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Colonial subjects: race and gender in French West Africa
Authors: Griffiths Claire H. 
Published: January 2007

PurposeThe purpose of this monograph is to present the first English translation of a unique French colonial report on women living under colonial rule in West Africa.Design/methodology/approachThe issue begins with a discussion of the contribution this report makes to the history of social development policy in Africa, and how it serves the on‐going critique of colonisation. This is followed by the English translation of the original report held in the National Archives of Senegal. The translation is accompanied by explanatory notes, translator’s comments, a glossary of African and technical terms, and a bibliography.FindingsThe discussion highlights contemporary social development policies and practices which featured in identical or similar forms in French colonial social policy.Practical implicationsAs the report demonstrates, access to basic education and improving maternal/infant health care have dominated the social development agenda for women in sub‐Saharan Africa for over a century, and will continue to do so in the foreseeable future in the Millennium Development Goals which define the international community’s agenda for social development to 2015. The parallels between colonial and post‐colonial social policies in Africa raise questions about the philosophical and cultural foundations of contemporary social development policy in Africa and the direction policy is following in the 21st century.Originality/valueThough the discussion adopts a consciously postcolonial perspective, the report that follows presents a consciously colonial view of the “Other”. Given the parallels identified here between contemporary and colonial policy‐making, this can only add to the value of the document in exploring the values that underpin contemporary social development practice.
The effects of quality management – a survey of Swedish quality professionals
Authors: Lagrosen Yvonne , Lagrosen Stefan 
Published: January 2007

PurposeIn this study, the effects of the different models and tools of quality management are examined. The purpose is to identify differences in the effects generated by different quality management models and tools.Design/methodology/approachA questionnaire was mailed to 500 Swedish quality professionals. The questions concerned their companies' adoption of the values of TQM, the use of the models and tools of TQM and the effects they notice. Correlation analysis and multiple regression analysis were carried out.FindingsThe findings show that there is statistical correlation between the adoption of the values of TQM and successful quality management. The usefulness of the Swedish Quality Award, the European Quality Award and ISO 9000 as well as several of the quality management tools is also indicated. Regarding ISO 9000 specific effects have been found.Research limitations/implicationsA limitation of the study is that the financial outcomes of the quality management practices are not measured but only the managers' perceptions of effects produced. The implication for further research is an increased knowledge of the different effects of the quality management practices and the significance of the values, particularly three values that were included in the multiple regression models.Practical implicationsThe specific findings on the effects of ISO 9000 are useful for managers when implementing the standard. The results of the study also indicate the importance of emphasising the values for successful quality management.Originality/valueThis study has provided more detailed knowledge of the effects of the different quality management practices, particularly of ISO 9000.
Editorial by Keith Howard
Authors: Howard Keith 
Published: January 2007

PurposeTo provide an outline of an editor's experiences in the early years of publishing IJOPM.Design/methodology/approachProvides a brief summary of the author's experiences.FindingsBeing a new journal, it was found that there was insufficient copy, and this was not helped by the limited number of potential authors. However, the objective of increasing the number of issues in a volume was achieved by the publication of an extra issue each year from 1985 to 1993, with papers of quality. Editorship of a journal subject to the scrutiny of academics is a challenging task.Originality/valueProvides an introduction to the special issue.
Editorial by Bob Hollier
Authors: Hollier Bob 
Published: January 2007

PurposeTo provide an outline of the experiences of an editor of IJOPM.Design/methodology/approachProvides a brief summary of the author's experiences.FindingsNotes that it was interesting to observe the way in which topics waxed and waned. A crucial test for any academic journal is whether it is regarded highly by those working in the field – there is evidence that this journal has established a strong International reputation in its subject area.Originality/valueProvides an introduction to the special issue.
Paradigms of manufacturing strategy re‐visited
Authors: Voss C.A. 
Published: January 2007

PurposeSeeks to provide observations on a paper published in 1995.Design/methodology/approachThe approach is a review and observations about the 1987 work.FindingsIn the 1995 paper, “Alternative paradigms for manufacturing strategy”, the history of the development of manufacturing strategy was reviewed and it was concluded that three paradigms had emerged: competing through manufacturing; strategic choices in manufacturing, and best practice. Looking back on this work these three paradigms are remarkably robust. However, there has been considerable development in the intervening years both intellectually and in practice that needs to be considered when reviewing this paper.Originality/valueShows that the three paradigms have remained robust, but there has been considerable development in practice and theory that both broadens the content and informs the nature of each paradigm.
The evolution of performance measurement research
Authors: Neely Andy 
Published: January 2007

