
Jaideep MotwaniGrand Valley State University | GVSU
Jaideep Motwani
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This research critically examines the relationship between agricultural ecological protection and the sustainability of food production within the Yangtze River Economic Belt, a crucial area for China’s environmental and food sustainability. By developing a comprehensive evaluation framework, this study utilizes various analytical tools, such as en...
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The purpose of this paper is to examine the mediating role of immediate performance outcomes on the relationship between dimensions of supply chain integration (SCI) and financial performance.
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This study tests the proposed model linking dimensions of SCI, immediate performance outcomes and financial performance...
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the antecedents and outcomes of supplier integration. Based on an extensive literature review, the study has proposed a research model, which includes both the antecedents and consequences of supplier integration. The study has included contextual factors, namely, trust, relationship commitment to...
This chapter discusses how systems thinking (ST) can be put into context in companies and how it can be applied to initiate and sustain change. For that change to be introduced and maintained there must be a synergistic relationship between all the role players. A case study is deployed to illustrate that the path to organizational effectiveness an...
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Even though supply chain integration (SCI) has been considered as a vital contributor to business performance, the research shows inconsistency in its finding. Accounting for these inconsistencies, researchers (Fabbe-Costes and Jahre, 2007; Van der Vaart and van Donk, 2008) have highlighted the need to relate the level of integration in a s...
Although the benefits of faculty member’s communication behaviours have been examined and discussed in earlier studies, they have been mostly done in the context of traditional classrooms or online learning. This study examines the effect of faculty member’s communication behaviours on student’s motivation which further impacts students’ affective...
The discourse in this presentation is about how talent can be viewed as appropriate techniques and explicit practices enhanced by experience useful in the value creation system. Talent can be deconstructed to progress the necessary efficacy in organization. A limited literature is drawn to understand the role of structures and technology in the val...
The discussion progressed in this chapter is about the protection of organizational knowledge in competitive environments. Knowledge can leak in the value creation networks embedded in knowledge-intensive firms, and a collaborative approach can be utilized to minimize risk and increase sustainability. For knowledge to be preserved from unintentiona...
The argument presented in this article is that highly productive workplaces can be inclusive, and purposefully built to produce the goods and services demanded by customers. A socio-technical system approach can be inclusive in terms of talent and technology and is subject to deconstruction. The characterization of diversity can be made in at least...
Quality and efficiency within healthcare are not being realised to the degree that they should be; waste in particular is rampant throughout organisations, and indeed in the entire sector. Should the US healthcare system adopt lean processes - will lean production philosophies translate effectively into this service sector? Also, are electronic hea...
This article discusses how leakage of knowledge can occur in value creation networks embedded in knowledge-intensive firms, and how a collaborative approach can be utilized to minimize risk and increase sustainability. For knowledge to be preserved from unintentional outflow, its confidential nature and description must be understood at all levels....
The discourse in this presentation is about how talent, explicit knowing, and appropriate techniques, can be de-constructed to progress the necessary effcacy in the structure of the value creation process. Value is created anytime an action is taken for which the benefits exceed the costs, or anytime an action can be prevented for which the costs e...
The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of the intensity level of just-in-time practices, on the flexibility dimension of the manufacturing competitive priorities. The paper simply postulates that there is a strong positive association between the intensity level of JIT practices and manufacturing flexibility. The analyses in this paper...
Despite the delay in considering lean processes, the public sector is now in a position that they have no excuse or reason to ignore lean processes, considering the challenges they are facing in the 21st century. Using four case examples of lean implementation in the public sector, this paper identifies the key reasons for implementing lean process...
Lean, Six Sigma, business process reengineering, Kaizen, socio-technical systems (STS), and high performance work systems, among others, are some of the systems, strategies and philosophies that organisations have implemented to reduce cost, improve efficiency, enhance customer service and boost profitability. By means of a detailed case study, thi...
For change to take place within a healthcare setting, hospital's administrators and practitioners will need to develop cognitive pathways in order to recognise the direct relationship between poor procedural systems and practitioners' reactionary measures. In this paper, we illustrate, by means of four case examples, how hospital administrators and...
