Objective: Today, manufacturing companies must pay attention to environmental and social issues throughout the supply chain in order to survive. Many efforts have been made to examine the sustainable supply chain, but the agility of sustainable supply chain has been only observed in very few studies. Therefore, the aim of this study is to present an agility model of sustainable supply chain in ...

One poorly investigated issue in organizational agility is the question how organizations change their speed while adopting and exploiting new IT capability. In this paper we outline a theory of software development agility that draws upon a model of IT innovations by Swanson and on March’s learning theory and in particular on his concepts of exploration and exploitation. We explore how both ex...

Changeability has become a buzzword for operations management, especially in German literature. Therefore, we analyze the concept in comparison with existing concepts for variability, such as flexibility and agility. Agility is an enterprise-wide concept incorporating product design as well as manufacturing systems design and aiming at lean and often dislocated manufacturing processes. Flexibil...

Next generation process planning systems should be capable of dealing with industrial demands of versatility, flexibility, and agility for product manufacturing. Development of process planning system is heavily dependent on feature recognition, but presently there is no satisfactory feature recognition system relying on a single method. In this paper, we describe a hybrid feature recognition m...

Process support for the development and maintenance of e-projects in organizations is increasingly important because systems evolve and become entwined with other systems. The focus of this paper is on support that enables constant updating of requirements after an initial set of requirements has been produced. An approach termed Up-front Requirements Modeling for E-projects (URME) aims to prov...

abstract. the purpose of the present article is to determine the effect of knowledge management on organizational agility through the use of structural equations modeling in auto-parts manufacturing companies. for this purpose, along with the review of concepts such as organizational agility and knowledge management, the dimensions and capabilities of knowledge management and organizational agi...

In the situation of shortened product life cycles, modular product design enables organizations to adapt to unanticipated changes in their environments. This study extends modular systems theory to manufacturing process design and posits that: (i) firms can design their manufacturing processes for the same product into either an integrated or modularized structure, thereby being agile in dynami...