PurposeThis paper provides an update of Neely et al.'s (1995) literature review “Performance measurement system design”. It was commissioned to appear in a special issue of the International Journal of Operations & Production Management to celebrate the journal's 25th anniversary.Design/methodology/approachThe paper employs a citation/co‐citation analysis of work in the field of performance measurement to explore developments in the field globally.FindingsThe paper argues that scholars working in the field of performance measurement agree about the key research questions despite the fact that they come from different disciplinary backgrounds. The paper identifies the key contributors to the field based on a citation/co‐citation analysis and argues that the field is now entering a phase of empirical investigation and theoretical verification of some core concepts.Research limitations/implicationsThe research reported in the paper is limited to work that deals directly with performance measurement. It excludes related research – such as literature on management control and performance management – and clearly could be extended to include these literatures.Originality/valueThe paper will be valuable to scholars working in the field of performance measurement who wish to understand how the field has developed and evolved and/or those who are interested in avenues for future research.
Service operations management: from the roots up
Authors: Johnston Robert 
Published: January 2007

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to assess developments in the service literature over the last six years and to lay out some challenges and opportunities for the operations management academic community.Design/methodology/approachThe paper is based on issues raised in a previous paper and contains the results of a literature review and a content analysis of around 250 papers from three journals.FindingsThe paper suggests that there is a window of opportunity for operations academics to engage in the service arena and apply their knowledge and skills to answer fundamental questions in the areas of quality, productivity and efficiency, and to apply their expertise in business services and the not‐for‐profit and voluntary sectors.Research limitations/implicationsThis polemic reflects the biased opinions of the author.Originality/valueAssesses developments in the service literature.
The pervasive human resource picture in interdependent supply relationships
Authors: Koulikoff‐Souviron Marie , Harrison Alan 
Published: January 2007

PurposeThis paper aims to explore the influence of human resource (HR) practices in shaping inter‐organisational supply relationships, and to describe the extent to which supply partners seek to adapt their internal HR practices to the external relationship.Design/methodology/approachInter‐organisational relationships are known to be multi‐dimensional in nature. Using seven dimensions to collect empirical evidence, the focus was on a dyadic supply relationship as the unit of analysis. A total of 48 interviews was undertaken from informants in both organisations.FindingsIt is shown that the supply relationship tends to be taken for granted at operational levels, and not subject to the relatively high levels of strategic alignment to be found at senior levels in both organizations. Operational aspects of the relationship are tested primarily in failure mode when poorly prepared to respond, for example, as a result of facility breakdowns and quality problems. Inter‐organisational HR practices were relatively weakly prioritised and – despite their acknowledged importance at operator level – were not clearly identified and supported in the way that intra‐organisational practices were.Originality/valueAn in‐depth, operations‐based study of HR practices has been undertaken in a reciprocally interdependent supply relationship from the perspectives of both partners.
Greening the automotive supply chain: a relationship perspective
Authors: Simpson Dayna , Power Damien , Samson Daniel 
Published: January 2007

PurposeThis study seeks to explore the moderating impact of relationship conditions existing between a customer and its suppliers on the uptake and effectiveness of the customer's environmental performance requirements (otherwise known as “green‐supply”).Design/methodology/approachThe study assesses the extent to which a supplier's environmental performance is influenced by its customer's environmental performance requirements when specific relationship conditions (investment, contracting and monitoring routines) are taken into account. Data were collected through a survey of first and second tier component manufacturers in the Australian automotive industry and analysed using linear regression and MMR.FindingsSuppliers were found to be more responsive to their customers' environmental performance requirements where increasing levels of relationship‐specific investment occurred. As the level of investment in the customer‐supplier relationship increased, suppliers become less likely to believe that they would be penalized for non‐compliance with the customer's environmental performance requirements.Research limitations/implicationsSurvey data were collected in 2004 and are limited to the Australian automotive industry. The sample size available for the regression analysis also precluded the use of more comprehensive analytic techniques.Practical implicationsThe research offers new insight into the issue of how firms might improve the environmental performance of suppliers and the sustainability of their supply chain.Originality/valueVirtually no research exists on the actual effectiveness of green supply requirements when placed in context with the realities of inter‐organizational dynamics. The findings suggest that traditional operations theory on inter‐organizational performance improvement is just as relevant to the use of environmental performance requirements.
Managers' perceptions of learning in new product development
Authors: Koners Ursula , Goffin Keith 
Published: January 2007

