Harm-Jan Steenhuis

• PhD Industrial Engineering and Management - International Technology Transfer
• Head of Business Division and Professor of Management at Texas A&M University – Texarkana

One of the areas with a lot of activity in terms of mergers and acquisitions in additive manufacturing, which is also known as 3D printing. This industry has a very strong emphasis on technology. The purpose of this study is to investigate the merger and acquisition activities in additive manufacturing. It explores the role of acquiring new technol...

Additive manufacturing embarked in the 1980s and had limited applications over a long period of time. Gradually additive manufacturing has found increasing uses in a variety of industries such as the medical services and the construction industry. One industry that has received increasing attention is its applications in the food sector, such as pa...

Additive manufacturing technologies have a history that goes back to the early 1980s. Over the last roughly 40 years, additive manufacturing has developed into different types of approaches and has been applied in many different industries. The purpose of this paper is to explore how additive manufacturing has been used in the competitive landscape...

While many nations agreed that the world needs to do something about climate change and for instance signed the Paris agreement in 2015. by now it is clear that many nations are failing to make significant environmental progress. One of the drivers of the fourth industrial revolution is additive manufacturing which has the potential to aid environm...

This study is about high technology. In high technology situations there are three sets of variables: the technology system characteristics, the technology performance and what a customer is looking for. The latter isn't necessarily the same as the technology performance and there is uncertainty for manufacturers how the technology system character...

The chapter describes archetypes of literature reviews and quality criteria

Additive manufacturing can be considered an innovative and high-technology and one of its characteristics is that it has limited dependency on the location. The purpose of this study is to examine this aspect by investigation how additive manufacturing is spreading globally. The focus is on established manufacturers of industrial additive manufactu...

Purpose - The purpose of this study is to explore the impact of articles that are published in JMTM by looking at download patterns. Design/methodology/approach – Four issues of JMTM were selected for the analysis. These covered a total of 29 articles. The monthly downloads for these articles were analyzed. Findings – Five impact categories were de...

Project-based learning is different from traditional lectures and requires students to behave different from the traditional classroom. This book provides students guidance on how to deal with the project-based instruction form. Different types of projects such as projects that contribute to theory and projects that contribute to practice are cover...

Additive manufacturing was developed in the 1980s and for a long time, it had limited applications. In recent years additive manufacturing has found increasing uses in a variety of industries such as the medical field and the construction industry. One industry in particular that has received increasing attention is that of 3D printing food. One of...

Additive manufacturing, also known as 3D printing, has existed since the 1980s. Since then, the innovation has spread and many companies are working on new applications or new 3D printing machines. In some ways, 3D printing is flexible because the machines can produce items in almost any location, this has been considered an advantage that can redu...

The 3D printing technology originated in the early 1980s and work on early consumer-level printers started in 2004. By 2018, although hundreds of companies worldwide are active in this industry, the overall level of worldwide adoption of the technology is limited. The one millionth consumer-level 3D printer was only recently sold. Whether a new ide...

The aerospace industry is one of the most politicized high technology markets, as well as one of the most globalized and global industries in the world. Demand for aircraft in emerging markets and countries, such as China, India or Russia, is surging and is connected with the offshoring plans of original equipment manufacturers. One of the main rea...

Despite the often stated move from manufacturing to a service orientation, manufacturing is still an important part of the economy for many countries often accounting for 30% or more of the total economy. However, manufacturing in countries such as the U.S. has been faced with challenges. Upgrading manufacturing has been demonstrated as being a bet...

Purpose – The purpose of this exploratory study is to gain insight into whether additive manufacturing represents incremental, radical, disruptive innovation or an industrial revolution and its implications. Design/methodology/approach – This study applies a desk research strategy. Data was collected through a variety of industry sources as well as...

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to explore what underlies the development of the consumer 3D printing industry and gain insight into future developments and its potentially disruptive impact on the existing manufacturing industry. Design/methodology/approach – A combination of approaches was followed. Initially a consumer 3D printer was purc...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore what underlies the development of the consumer 3D printing industry and gain insight into future developments and its potentially disruptive impact on the existing manufacturing industry. Design/methodology/approach A combination of approaches was followed. Initially a consumer 3D printer was purch...

