Browsing by Author "Szwejczewski, Marek"

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  • Manufacturer-supplier relationships : An empirical study of German manufacturing companies 
    Szwejczewski, Marek; Lemke, Fred; Goffin, Keith (Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2005-01-01)
    Effective management of suppliers is one of the ways manufacturing companies can improve their performance. Typically, it has been argued in the literature that close relationships with suppliers should be developed, in ...
  • Manufacturing standards of performance for success 
    Sweeney, Mike T.; Szwejczewski, Marek (Cranfield School of Management, 1995)
    This paper details the findings of a study of the manufacturing performances and practices of 140 engineering companies in the UK. From this study, significant differences in the manufacturing competitiveness of these firms ...
  • Manufacturing strategy and perfomance:A study of the UK engineering industry 
    Sweeney, Mike T.; Szwejczewski, Marek (Cranfield School of Management, 1995)
    This paper details the findings of a search for manufacturing "strategic groups" in the engineering industry, that is a set of firms competing within an industry on the basis of similar combinations of business scope and ...
  • Product innovation in UK manufacturing companies 
    Goffin, Keith; Szwejczewski, Marek; Sweeney, Michael; New, Colin (Inderscience, 2000-01-01)
    In many sectors of the manufacturing industry, product innovation is an important way for companies to achieve competitive advantage. Regular introductions of new products can be essential, especially in fast-moving markets. ...
  • Product support and the new product development process 
    Anagnostopoulos, Z. (2006)
    Product support is a key aspect in the industrial marketing of not only high-technology products but also heavy goods and software applications, since it strongly influences customer satisfaction and can also be an important ...
  • Risk management in new product development : a systematic review of literature 
    Afzal, Muhammad Akram (Cranfield University, 2012-10)
    The purpose of this thesis is to provide taxonomy of risk management (RM) in new product development (NPD) research and, based on that, to develop a research agenda for this field of study. The review was based on a ...
  • Roads to Resilience: Building Dynamic Approaches to Risk to Achieve Future Success 
    Goffin, Keith; Hopkin, Paul; Szwejczewski, Marek; Kutsch, Elmar (Airmic, 2014-01-28)
    In complex and constantly changing business environments with ever more complex risk, one of the key questions that boards ask of themselves is: “What can we do to future-proof ourselves against the growing array of ...
  • The search for generic manufacturing strategies in the UK engineering industry 
    Sweeney, Mike T.; Szwejczewski, Marek (1996)
    The search for generic manufacturing strategies has been attempted previously using the American and the European Manufacturing Futures survey data. This paper details the results of a study using manufacturing strategy ...
  • A study into continuous improvement initiative sustainability 
    Szwejczewski, Marek; Sweeney, Michael; Butler, Michael (Cranfield University Press, 2013-09-19)
    The idea of continuous improvement is familiar to most managers and there are many examples of how its use can increase a company’s overall performance. However, while numerous companies have adopted the approach, very few ...
  • Supplier Base Management: Experiences from the UK and Germany 
    Lemke, Fred; Goffin, Keith; Szwejczewski, Marek; Pfeiffer, Rolf; Lohmüller, Bertram (Mcb, 2000-01-01)
    Streamlining the supplier base is a common approach in many US and UK manufacturing companies. However, is this approach being adopted in Germany as fast as it has in the UK? This paper describes research that answers ...
  • Supplier management in German manufacturing companies : An empirical investigation 
    Szwejczewski, Marek; Goffin, Keith; Lemke, Fred; Pfeiffer, Rolf; Lohmüller, Bertram (Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2001-01-01)
    A key issue for manufacturers is supplier management, i.e. organising the optimal flow of high quality, value-for-money materials or components from appropriate innovative suppliers. Many companies now recognise the ...
  • Supply base management : an empirical investigation 
    Goffin, Keith; Szwejczewski, Marek; New, Colin (1996-01-01)
    Manufacturing companies place a strong emphasis on the role of supply chain management-the management of supplies, suppliers, inventory and distribution. Supplier management is key and much of the literature talks about ...
  • A systematic review of portfolio management 
    Weedon, R. M. (2003-09)
    This systematic review was conducted to provide a broad assessment of the academic and practitioner literature relating to new product portfolio management. The aim is to identify the methods of new portfolio management ...
  • Tacit knowledge and situated practice in NPD : an in-depth case study 
    Baxter, David; Goffin, Keith; Szwejczewski, Marek; Koners, Ursula (2010-06-13)
    This paper describes a study of knowledge and learning in NPD. For the empirical data collection, one organization took part in an in-depth case study. Multiple sources of data were used, including interviews, repertory ...
  • Tacit knowledge development in a new product development teaching simulation 
    Goffin, Keith; Baxter, David; Szwejczewski, Marek; Cousens, Alan; van der Hoven, Christopher (2010-06-13)
    This paper describes our evaluation of whether participants perceive that they have developed new tacit knowledge during a New Product Development simulation. We assess this by asking the participants their key lessons ...
  • Trends in manufacturing 
    Szwejczewski, Marek (Findlay Media, 2010-03)
  • UK/Germany Factory Performance Comparison 
    New, Colin; Szwejczewski, Marek; Goffin, Keith; Pfeiffer, Rolf; Lohmühler, Bertram (1997-01-01)
    The Management Today Best Factory Awards in association with Cranfield School of Management have been successfully running in the UK in their current format since 1992. The purpose of the awards is to recognize and reward ...