PurposePost‐project reviews (PPRs) are widely recommended as an appropriate mechanism to stimulate project‐to‐project learning in new product development (NPD) teams. However, empirical research on their potential is limited and so this study aims to answer two questions: how do NPD professionals perceive PPRs? and is tacit knowledge created during PPRs?Design/methodology/approachFive in‐depth case studies were conducted in German companies. The main sources of data were: company documentation; in‐depth interviews with managers; and observation of PPRs. The different data sources enabled extensive data triangulation and a high degree of reliability and validity to be achieved.FindingsThe results indicate that NPD personnel perceive PPRs to be a very useful mechanism. They also show that social interactions and tacit knowledge play key roles in NPD learning.Research limitations/implicationsTacit knowledge was investigated using a proxy measure – the usage of metaphors and stories in NPD discussions and documents. More robust ways of studying the generation and transfer of tacit knowledge are needed. The whole area of knowledge and learning in NPD requires significant further study.Practical implicationsManagement needs to drive the dissemination of the results of PPRs more effectively, in order to make more use of the tacit knowledge generated.Originality/valueThe main contributions of this study are the insights it provides on how PPRs are perceived and the exploratory investigation it makes of tacit knowledge – a complex topic that has previously only been discussed at a theoretical level.
The impact of forecast information quality on supply chain performance
Authors: Forslund Helena , Jonsson Patrik 
Published: January 2007

PurposeThis paper aims to describe the extent of supplier access to customer forecast information and the perceived quality of such information and also to explain the impact of forecast information access and forecast information quality (FIQ) on supply chain performance.Design/methodology/approachFIQ is defined, and a measurement instrument is developed from theory. The analysis is based on a survey of the most important suppliers of 136 Swedish companies.FindingsFindings show that a large proportion of the suppliers receive customer forecasts, but that the FIQ is lower further upstream in the supply chain and, in some variables, lower for make‐to‐order suppliers. The greatest information quality deficiency of the forecast was that it was considered unreliable. The only significant difference in supply chain performance found between make‐to‐stock suppliers with and without access to forecast was related to the use of safety stock in finished goods inventory.Research limitations/implicationsThe study contains two types of conclusions: those developed from the conceptual discussion in the theoretical framework and those of the empirical study. In the theoretical framework, measurement instruments for FIQ and supply chain performance (corrective actions, preventive actions and customer service performance) were developed. The study identified several empirical relationships, but it was conducted on a sample with a lot of variation.Practical implicationsThe understanding of the performance impact of FIQ. FIQ shows quality deficiencies on all variables, which indicates room for improvement.Originality/valueResearch on supply chain information quality as well as dyadic research approaches are rare.
Structuring front office and back office work in service delivery systems
Authors: Zomerdijk Leonieke G. , de Vries Jan 
Published: January 2007

PurposeThe aim of this paper is to investigate how the distinction between contact and non‐contact activities influences the design of service delivery systems and to identify key design decisions for structuring front office and back office work.Design/methodology/approachBuilding on current literature, the paper identifies three design decisions and associated performance trade‐offs. The design decisions regard the degree of customer contact in the process, the decoupling of activities and the grouping of employees. The design decisions and the trade‐offs are empirically validated in five case studies of 15 service delivery systems in the financial services sector.FindingsDistinguishing between the three design decisions is more suitable for describing today's practices than traditional front office – back office thinking. For each design decision a trade‐off was observed consisting of several design considerations. However, the trade‐offs do not involve the weighing of one set of performance objectives against another, as the design choices contribute to the same objectives, yet in different ways.Research limitations/implicationsThis study concentrated on a limited number of cases in the financial services sector. The contents of the trade‐offs should be tested on a larger scale and in different industries. In order to develop design guidelines, future research should also examine the impact of contingency factors, such as the service being delivered and strategic priorities.Originality/valueThe three design decisions and the trade‐offs improve understanding of the impact of customer contact on a service organisation and provide support for designing service delivery systems in practice.
Karl Knies, Austrians, and Max Weber: a Heidelberg connection?
Authors: Yagi Kiichiro 
Published: January 2007