Natural disasters cause significant disruption to the lives of those affected by them. One of the major effects of natural disasters is the loss of housing. Additive manufacturing is a relatively new manufacturing technology that has advantages over traditional manufacturing. For example, AM facilitates rapid prototyping and offers cost advantages...

This study explores the adoption of medical 3D printing. Through the analysis of journals, newsletters and other publications, insight is created on what types of medical 3D printing applications exist and who has adopted them. It was found that while simple prosthesis have been produced by medical laypersons on simple consumer-level 3D printers, t...

Previous researches on knowledge transfer mainly discuss the transfer between the single organisations or departments. However, not many researches focusing on knowledge transfer to organisation community. Some other literature infer that under certain circumstances, knowledge transfer to community may work better than the transfer to single organi...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to explore the early stage of development of a cluster. The literature on early stage of cluster development shows that there are often random effects such as an entrepreneur and spin-off companies, and in this study, a coordinated approach for cluster development is described. Design/methodology/approach – A...

A presentation on MBA program developing towards a project-based learning approach across the curriculum

This book provides a state-of-the-art overview of the changes and development of the civil international aircraft/aviation industry. It offers a fully up-to-date account of the international developments and structure in the aircraft and aviation industries from a number of perspectives, which include economic, geographical, political and technolog...

This study is on additive manufacturing, also known as 3D printing. Additive manufacturing is different from traditional manufacturing processes that shape products through milling, grinding etc. Instead, with additive manufacturing, layers are added to a product. This allows for three dimensional manufacturing and limited scrap. Additive manufactu...

Additive manufacturing was established over 30 years ago and recently has received increasing attention. It is often claimed to have an enormous impact and to change our lives. Here the impact of 3D consumer level printing on manufacturing industries is investigated. It was found that 3D printing technology is in a high flux and undergoing frequent...

In this chapter Steenhuis succinctly explains the differences in research ideology and strategy (deductive vs. inductive-driven) case study research methods. The post-positivist ideology form of case study method uses a deductive a priori theory-driven and strategy for the unit of analysis that has been popularized by thought leader Robert Yin (199...

The ideal scenario for a company that wishes to expand its reach internationally is to design its operations and supply chain so that they need not vary, regardless of the venue in which they are implemented. But companies that wish to 'go global' cannot do so without the approval and cooperation of the governments of the countries in which they ho...

This research aims to explore the effects that an ageing population can have on total early-stage entrepreneurial activity in three developing countries currently within an efficiency-driven stage of economic development including: Brazil, China, and South Africa. This relationship was explored using a longitudinal database of developing countries...

During the last centuries the United Kingdom became a global power due to the industrial revolution. The United States has similarly benefited from technology advancements. One of the main attributes of the industrial revolution was the innovative ways of thinking and doing things better. In the 21st century, businesses are still striving to do thi...

Purpose – The purpose of this research study was to examine the international transfer of kaizen or continuous improvement. The central research question was formulated as: what national level factors influence the transfer of kaizen, and how? Design/methodology/approach – In the study, a survey interview was followed with semi-structured intervie...

As innovation has been outsourced globally, it has joined manufacturing organizations consisting of diverse cultures, geographies, and partnerships. The use of third-party resources to manage design and innovation has resulted in a new system of knowledge management. As the industry's organizational and financial boundaries have attenuated, a new t...

Despite the beneficial environmental and energy security attributes associated with renewable energy sources, most renewable technologies excluding hydroelectricity cannot compete economically with fossil fuels. According to benchmarked 2010 U.S. installed systems prices, residential, commercial, and utility-scale are $6/W, $5/W, and $4/W, respecti...

Technology is considered as a key factor for economic development. Many authors in the field of technology management mention this impact on economic development as a motivator for their technology oriented study. What is this relationship between technology and economic development? In most studies, the relationship between technology and economy...

This study examines the diffusion models for insights into how governments make decisions on which type of infrastructure projects to undertake. The existing technology diffusion literature was reviewed and based on this a conceptual model was formulated. The study will focus on High Speed Rail (HSR) infrastructure technology. Four countries with t...

