Browsing by Author "Aitken, James"

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  • Assessing adoption factors for additive manufacturing: insights from case studies 
    Handfield, Robert B.; Aitken, James; Turner, Neil; Boehme, Tillmann; Bozarth, Cecil (MDPI, 2022-06-10)
    Background: Research on Additive Manufacturing [AM] provides few guidelines for successful adoption of the technology in different market environments. This paper seeks to address this gap by developing a framework that ...
  • Covid-19 response of an additive manufacturing cluster in Australia 
    Boehme, Tillmann; Aitken, James; Turner, Neil; Handfield, Robert B. (Emerald, 2021-07-22)
    Purpose The sudden arrival of Covid-19 severely disrupted the supply chain of personal protective equipment (PPE) in Australia. This paper aims to examine the development of a geographical cluster, which, through the ...
  • Designing and managing multiple pipelines 
    Aitken, James; Childerhouse, Paul; Christopher, Martin; Towill, Denis R. (Council of Logisticts Management, 2005-01-01)
    There is now a growing recognition that supply chains should be designed from ‘the customer backwards’ rather than from ‘the company outwards’. If such a view is accepted then the implication is that since the organisation ...
  • A framework for understanding managerial responses to supply chain complexity 
    Turner, Neil; Aitken, James; Bozarth, Cecil (Emerald, 2018-06-04)
    Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the nature of supply chain complexity and extend this with literature developed within the project domain. The authors use the lens of ambidexterity (the ability both to ...
  • Social enterprise housing supply chains for resource-constrained communities: a complexity lens approach 
    Boehme, Tillmann; Fan, Joshua; Birchnell, Thomas; Aitken, James; Turner, Neil; Deakins, Eric (Emerald, 2023-07-21)
    Purpose: Delivering housing to resource-constrained communities is a complex process beset with difficulties. This study employs a complexity lens to examine the approach taken by a social enterprise in Australia to develop ...
  • Supply chain integration within the context of a supplier association : case studies of four supplier associations 
    Aitken, James (Cranfield University, 1998)
    The last three decades have seen a continuous interest from academics and practitioners in the development of theory and best practice methods in the field of supply chain management. Most of the evidence gathered ...
  • Understanding, Implementing and Exploiting Agility and Leanness. 
    Aitken, James; Christopher, Martin; Towill, Denis R. (Taylor and Francis, 2002-04)
    The latter part of the 20th century saw the lean production paradigm positively impact many market sectors ranging from automotive through to construction. In particular, there is much evidence to suggest that level ...