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Iqbal, T. (2020). The effect of operations management practices on the competitive advantages of SMEs: A mediating role of supply chain management practices.Uncertain Supply Chain Management, 8(4), 649-662.
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Cao, M. & Zhang, Q., (2011). Supply chain collaboration: Impact on collaborative advantage and firm performance. Journal of Operations Management, 29(3), 163-180.
Chin, T. A., Tat, H. H., & Sulaiman, Z. (2015). Green supply chain management, environmental collaboration and sustainability performance. Procedia Cirp, 26, 695-699.
Chopra, S., Meindl, P. & Kalra, D.V., (2013). Supply chain management: strategy, planning, and operation (Vol. 232). Boston, MA: Pearson.
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Crum, M., Poist, R., Carter, C.R. & Easton, P.L., (2011). Sustainable supply chain management: evolution and future directions. International journal of physical distribution & logistics management, 12(1), 12-36.
David, F. & David, F.R., (2016). Strategic management: A competitive advantage approach, concepts and cases. Pearson–Prentice Hall.
Dwivedi, Y., Ayaburi, E., Boateng, R., & Effah, J. (2019). ICT Unbounded, Social Impact of Bright ICT Adoption. Springer International Publishing.
Elshaer, I.A. & Augustyn, M.M., (2016). Direct effects of quality management on competitive advantage. International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management.
Essila, J. C. (Ed.). (2019). Managing Operations Throughout Global Supply Chains. IGI Global.
Galindo, G. & Batta, R., (2013). Review of recent developments in OR/MS research in disaster operations management. European Journal of Operational Research, 230(2), 201-211.
Galloway, L., Rowbotham, F. & Azhashemi, M., (2012). Operations management in context. Routledge.
Gamble, J.E., Peteraf, M.A. & Thompson, A.A., (2014). Essentials of strategic management: The quest for competitive advantage. McGraw-Hill Education.
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Goetsch, D.L. & Davis, S.B., (2014). Quality management for organizational excellence. Upper Saddle River, NJ: pearson.
Golicic, S. L., & Smith, C. D. (2013). A meta‐analysis of environmentally sustainable supply chain management practices and firm performance. Journal of Supply Chain Management, 49(2), 78-95.
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Hair Jr, J. F., Hult, G. T. M., Ringle, C., & Sarstedt, M. (2016). A primer on partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM). Sage publications.
Halkias, D. (2017). Characteristics and Business Profiles of ImmigrantOwned Small Firms: The Case of Albanian Immigrant Entrepreneurs in Greece.
Herrera, M.E.B., (2015). Creating competitive advantage by institutionalizing corporate social innovation. Journal of Business Research, 68(7), 1468-1474.
Herzallah, A. M., Gutiérrez-Gutiérrez, L., & Munoz Rosas, J. F. (2014). Total quality management practices, competitive strategies and financial performance: the case of the Palestinian industrial SMEs. Total Quality Management & Business Excellence, 25(5-6), 635-649.
Howard, M., Caldwell, N., Smith, L., Maull, R. & Ng, I.C., (2014). Servitization and operations management: a service dominant-logic approach. International Journal of Operations & Production Management.
Hung, S.C., Hung, S.W. & Lin, M.J.J., (2015). Are alliances a panacea for SMEs? The achievement of competitive priorities and firm performance. Total Quality Management & Business Excellence, 26(1-2), 190-202
Ignaciuk, P., & Bartoszewicz, A. (2010, August). Composite control of periodic-review just-in-time inventory systems with asymmetric costs. In 2010 15th International Conference on Methods and Models in Automation and Robotics (pp. 1-6). IEEE.
Ismail, M. D., Domil, A. A., & Isa, A. M. (2014, February). Managerial competence, relationship quality and competitive advantage among SME exporters. In Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences (Vol. 115, No. 1, 138-146). Elsevier.
Ivanov, D., Tsipoulanidis, A. & Schönberger, J., (2017). Global supply chain and operations management. A Decision-Oriented Introduction to the Creation of Value.
Jacobs, F.R., Chase, R.B. & Aquilano, N.J., (2004). Operations management for competitive advantage. Boston: Mc-Graw Hill, 64, 70.