So far, the literature on the international transfer of kaizen is inconclusive with regard to what influences successful transfer. The purpose of this study is to contribute to the literature by studying the influence of organization structure and culture. Furthermore, since kaizen is ambiguously used, another purpose it to determine whether person...

This paper examines the challenges faced by Japanese manufacturers during the process oftransfer-ring kaizen to overseas subsidiaries. Case study research was conducted among l5 Japanese manufacturers in the Netherlands. The firsrlevel analysis confirms the conclusions from the literature that the major issues during the process of kaizen implement...

This study explores the competitive nature of the global apple industry and its many intricacies. The apple industry is important to many countries around the world. Four of the major apple producing countries are the United States, China, Chile and New Zealand. In this study, these four countries are compared in the areas of technology, quality su...

This paper reports on the use of a simulation in an introductory operations management course. Much of the literature on simulations treats them as a teaching method. In this paper, the simulation is used for student learning assessment. It was found that student performance was not very good and that financial performance in the game was not relat...

A core, junior-level operations management course was redesigned to more than twice the original size. One of the design changes in the course was to change the format from biweekly lectures from the instructor to a once a week lecture from the instructor and a once a week discussion-oriented seminars with a peer-mentor. The peer-mentor had previou...

This study sheds light on the international kaizen transfer process. Two research questions were explored: what are the major stages in the kaizen transfer process? And what are the activities, positive and negative factors influencing each stage? Case studies with 15 Japanese manufacturers in the Netherlands revealed that there are three stages in...

Much of the extensive literature on the scholarship of teaching and learning is aimed at primary and secondary education compared with tertiary education. Within this last literature stream, the main focus is more on undergraduate studies then on the Masters level. Although PhD supervision is at the top of the academic teaching process and forms an...

This paper reports on the use of a simulation in an introductory operations management course. Much of the literature on simulations treats them as a teaching method. In this paper, the simulation is used for student learning assessment. It was found that student performance was not very good and that financial performance in the game was not relat...

We investigate whether there were common causes for the withdrawal from the regional aircraft market of three established manufacturers (BAE Systems, Fokker and Saab), while competitors thrived. We focus on the markets for 50- and 100-seat aircraft. One cause concerning the 50-seat market was the introduction of a new class of aircraft, the regiona...

Certain regions in the world are economically very successful. They are connected with prominent universities. Examples are the Route 128 region near Boston which is connected with MIT and the Goteborg area in Sweden which is related to Chalmers University of Technology. In this knowledge era the issue is how to best use the knowledge that is creat...

One of the factors that can influence the economic status of countries is the education of the workforce. Improvements in education can positively impact economic growth. This paper is oriented on one program in particular, i.e. a PhD program in Industrial Engineering and Management with an emphasis on international issues. This program started in...

The purpose of this paper is to examine whether Japanese companies are still concerned with transferring Japanese management systems to overseas subsidiaries and, if so, what are the main problems that arise during the transfer process? How are Japanese manufacturers managing these problems? Semi-structured interviews were conducted with representa...

The commercial aircraft manufacturing industry has been largely dominated by the advanced economies in North America and Western Europe. During recent decades, several emerging economies have invested heavily in the commercial aircraft industry, notably in regional aircraft manufacturing. This paper describes the global regional aircraft industry b...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a process‐based design of integrated management systems (IMS) implementation. Design/methodology/approach An extensive survey of peer‐reviewed literature was conducted. Based on the literature review, a comprehensive methodology for the design and implementation of an IMS was developed. Findings A c...

This paper describes experiences with online quizzes in an operations management course. Online quizzes were introduced to offset larger class sizes. During several quarters, experimentation with online quizzes took place including the number of attempts, the amount of time allowed and the topical coverage in the quizzes. Three research questions a...

This article describes the use of classroom communications systems, otherwise known as clickers, for measuring student learning over time. In an introductory operations management course, they were used to track student learning and progress. Student learning was assessed based upon the three lower levels in Bloom's taxonomy: knowledge, understandi...

An international investment decision, such as through FDI, is sometimes followed some years later by a divestment decision. In this paper, we explore the current viewpoints and insights with regard to divestment theories. We also look for specific lessons that can be learned from divestments that relate back to the initial investment decision. We f...

