process of open, axial and selective coding. The results of this section show the model of manufacturing flexibility paradigm. The data collection tool in the quantitative part is a researcher-made questionnaire based on sub-categories and concepts obtained from the qualitative stage. The method of data analysis in this section is confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling. The statistical sample in this section is 201 managers of food industry companies in East Azerbaijan province. The results show that environmental dynamics, increasing competitiveness and access to new markets are among the reasons for the need for manufacturing flexibility, in which automation and timely production are considered as industry strategies to achieve manufacturing flexibility; These factors have a direct effect on increasing organizational performance and customer satisfaction as a consequence of flexibility. The results also show that intervenors such as managerial factors, financial capability, etc. can influence strategies.
Ali Mohamadi; Payam Shojaei; Hamid Reza Yazdani; Mohammad Reza Sadeghi Moghaddam
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Regarding to the increasing importance of supply chain risk in the lastdecade in general and projects especially, in this research the dimensions andelements of supply chain risk of projects have been determined. Therefore,Fars Gas Transfer Pipeline projects were considered to discover codes andthemes ...
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Regarding to the increasing importance of supply chain risk in the lastdecade in general and projects especially, in this research the dimensions andelements of supply chain risk of projects have been determined. Therefore,Fars Gas Transfer Pipeline projects were considered to discover codes andthemes according to the phenomena by using Grounded Theory (Corbin andStrauss method). Based on final paradigm model, project supply chain riskmanagement issue was categorized in 6 main dimensions, 19 sub-dimensionsand 57 codes. The results show that supply chain risks as a core phenomenon,consists of environmental risks, organizational risks and network risks. Todo this, we use theoretical sampling and interview with 10 experts from Gasstate company and some suppliers. These interview was deep one becausewe employed open questionnaire. Then by using open encoding, axialencoding and selective encoding, paradigm model was extracted. The mainphenomenon placed the center of model and other themes joined to that
masuod simkhah; kamran Feizi
Volume 12, Issue 33 , July 2015, , Pages 1-25
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This paper provides a process model for supply risk management in the automotive supply chain. Process model describes why the automobile manufacturer's entry into the supply risk management process and how automobile manufacturer manages supply risk. Rely on grounded theory and based on 13 qualitative ...
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This paper provides a process model for supply risk management in the automotive supply chain. Process model describes why the automobile manufacturer's entry into the supply risk management process and how automobile manufacturer manages supply risk. Rely on grounded theory and based on 13 qualitative in-depth interviews with 10 managers and experts in Iran's automotive industry supply chain, a theoretical framework for this issue is developed. Based on this framework, the category of perceptional process explains why the automobile manufacturer's entry into the supply risk management process and four categories of bedder factors, contingency factors, goals and process of facing to the supply risk explains how automobile manufacturer manages supply risk.