Jacobs, F.R., Chase, R.B. & Lummus, R.R., (2014). Operations and supply chain management (533-535). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill/Irwin.
Kline, R. B. (2015). Principles and practice of structural equation modeling. Guilford publications.
Koh, S. L., Demirbag, M., Bayraktar, E., Tatoglu, E., & Zaim, S. (2007). The impact of supply chain management practices on performance of SMEs. Industrial Management & Data Systems.
Krajewski, L.J., Ritzman, L.P. & Malhotra, M.K., (2013). Operations management. Pearson Education UK.
Lin, H.F., Su, J.Q. & Higgins, A., (2016). How dynamic capabilities affect adoption of management innovations. Journal of Business Research, 69(2), 862-876.
Love, P. E., & Irani, Z. (2004). An exploratory study of information technology evaluation and benefits management practices of SMEs in the construction industry. Information & Management, 42(1), 227-242.
Marchi, V.D., Maria, E.D. & Micelli, S., (2013). Environmental strategies, upgrading and competitive advantage in global value chains. Business strategy and the environment, 22(1), 62-72.
Mentzer, J. T., Stank, T. P., & Esper, T. L. (2008). Supply chain management and its relationship to logistics, marketing, production, and operations management. Journal of business logistics, 29(1), 31-46.
Morris, T., Panza, C., & Potthast, A. (2013). Philosophy & Ethics For Dummies 2 eBook Bundle: Philosophy For Dummies & Ethics For Dummies. John Wiley & Sons.
Mousavi, S. M., & Tavakkoli-Moghaddam, R. (2013). A hybrid simulated annealing algorithm for location and routing scheduling problems with cross-docking in the supply chain. Journal of Manufacturing Systems, 32(2), 335-347.
Pishvaee, M. S., Rabbani, M., & Torabi, S. A. (2011). A robust optimization approach to closed-loop supply chain network design under uncertainty. Applied Mathematical Modelling, 35(2), 637-649.
Prajogo, D., Oke, A., & Olhager, J. (2016). Supply chain processes. International Journal of Operations & Production Management, 36(2), 220-238
Rahman, S. U. (2001). A comparative study of TQM practice and organisational performance of SMEs with and without ISO 9000 certification. International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management, 27(9), 1021-1035
Reid, R.D. & Sanders, N.R., (2015). Operations management: an integrated approach. John Wiley & Sons.
Rexhausen, D., Pibernik, R. & Kaiser, G., (2012). Customer-facing supply chain practices—The impact of demand and distribution management on supply chain success. Journal of Operations Management, 30(4), 269-281.
Ryan, T. P. (2013). Sample size determination and power. John Wiley & Sons.
Seuring, S., (2013). A review of modeling approaches for sustainable supply chain management. Decision support systems, 54(4), 1513-1520.
Sgier, L. (2012). Qualitative data analysis. An Initiat. Gebert Ruf Stift, 19, 19-21.
Singh, M. (2013). Product Quality for Competitive Advantage in Marketing. International Journal of Business and Management Invention, 2(6), 05-08.
Sodhi, M.S., Son, B.G. & Tang, C.S., (2012). Researchers' perspectives on supply chain risk management. Production and operations management, 21(1), 1-13.
Solozhentsev, E.D. (2015). Logic and probabilistic risk models for management of innovations system of country. International Journal of Risk Assessment and Management, 18(3-4), 237-255.
Sorescu, A., Frambach, R.T., Singh, J., Rangaswamy, A. & Bridges, C., (2011). Innovations in retail business models. Journal of Retailing, 87, S3-S16.
Stadtler, H. (2015). Supply chain management: An overview. In Supply chain management and advanced planning ( 3-28). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
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Stevenson, W. J., & Sum, C. C. (2014). Operations management (Vol. 10). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill/Irwin.
Sukati, I., Hamid, A. B., Baharun, R., & Yusoff, R. M. (2012). The study of supply chain management strategy and practices on supply chain performance. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences, 40, 225-233.
Swink, M., Melnyk, S.A., Hartley, J.L. & Cooper, M.B., (2017). Managing operations across the supply chain. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Education.
Tang, O. & Musa, S.N., (2011). Identifying risk issues and research advancements in supply chain risk management. International journal of production economics, 133(1), 25-34.
