9 articles in this issue
JOSCM Admin
Editorial Board, JOSCM v. 6, n. 1, 2013
Henrique Luiz Corrêa,Lucia Helena Xavier
There is growing social pressure for organizations to reduce their rates of consumption ofnonrenewable natural resources and in parallel, to also reduce the release of post-production and postconsumptionwaste to landfills, water bodies and air, thereby ca... see more
Ronald Tavares Pires da Silva,Cristiane Biazzin Villar,Janaína Siegler
This study explores possible new drivers that may be integrated into the decision-makingmodels for establishing the location of subsidiaries. More precisely, it seeks to answer the followingresearch question: "Does the degree of responsiveness in the supp... see more
Cristiane Salome Ribeiro Costa,Salomão Alencar de Farias,Renata Oliveira
The issue of sustainability has been gaining space and importance in studies, andrepresents an external variable that affects organizational activities and obliges companies to adjusttheir conservation actions. In the tourism sector, such adjustments have... see more
Dimária Silva e Meirelles,Claudia Fernanda Franceschi Klement
The goal of this article is to join the theoretical contributions of operations managementand economical theory for the analysis of services' strategic positioning. In the beginning it presents theexplanation about three services taxonomies with similar c... see more
Mario Sacomano Neto,Sílvio Roberto Ignácio Pires,Eliciane Maria da Silva
This article analyzed the main mechanisms in inter-firm governance present in a modularconsortium as well as in an automotive industry industrial condominium, operating in Brazil.. The datacollection was carried out through interviews (in loco) in both au... see more
Roberto Giro Moori,Adriano Pescarmona,Herbert Kimura
In this paper, we examine the relationship among lean manufacturing management,competitive skills, and business performance from the perspective of managers of companies doingbusiness in Brazil. We conduct a survey of 68 Brazilian companies that use lean ... see more
Vitor Fabian Brock,Iuri Gavronski
Recent literature has proposed that institutions play a pivotal role in corporate andbusiness strategies. We argue that this role holds for manufacturing strategy as well. Despite extensiveliterature regarding international operations management (OM), few... see more
Sean Goffnett,Richard Divine,Zachary Williams,Robert Cook
Attracting and retaining supply chain management (SCM) talent is a major concern inindustry. This exploratory study utilized survey research methods to obtain perceptions of intrinsicand extrinsic career choice factors and career satisfaction held by indi... see more