This paper revisits the past and provides an extensive overview and analysis of the three major experiments conducted by General Motor's (GM) in the 1980s. Each experiment offered an entirely different paradigm for auto manufacturing, for union-management and employee-management relations. Although all aspects of the three experiments can be viewed...
Supply chain management has emerged as a vital capability of operational excellence for companies in India, which is currently one of the fastest growing emerging economies. Indian business is dominated by small and medium sized enterprises (SME). With a smaller size, narrow span of operations, and scarce resources, these businesses tend to be less...
In this paper, a methodology for minimizing downside risks in relationship to the supplier base, supplier capacities, purchase-order-quantity, purchase-order-time, and selling-price is presented. Specific purchasing and selling strategies to minimize downside risks when suppliers have limited capacities is offered. Numerical analyses are used to de...
Recently, there has been an increased interest in the family business
organization. Traditionally, the ideal typical organizational model was one
where the management, governance, and ownership entities are kept separate. This principal agent model has been a subject of public debate in the wake of several corporate scandals. In the family business...
In this research, we consider a production planning problem that determines the production timings and quantities for multiple products over a finite number of periods without violating capacity constraints. This problem is commonly referred to as the capacitated lot sizing (CLS) problem. We develop a model that explicitly considers setup times for...
This paper studies how to set revenue targets by finding the best trade-off between the expected return for achieving a target and the expected cost for missing a target when the revenue performance is stochastic. The corresponding formulas of calculating the target under the consideration of revenue maximisation, risk control, and revenue maximisa...
Declining enrollments has been a major concern for the Information Systems (IS) community over the last decade. While there are many issues to consider, one possible explanation for this decline is the negative stereotypical image students hold about IS professionals. Moreover, the underrepresentation of women in the IS field, has also been linked...
This paper uses non-linear least square method for developing stochastic models to fit the historical ordinal data for evaluating service performances. This paper then provides formula to adjust current criteria to a future point, to set criteria to promote performance, and determine criteria to hedge risks. This paper shows that current criteria c...
The rising significance of indirect costs attracts a greater prominence to total cost considerations in purchasing decisions for capital goods. Purchasing decisions made on the basis of a life cycle cost analysis include both, direct costs and indirect costs accruing over the entire lifespan. Existing models for life cycle cost analysis differ sign...
Over the past decade, companies of all sizes have faced tremendous pressure to improve their manufacturing operations, productivity, and customer service in order to successfully compete in the global business arena As a result, companies have experimented with different strategies and techniques. The techniques that look the most promising appear...
In recent years, the contribution of budgeting to corporate success is being questioned. In spite of this criticism, scholars have hardly presented any context-specific and integrated recommendations about how to design budgeting systems. Instead, most suggestions are mere descriptions of individual aspects which are often based on anecdotal eviden...
The process by which managers have influence on the setting of their budget goals, participative budgeting (PB), has been researched extensively since the 1960s. This paper provides a comprehensive and critical review of the empirical PB literature, which still lacks such a detailed and broad-scope examination, derives practical recommendations and...
This article analyses and tests a novel framework for the evaluation of an ERP project. The framework incorporates specific performance measures, which are linked to a previously developed model, (the ‘six-imperatives’ framework) and are relevant to ERP implementation Two case studies illustrate the use of the framework in two Greek companies a...
Using GLOBE classification and findings, this paper compares the family characteristics and work cultures of family businesses in Anglo, Germanic, and Nordic cultures. Results indicate differing patterns in terms of the involvement of the family in the family business and other key organizational dimensions. While all three regions share their weak...
Results of an empirical study focusing on information system (IS) managers perception of IS failures are presented. One hundred thirty IS managers participated in this study. The study concluded that in spite of differences in background and personal characteristics, a substantial agreement existed among IS managers on issues of system development,...
In the recent years, sustainability has become a slogan for raising social, economic and environmental awareness. Higher education institutions play an important role in promoting sustainable development principles and practices. In addition to educating students on sustainability topics, these institutions should take on a leadership role in incor...