Tayur, S., Ganeshan, R. & Magazine, M. eds., (2012). Quantitative models for supply chain management (Vol. 17). Springer Science & Business Media.
Terziovski, M. (2010). Innovation practice and its performance implications in small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the manufacturing sector: a resource‐based
Vanichchinchai, A. & Igel, B., (2011). The impact of total quality management on supply chain management and firm's supply performance. International Journal of Production Research, 49(11), 3405-3424.
Wolf, C., Joye, D., Smith, T. W., & Fu, Y. C. (Eds.). (2016). The SAGE handbook of survey methodology. Sage.
Wong, C.Y., Boon-Itt, S. & Wong, C.W., (2011). The contingency effects of environmental uncertainty on the relationship between supply chain integration and operational performance. Journal of Operations Management, 29(6), 604-615.
Zhang, D., Linderman, K. & Schroeder, R.G., (2012). The moderating role of contextual factors on quality management practices. Journal of Operations Management, 30(1-2), 12-23.
Afande, F. O., Ratemo, B. M., & Nyaribo, F. N. (2015). Adoption of supply chain management practices: Review of determining factors. Innovative Systems Design and Engineering, 6(5), 72-77.
Ates, A., Garengo, P., Cocca, P. & Bititci, U., (2013). The development of SME managerial practice for effective performance management. Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, 20(1), 28-54.
Avkiran, N., & Ringle, C. (2018). Partial least squares structural equation modeling. Handbook of Market Research (Vol. 267).
Barney, J.B. & Hesterly, W.S., (2010). Strategic management and competitive advantage: Concepts and cases (4-25). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
Barney, J.B., (2012). Purchasing, supply chain management and sustained competitive advantage: The relevance of resource‐based theory. Journal of supply chain management, 48(2), 3-6.
Barratt, M., Choi, T.Y. & Li, M., (2011). Qualitative case studies in operations management: Trends, research outcomes, and future research implications. Journal of Operations Management, 29(4), 329-342.
Bengat, N. J. (2015). Operations Management Practices and Performance of Agricultural Non-Governmental Organizations in Nairobi County (Doctoral dissertation, University of Nairobi).
Bititci, U.S., Ackermann, F., Ates, A., Davies, J.D., Gibb, S., MacBryde, J., Mackay, D., Maguire, C., Van der Meer, R. & Shafti, F., (2011). Managerial processes: an operations management perspective towards dynamic capabilities. Production Planning and Control, 22(2), 157-173.
Brandenburg, M., Govindan, K., Sarkis, J. & Seuring, S., (2014). Quantitative models for sustainable supply chain management: Developments and directions. European Journal of Operational Research, 233(2), 299-312.
Brown, S. & Bessant, J., (2013). Strategic operations management. Routledge.
Brown, T. A. (2015). Confirmatory factor analysis for applied research. Guilford publications.
Cao, M. & Zhang, Q., (2011). Supply chain collaboration: Impact on collaborative advantage and firm performance. Journal of Operations Management, 29(3), 163-180.
Chin, T. A., Tat, H. H., & Sulaiman, Z. (2015). Green supply chain management, environmental collaboration and sustainability performance. Procedia Cirp, 26, 695-699.
Chopra, S., Meindl, P. & Kalra, D.V., (2013). Supply chain management: strategy, planning, and operation (Vol. 232). Boston, MA: Pearson.
Christopher, M., (2016). Logistics & supply chain management. Pearson UK.
Crum, M., Poist, R., Carter, C.R. & Easton, P.L., (2011). Sustainable supply chain management: evolution and future directions. International journal of physical distribution & logistics management, 12(1), 12-36.
David, F. & David, F.R., (2016). Strategic management: A competitive advantage approach, concepts and cases. Pearson–Prentice Hall.
Dwivedi, Y., Ayaburi, E., Boateng, R., & Effah, J. (2019). ICT Unbounded, Social Impact of Bright ICT Adoption. Springer International Publishing.
Elshaer, I.A. & Augustyn, M.M., (2016). Direct effects of quality management on competitive advantage. International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management.
Essila, J. C. (Ed.). (2019). Managing Operations Throughout Global Supply Chains. IGI Global.
Galindo, G. & Batta, R., (2013). Review of recent developments in OR/MS research in disaster operations management. European Journal of Operational Research, 230(2), 201-211.
