Maria J. Oltra-Mestre- Doctor of Engineering
- Professor (Associate) at Jaume I University
Maria J. Oltra-Mestre
- Doctor of Engineering
- Professor (Associate) at Jaume I University
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Agri‐Food producers have a responsibility to provide safe, secure and sustainable food in a world characterized by disruption and increasing intolerance of waste along supply chains. As such, it is critical that they adopt new technologies to ensure efficient and effective management of their responsibility. While Industry 4.0 (I4.0) technologies c...
Teamworking competence is essential in many operations management environments and can be developed through formal education and practice-based experiences. The main objective of this paper is to describe and to reflect on how to facilitate students in their development in teamworking competence through action learning in Operations Management educ...
Open innovation (OI) has been mainly associated with high-technology firms. This paper aims to analyze how firms in low and medium technology industries implement their OI strategy. In doing so, we explore common patterns in OI strategies by considering inbound, outbound, and coupled OI practices. We also examine whether there are differences in in...
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between the use of open innovation (OI) practices and firm performance, and the role of organizational mechanisms (OMs) (formalization and decentralization) as moderator variables.
Design/methodology/approach
The authors build a theoretical framework to define a set of hypotheses tha...
Open innovation and absorptive capacity are two concepts based on the idea that companies can leverage the knowledge generated externally to improve their innovation performance. The aim of this paper is to analyse the joint effect of open innovation and absorptive capacity on a firm's radical innovation. Open innovation is expressed in terms of ex...
In this study, we argue that a firm's absorptive capacity will vary depending on the strategy it adopts. To examine this, based on the fact that absorptive capacity is developed through the ability to acquire, assimilate, transform and exploit externally-generated knowledge, we look at the importance of each of these dimensions at firms pursuing di...
Purpose
This paper seeks to examine empirically from a contingency perspective the influence of business strategy on the relationship between operations strategy and business results.
Design/methodology/approach
Analysis is carried out on a sample of 76 Spanish ceramic tile firms. Data on strategies are gathered by means of a postal survey address...
In this work we have described the results achieved in the development of competencies in an Operations management course with students using different methodologies. A particular feature of this course is the strong emphasis on several of the professional abilities
In this paper, we study the effects that firms' technological capabilities, as an expression of their technological innovation strategy, have on their international competitiveness. In doing so, we draw on export and international trade literature to justify the influence that the firms' technological activity has on their export performance. In ad...
Purpose
Seeks to focus on operations priority patterns and operations strategy. Configurations by testing them in a specific environment which contributes to demonstrating their applicability and generalizability.
Design/methodology/approach
Using data from 130 Spanish companies with project process organization, their operations strategy is analy...
The identification of technologically innovating firms is related to the development of indicators of their innovation activity. In this study, we carry out a review of indicators of firms’ technological innovation activity and then classify them according to whether they are based on inputs or outputs of the innovation process, and to the sources...
In this study, we analyse the effect that external sources of knowledge and absorptive capacity exert on a firm's output innovation. In addition, we examine the moderating influence of absorptive capacity on the effect that technological opportunities have on output innovation. Empirical research was carried out on a sample of 91 Spanish firms from...
RESUMEN Los principales objetivos del presente trabajo se relacionan con el estudio de los mecanismos de evaluación para el desarrollo de competencias en la asignatura Dirección de la Producción de 4º curso de la Licenciatura de ADEM, y comprobar que la metodología utilizada desarrolla o incentiva estas competencias en todas las modalidades que se...