This paper examines the impact of culture on family businesses in two regions of Africa: sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle Eastern region. Nine cross-culturally comparable “etic” dimensions are used to assess characteristics of family firms in both regions, based on the Culturally-sensitive Assessment System and Education (CASE) project. Overall, t...
Among the major changes related to the emergence of lean production that the European automotive component sector has undergone over the last 5 years, new approaches to quality management is one of the most significant. However, there is very little literature, in terms of case studies or examples, that focuses on the daily struggle in companies of...
Cameras are installed on roadside to monitor traffic. In Hong Kong, still-images of traffic conditions are captured at a fixed time interval. These images are now posted on the internet. In this research, we develop an image-based traffic monitoring approach. This approach is an important component of automatic traffic-information provision system....
In this research, we present a heuristic for the Capacitated Lot-Sizing (CLS) problem without set-up time considerations and no backordering option. The CLS problem is formulated as a mixed integer-programming problem with an underlying fixed charge transportation problem structure. This formulation is flexible enough to handle different types of p...
This article analyses and tests a novel framework for the evaluation of an ERP project. The framework incorporates specific performance measures, which are linked to a previously developed model, (the ‘six-imperatives’ framework) and are relevant to ERP implementation Two case studies illustrate the use of the framework in two Greek companies aimin...
This article analyses and tests a novel framework for the evaluation of an ERP project. The framework incorporates specific performance measures, which are linked to a previously developed model, (the ‘six-imperatives’ framework) and are relevant to ERP implementation Two case studies illustrate the use of the framework in two Greek companies aimin...
This article analyses and tests a novel framework for the evaluation of an ERP project. The framework incorporates specific performance measures, which are linked to a previously developed model, (the 'six-imperatives 'framework) and are relevant to ERP implementation Two case studies illustrate the use of the framework in two Greek companies aimin...
This paper compares the family characteristics and work cultures of family businesses in Anglo, Southern Asia, and Confucian Asia cultures. Using the GLO BE classification and findings, the Anglo cluster of nations is distinguished by its strong performance orientation but weak family orientation. The Confucian Asian cluster is characterized by a s...
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is an emerging technology increasingly considered by organisations world wide to coordinate their supply chain in real time. We examined a pilot implementation of RFID at one of the biggest aerospace and defence manufacturers. Case study methodology was followed to collect data from multiple sources. The result...
A major objective in database physical design is to minimise disk access in processing database transactions. Vertical partitioning is a major design approach to ensure fewer disk accesses. In this paper, we consider the use of Cluster Identification (CI)-based approaches to produce vertical partitions in database design. To produce partitions, the...
The Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) paradigm introduced a few years back has already become the driving force behind enterprise systems. It is also a force behind most cutting edge technologies today. Although much is written about SOA, empirical studies on its implementation are next to none. This exploratory case study examines a pilot implem...
In order to understand the reasons for women’s underrepresentation in IS, we extended the IS Major Choice Goals Model, which identifies the major factors that influence students’ pursuit of IS majors and careers. There were significant differences between female and male students in terms of self-efficacy, interests, and choice goals. Significant g...
Strategic and operational issues and performance measures in the internationalisation process of small and medium enterprises (SME) are analysed. We incorporate recent case studies of specific SME experience, the empirical results on the determinants of foreign direct investment (FDI) flows, and the general management strategy literature to develop...
Due to geographical proximity and cultural affinity, many Hong Kong Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) outsource their software development activities to China. The purpose of this paper is to examine this working relationship between Chinese software developers and Hong Kong SMEs. Specifically, through our study, we hope to increase the understan...
Corporate Governance (CG) and Enterprise Systems (ESs) have attracted a great deal of attention from academics and practitioners. Financial scandals (Enron, WorldCom, etc.) and information system breakdowns are common nowadays. This paper argues that these failures are closely correlated. It shows the correlation and makes some suggestions about ho...
Purpose – This paper seeks to explore the role that boards can play in the contribution of organizational performance and to empirically examine the relationship between the chairman, key board composition variables and firm performance. Design/methodology/approach – The data presented are drawn from a sample of 27 chairmen of Greek corporations li...