Galloway, L., Rowbotham, F. & Azhashemi, M., (2012). Operations management in context. Routledge.
Gamble, J.E., Peteraf, M.A. & Thompson, A.A., (2014). Essentials of strategic management: The quest for competitive advantage. McGraw-Hill Education.
Gilal, F. G., Zhang, J., Gilal, R. G., Gilal, R. G., & Gilal, N. G. (2017). Supply chain management practices and product development: a moderated mediation model of supply chain responsiveness, organization structure, and research and development. Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Systems, 16(01), 35-56.
Goetsch, D.L. & Davis, S.B., (2014). Quality management for organizational excellence. Upper Saddle River, NJ: pearson.
Golicic, S. L., & Smith, C. D. (2013). A meta‐analysis of environmentally sustainable supply chain management practices and firm performance. Journal of Supply Chain Management, 49(2), 78-95.
Guardian. (2014). Why big data will have a big impact on sustainability. Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/big-data-impact-sustainable-business (Accessed: 6 February 2020).
Hair Jr, J. F., Hult, G. T. M., Ringle, C., & Sarstedt, M. (2016). A primer on partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM). Sage publications.
Halkias, D. (2017). Characteristics and Business Profiles of ImmigrantOwned Small Firms: The Case of Albanian Immigrant Entrepreneurs in Greece.
Herrera, M.E.B., (2015). Creating competitive advantage by institutionalizing corporate social innovation. Journal of Business Research, 68(7), 1468-1474.
Herzallah, A. M., Gutiérrez-Gutiérrez, L., & Munoz Rosas, J. F. (2014). Total quality management practices, competitive strategies and financial performance: the case of the Palestinian industrial SMEs. Total Quality Management & Business Excellence, 25(5-6), 635-649.
Howard, M., Caldwell, N., Smith, L., Maull, R. & Ng, I.C., (2014). Servitization and operations management: a service dominant-logic approach. International Journal of Operations & Production Management.
Hung, S.C., Hung, S.W. & Lin, M.J.J., (2015). Are alliances a panacea for SMEs? The achievement of competitive priorities and firm performance. Total Quality Management & Business Excellence, 26(1-2), 190-202
Ignaciuk, P., & Bartoszewicz, A. (2010, August). Composite control of periodic-review just-in-time inventory systems with asymmetric costs. In 2010 15th International Conference on Methods and Models in Automation and Robotics (pp. 1-6). IEEE.
Ismail, M. D., Domil, A. A., & Isa, A. M. (2014, February). Managerial competence, relationship quality and competitive advantage among SME exporters. In Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences (Vol. 115, No. 1, 138-146). Elsevier.
Ivanov, D., Tsipoulanidis, A. & Schönberger, J., (2017). Global supply chain and operations management. A Decision-Oriented Introduction to the Creation of Value.
Jacobs, F.R., Chase, R.B. & Aquilano, N.J., (2004). Operations management for competitive advantage. Boston: Mc-Graw Hill, 64, 70.
Jacobs, F.R., Chase, R.B. & Lummus, R.R., (2014). Operations and supply chain management (533-535). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill/Irwin.
Kline, R. B. (2015). Principles and practice of structural equation modeling. Guilford publications.
Koh, S. L., Demirbag, M., Bayraktar, E., Tatoglu, E., & Zaim, S. (2007). The impact of supply chain management practices on performance of SMEs. Industrial Management & Data Systems.
Krajewski, L.J., Ritzman, L.P. & Malhotra, M.K., (2013). Operations management. Pearson Education UK.
Lin, H.F., Su, J.Q. & Higgins, A., (2016). How dynamic capabilities affect adoption of management innovations. Journal of Business Research, 69(2), 862-876.
Love, P. E., & Irani, Z. (2004). An exploratory study of information technology evaluation and benefits management practices of SMEs in the construction industry. Information & Management, 42(1), 227-242.
Marchi, V.D., Maria, E.D. & Micelli, S., (2013). Environmental strategies, upgrading and competitive advantage in global value chains. Business strategy and the environment, 22(1), 62-72.
Mentzer, J. T., Stank, T. P., & Esper, T. L. (2008). Supply chain management and its relationship to logistics, marketing, production, and operations management. Journal of business logistics, 29(1), 31-46.