PurposeTo establish the place of Karl Knies in the history of economics of the German‐speaking academics.Design/methodology/approachKnies's economics teaching is summarized on the basis of a student's notebook of the course on general economics in Heidelberg, 1886. Knies's relation with two Austrian visitors, Friedrich Wieser and Eugen Böhm‐Bawerk, is explored. Finally, Knies's influence on Max Weber and Weber's difference from Knies is discussed.FindingsThis paper provides the structure and the summary of Knies's lecture, illuminates his inability to grasp the significance of Austrian value theory, and shows the new position that Max Weber acquired by absorbing the Austrian theory into the framework of historicism.Research limitations/implicationsThe comparison of (possibly) remaining notes of Knies's lectures may reveal the development as well as the wide coverage of his teaching in Heidelberg. Knies's influence on Max Weber should be studied more in detail by an archival investigation of young Weber's unpublished writings.Originality/valueThe mild and synthetic feature of the real teaching of Knies, “the methodologist of the Historical School”, and the true distinction of the Austrian value theory from the “use value” theory of German economists are shown clearly. Thus, the relation between Historicists and Austrians is established from the viewpoint of the economic theory.
Alfred Marshall versus the historical school?
Authors: Hodgson Geoffrey M. 
Published: January 2007

PurposeThis paper aims to counter the view that Marshall was an opponent of the historical school. This false account has survived and prospered because it has fitted into more general conceptions of intellectual history, held by both orthodox and heterodox economists.Design/methodology/approachMarshall's affinity with the historical school is established by examining his writings and his relationship with historical school sympathisers in the UK.FindingsIt is established that Marshall regarded his work as building on historical school insights, and he repeatedly referred positively to the ideas of the German historical school. It is argued in this paper that Marshall's opposition to the historical school was confined to its anti‐theoretical wing, principally Cunningham. In other important respects Marshall's position was compatible with German and British historicism.Originality/valueIn preceding literature, Marshall's affinities with the historical school have been denied, unacknowledged, or unexplored.
Contribution, attribution and the assignment of intellectual property rights in economics
Authors: Mixon Franklin G. , Sawyer W. Charles 
Published: January 2007

PurposeWithin the area of economics, the value attached to highly‐ranked journal publications, such as the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy and Quarterly Journal of Economics, in tenure, promotion, and merit pay processes is often several times greater than that of second‐tier publications, such as Economic Inquiry and the Southern Economic Journal. As a result, one would expect that author(s) will put forth relatively more production “effort” in order to gain acceptance in a top‐tier journal. The additional production effort may come in the form of making the manuscript available to a larger number of outside readers, perhaps via seminars and conferences. This study aims to examine whether the economics research production process differs between top‐ and second‐tier journal outlets.Design/methodology/approachData are collected from feature articles published in two top‐tier and two second‐tier economics journals for the period 1995‐1999, inclusive. Means difference tests on various “production statistics” across journals are conducted/presented.FindingsTests presented in this study indicate that the fraction of the “scientific team” whose contributions are recognized in the acknowledgment footnote of research articles appearing in top‐tier economics journal outlets is, on average, greater than that of articles appearing in second‐tier economics journal outlets.Originality/valueBy examining within‐discipline aspects of intellectual property rights assignment in economics, our study extends the work of Laband (2002), which examined interdisciplinary differences (i.e. agricultural economics versus economics) in the assignment of intellectual property rights.
The endogeneity of optimum currency area criteria – lessons from history for European monetary union
Authors: Mann‐Quirici François 
Published: January 2007

PurposeAssesses whether the current pattern of relative wage rigidity and labour inertia in Europe is a problematic factor in the successful functioning of the European monetary union as viewed by many observers given the absence of interregional fiscal transfer payments.Design/methodology/approachUses econometric methods to test whether the onset of monetary integration in the US and the gold standard in selected countries has increased the pro‐cyclical behaviour of real wages.FindingsFinds suggestive empirical evidence that indeed a Lucas Critique argument applies such that credibly fixed exchange rate regimes might induce wages to carry the burden of macroeconomic adjustment in lieu of independent monetary policy and/or fiscal transfers.Originality/valueMakes a novel contribution to the literature by attempting to test for the existence of endogenous adjustment mechanisms based on historical monetary unions analogous to EMU.