In this paper, we address the issues of the need for and the future of innovation networks in the automotive sector. Specifically, the aim of the study is to explore the frequency of the occurrence of innovation networks in the automotive industry and identify the status quo of their management practices. Through a series of semistructured intervie...
The primary objectives of this study were to analyse the role of innovations in the service sector, to analyse how innovation activities are organised and to identify the factors of success. A survey among 1450 service firms, each employing more than 500 employees, from different industries (e.g., wholesale and retail, transportation and communicat...
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This paper aims to present an empirically developed and tested process to address the limitations in the literature on the lack of appropriate performance measures and benchmarks for recording activity and sub‐process related cost. The process presented integrates performance measures, process cost accounting tools and benchmarking.
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Innovation is one of the key drivers of economic success. However, the global environment is changing and makes innovation management more competitive. In order to sustain an advantage, companies seem to adopt more flexible schemes of organization. Specifically, innovation networks appear useful to researchers and practitioners. This paper...
The sharp decline in the number of students pursuing information systems (IS) degrees is a source of great concern not only for academic institutions offering IS degrees, but also for companies in need of hiring qualified professionals. In response, university educators are searching for mechanisms to generate larger pools of IS graduates. This stu...
Given the substantial investments of time, money and other resources, as well as the technical and organisational risks involved, it is important to understand what is needed to ensure a successful ERP implementation. In this study, we identified the critical success factors for ERP implementations from the relevant literature, categorised them int...
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is an emerging technology increasingly considered by organizations worldwide to coordinate their supply chain in real time. In order to explore the potential business case for RFID we examine a pilot implementation of RFID at one of the biggest Aerospace and Defense manufacturers. Case study methodology was fol...
Manufacturing managers in Indian companies are faced with fierce global competitive strategies by the shift of many multinational companies to India. They are forced to excel in all the domains of manufacturing including quality, cost, delivery, and flexibility. In this paper, by means of a case study, we illustrate how a multinational Indian corpo...
Recent years have witnessed a dramatic increase in ERP adoption and diffusion in countries all over the world. However, not all firms have been successful in their ERP implementations. Using a case study methodology grounded in business process change theory, we examine the generic and unique factors (both cultural and non-cultural) that affect ERP...
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) adoption involves initiating the appropriate business process changes and information technology upgrades to enhance enterprise performance, quality, costs, flexibility and responsiveness. While the number of articles in ERP implementation is substantial, limited attention has been given to the ERP adoption by Sma...
Firms often turn to Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) as a solution to operational level problems leading to business excellence. But what can be done when process maps give you a clean bill of health instead? This paper examines two such companies with severe operational problems that were considering ERP implementation. Traditional process maps...
This paper examines the relevance for the emerging markets of the construct of family business, in terms of three parameters – pre-dominance of the family in business, engagement of the family dominantly in the business, and identification of the family with the business. The literature proposes these parameters to be the distinctive measures of fa...
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems play an important role in integrating information and processes across departmental
boundaries (Reimers, 2003; Klaus et al., 2000; Sankar et al., 2005). Organisations, especially in developing countries, have
adopted these information systems extensively to overcome the limitations of fragmented and incomp...
The adoption of ERP systems by Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) is a major endeavour and a complex project with many potential difficulties concerning budget overruns and benefits reached. SMEs must apply contemporary performance measurement methodologies to ensure efficiency and effectiveness in their overall Information Technology (IT) a...
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) adoption involves initiating the appropriate business process changes and information technology upgrades to enhance enterprise performance, quality, costs, flexibility and responsiveness. While the number of articles in ERP implementation is substantial, limited attention has been given to the ERP adoption by Sma...
In today’s dynamic business environment; customer needs, competition, globalization, and technology have combined to produce a powerful effect on the process of delivering goods and services to the marketplace. According to Closs and Stank (1999, p. 59), businesses have abandoned the “vertical, functional organizational structure characteristic of...
help improve their productivity and customer service while lowering costs and inventory levels. The inherent appeal of ERP has not gone unnoticed in the business curriculum either. Several business schools (Babson College, Louisiana State University, University of Idaho, University of California at Chico, University of North Carolina, and Grand Val...