Morris, T., Panza, C., & Potthast, A. (2013). Philosophy & Ethics For Dummies 2 eBook Bundle: Philosophy For Dummies & Ethics For Dummies. John Wiley & Sons.
Mousavi, S. M., & Tavakkoli-Moghaddam, R. (2013). A hybrid simulated annealing algorithm for location and routing scheduling problems with cross-docking in the supply chain. Journal of Manufacturing Systems, 32(2), 335-347.
Pishvaee, M. S., Rabbani, M., & Torabi, S. A. (2011). A robust optimization approach to closed-loop supply chain network design under uncertainty. Applied Mathematical Modelling, 35(2), 637-649.
Prajogo, D., Oke, A., & Olhager, J. (2016). Supply chain processes. International Journal of Operations & Production Management, 36(2), 220-238
Rahman, S. U. (2001). A comparative study of TQM practice and organisational performance of SMEs with and without ISO 9000 certification. International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management, 27(9), 1021-1035
Reid, R.D. & Sanders, N.R., (2015). Operations management: an integrated approach. John Wiley & Sons.
Rexhausen, D., Pibernik, R. & Kaiser, G., (2012). Customer-facing supply chain practices—The impact of demand and distribution management on supply chain success. Journal of Operations Management, 30(4), 269-281.
Ryan, T. P. (2013). Sample size determination and power. John Wiley & Sons.
Seuring, S., (2013). A review of modeling approaches for sustainable supply chain management. Decision support systems, 54(4), 1513-1520.
Sgier, L. (2012). Qualitative data analysis. An Initiat. Gebert Ruf Stift, 19, 19-21.
Singh, M. (2013). Product Quality for Competitive Advantage in Marketing. International Journal of Business and Management Invention, 2(6), 05-08.
Sodhi, M.S., Son, B.G. & Tang, C.S., (2012). Researchers' perspectives on supply chain risk management. Production and operations management, 21(1), 1-13.
Solozhentsev, E.D. (2015). Logic and probabilistic risk models for management of innovations system of country. International Journal of Risk Assessment and Management, 18(3-4), 237-255.
Sorescu, A., Frambach, R.T., Singh, J., Rangaswamy, A. & Bridges, C., (2011). Innovations in retail business models. Journal of Retailing, 87, S3-S16.
Stadtler, H. (2015). Supply chain management: An overview. In Supply chain management and advanced planning ( 3-28). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
Statista. (2018). Supply chain industry: biggest challenges 2018. Available at: https://www.statista.com/statistics/829634/biggest-challenges-supply-chain/ (Accessed: 6 February 2020).
Stevenson, W. J., & Sum, C. C. (2014). Operations management (Vol. 10). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill/Irwin.
Sukati, I., Hamid, A. B., Baharun, R., & Yusoff, R. M. (2012). The study of supply chain management strategy and practices on supply chain performance. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences, 40, 225-233.
Swink, M., Melnyk, S.A., Hartley, J.L. & Cooper, M.B., (2017). Managing operations across the supply chain. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Education.
Tang, O. & Musa, S.N., (2011). Identifying risk issues and research advancements in supply chain risk management. International journal of production economics, 133(1), 25-34.
Tayur, S., Ganeshan, R. & Magazine, M. eds., (2012). Quantitative models for supply chain management (Vol. 17). Springer Science & Business Media.
Terziovski, M. (2010). Innovation practice and its performance implications in small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the manufacturing sector: a resource‐based
Vanichchinchai, A. & Igel, B., (2011). The impact of total quality management on supply chain management and firm's supply performance. International Journal of Production Research, 49(11), 3405-3424.
Wolf, C., Joye, D., Smith, T. W., & Fu, Y. C. (Eds.). (2016). The SAGE handbook of survey methodology. Sage.
Wong, C.Y., Boon-Itt, S. & Wong, C.W., (2011). The contingency effects of environmental uncertainty on the relationship between supply chain integration and operational performance. Journal of Operations Management, 29(6), 604-615.
Zhang, D., Linderman, K. & Schroeder, R.G., (2012). The moderating role of contextual factors on quality management practices. Journal of Operations Management, 30(1-2), 12-23.