Consideration is given to achieving organisational sustainability through a holistic, integrated and multi stakeholderspsila participative approach. The notion of ldquooptimizing production processesrdquo to achieve sustainability is not sufficient since most of the unsustainable processes are found outside the certified manufacturing facility. Ach...

Many regions in the world, in developed and developing countries are striving for advanced technological and economic development. In this paper, based on a study of university related start-up companies some of the main barriers for growth are described. The findings are then discussed in a wider context of economic growth and whether it is possib...

Libya has become a transition economy due to global industrial and political changes in the past decades. Being for long time under government control has created a number of challenges for the management of the SOEs. The most challenging aspect is firm performance improvement. Based on a pilot study, this paper develops a conceptual model that det...

Libya has become a transition economy due to global industrial and political changes in the past decades. Being for long time under government control has created a number of challenges for the management of the SOEs. The most challenging aspect is firm performance improvement. Based on a pilot study, this paper develops a conceptual model that det...

Since the 1980s, transferability of Japanese management systems (JMSs) abroad has become an increasing focus of research. However, the conclusions emerging from studies in this field have been conflicting. The main reasons for discordance have been the use of vague definitions of terms and varying methods employed by researchers to measure the inte...

The transferability of Japanese management systems (JMSs) abroad has been studied intensively since the 1980s. However, the conclusions regarding this study field are mixed. Such confusion is caused by the vague definition of terms and the different methods employed by researchers to measure the transferability of the management systems abroad. Thi...

In recent years, a shift has been noted towards more empirical research in the field of Operations Management. Much of this shift has been towards survey-based research but case study research has also become more acceptable. In this paper, first an overview is provided about different types of empirical research. After this, a comparison is made b...

This paper examines to what extent the international transfer of production activities is real or generalisable by analysing the location shifts in passenger car manufacturing since 1997. The findings illustrate that there is no conclusive evidence that passenger car manufacturing is relocated from high labour cost towards low labour cost countries...

Several publications have appeared in the field of Operations Management which rank Operations Management related journals. Several ranking systems exist for journals based on , for example, perceived relevance and quality, citation, and author affiliation. Many academics also publish at conferences but we have not come across publications that ran...

This paper analyses the technology development and technology transfer strategies in the aircraft manufacturing industry for four industrially developing countries. It is concluded from four case studies that technology catch-up is extremely difficult due to aircraft technology characteristics. Based on this, several propositions are developed conc...

Manufacturing companies worry that producing in high labour-cost countries can not be sustained and are considering moving manufacturing to low labour-cost regions. Manufacturers that are considering this approach should be aware that moving to low-labour cost countries does not always lead to cost reductions. Cost increases may occur as a result o...

This paper analyses the technology development and technology transfer strategies in the aircraft manufacturing industry for four industrially developing countries. It is concluded from four case studies that technology catch-up is extremely difficult due to aircraft technology characteristics. Based on this, several propositions are developed conc...

This paper proposes a new approach to defining high technology by distinguishing two different aspects. First, complexity, which is a more or less a `static' view on high technology and is applied to both the final product as well as the production process. Second, the newness, relates to a requirement to continually update the products or processe...

Operations Management journal rankings are frequently published. Information on Operations Management conferences is much harder to find. This may be due to the difficulties of ranking conferences as well as due to the different motives that contributors to conferences have. In this paper we perform exploratory analysis to determine for one specifi...

We investigate whether there are common causes for the withdrawal from the regional aircraft market of three established manufacturers (BAE Systems, Fokker and Saab), while competitors thrived. We focus on the markets for 50- and 100-seat aircraft. One cause concerning the 50-seat market was the introduction of a new class of aircraft, the regional...

Over the past 20 years, several articles have appeared in the operations management literature that have suggested that the link between operations management academics and operations management practitioners has been weakened. It has been suggested that to improve this link, more empirical research is required. However, there are different methods...

Meredith (1998) argues for more case and field research studies in the field of operations management. Based on a literature review, we discuss several existing approaches to case studies and their characteristics. These approaches include; the Grounded Theory approach which proposes no prior literature review in the substantive area under study (G...

Operations management, international management, public policy and economic geography are scientific areas which come together in the study of international technology transfer. This study shows how each of these areas has its own central issues but also has specific parts that are relevant for research on international technology transfer. It is e...