Citizens around the globe are demanding better services and more responsiveness from their local, state, and national governments. Governments are responding to this challenge by implementing a vast range of information technologies (IT) to reengineer government processes, deliver services, and manage resources more effectively. As such e-governmen...
Auf Basis einer komparativen Fallstudie wird die Bedeutung kultureller Besonderheiten für erfolgreiche ERP-Einführungen untersucht. Am Beispiel eines indischen und eines US-amerikanischen Unternehmens wird gezeigt, dass die Erfolgsfaktoren kulturspezifisch variieren, z. B. im Bereich des Führungsstils oder bei Einbindung externer Expertise. Allerdi...
Purpose – To assess the patterns of market orientation within the small business sector. Design/methodology/approach – After a pilot study involving interviews with owner-managers, and covert and overt observation of small businesses' marketing practices, depth interviews by telephone and face-to-face were conducted in one state of the USA. Data, c...
This study reports the results from a survey of 368 family-owned small to medium size enterprises (SMEs) with regard to the importance, nature, and extent of succession planning. By categorizing SMEs according to their annual revenues, total number of employees, and number of family members employed within the firm, significant differences were fou...
If successfully implemented and managed, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems can provide important benefits to organizations. In this case study the implementation of an ERP system at global automotive supplier company (Global Auto) is discussed in detail. After successfully implementing the system at a major factory in the United States, Gl...
Questionnaire surveys of 156 U.S. managers are used to study knowledge acquisition behaviors. The study specifically examined the relationship among perceived accessibility, perceived task complexity, and the information-gathering behavior of U.S. managers. One of the major conclusions resulting from this study is that the accessibility of an infor...
Knowledge Management Systems are increasingly becoming important to both practitioners and researchers. One area of application of such systems is the formation of organizational teams with appropriate knowledge content to solve complex and novel problems. A common predicament, however, is that teams are often formed with only partial problem domai...
Kumar, A., Motwani, J. (2006). Deployment of Mass Customization Strategy for Sustained Strategic Advantage. Global Manufacturing and Innovation Conference at Coimbatore Institute of Technology.
Kumar, A., Motwani, J., Dangayach, G. S. (2006). Six-Sigma Implementation by Indian Corporations. Global Manufacturing and Innovation Conference at Coimbatore Institute of Technology.
As more and more organizations move from functional to process-based IT infrastructure, ERP systems are becoming one of today's most widespread IT solutions. However, not all firms have been successful in their ERP implementations. Using a case study methodology grounded in business process change theory, this research tries to understand the facto...
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– Business process change (BPC) is an organizational initiative to achieve significant improvement in performance and has been extensively reported in the information systems literature. Total quality management (TQM) has been employed to improve the quality of processes within a business unit. In this research an attempt is made to link BP...
Given the substantial investments of time, money and other resources, as well as the technical and organisational risks involved it is imperative to understand the factors that facilitate/inhibit the success of ERP implementations. Using a case study methodology grounded in business process change theory, this paper attempts to identify the critica...
Knowledge management (KM) has become the latest strategy in increasing organizational competitiveness. It is the most innovative, creative, and important management concept to come along in the last 25 years. It doesn't imply downsizing, restructuring, or reorganizing; rather, KM reflects a point made by Lew Platt, former CEO of Hewlett- Packard (H...
There is a growing interest among companies of all sizes to implement enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems to overcome the limitations of fragmented and incompatible legacy systems. According to a recent study, the ERP market is expected to reach $1 trillion by 2010. ERP systems can provide substantial benefits to organizations through the im...
Dow Chemical's implementation of six sigma is a well-documented success story. In a short course of about three years, Dow's six-sigma program has surpassed most expectations and goals of strategic and financial performance. Currently, the Dow's program has registered an impressive $1.5b savings since 1999. Furthermore, the program has been very ef...
Several studies have concluded that the quality of a firm plays a dominant role in influencing its competitiveness. It is, therefore, useful to dynamically monitor quality programs of companies for their continued effectiveness in creating and sustaining strategic advantage. In this paper, we present a methodology that constructs an index, called t...