Case report papers guidelines: Recommendations for the reporting of case studies or action research in Business Management

Marín-García, Juán A.; García-Sabater, José P.; Maheut, Julien

doi:10.4995/wpom.16244

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“…However, in a later phase, the findings were related to existing theories in the research field. The ethnographic research methods enabled a deep insight into the dynamic phenomena of multiple actions to manage the level of standardisation, which is valuable when developing theory from process data (Langley, 1999;Marin-Garcia, Garcia-Sabater & Maheut, 2022;Säfsten, Gustavsson & Ehnsiö, 2020).…”

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The issue of corporate mandatory standards in production improvement programmes

Linderson,

Eshetu Birkie,

Bellgran

2024

JIEM

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Purpose: This paper aims to explore and describe how companies manage the level of standardisation of improvement practices in a multisite context. It seeks to explain the managerial strategies applied to change the standardisation level in manufacturing companies with multiple production sites worldwide.Design/methodology/approach: This paper collects data through interviews, observations and company documents from a large multinational producing company and, specifically, from of the largest production sites in the company. The research design resembles a grounded theory approach by being reflexive and open to emerging themes. The standardisation strategy was analysed at a company that strived to increase the standardisation of problem-solving practices within about 20 production sites as part of their corporate lean programme.Findings: Several managerial tools were applied at the corporate level to increase the standardisation level of problem-solving practices, such as developing standards and a company-specific toolbox aligned with an in-house maturity model. In addition, deploying change leaders and global implementation targets enabled audits and progress. However, consequences at the production-site level became minor adaptations of standards, the design of training models as a "roll-out", and a resource-demanding implementation process.Originality/Value: This paper empirically demonstrates strategic tools that corporate management teams apply to influence the company's standardisation level of practices. The study describes the purpose and consequences of the design of the toolbox, maturity model, training model, and implementation targets, which aims to simplify the complex task of managing standardisation in a corporate group. By applying a knowledge-based view, four processes (i.e. adaptation, integration, upskilling, and learning) were identified to improve the management strategies in multisite contexts.

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The issue of corporate mandatory standards in production improvement programmes

Linderson,

Eshetu Birkie,

Bellgran

2024

JIEM

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Relevant factors to implement continuous improvement in administrative services of public universities: an action research study

Marin-Garcia,

Garcia-Sabater,

Garcia-Sabater

et al. 2024

Production Planning & Control

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Automation of Post-Order Costing Analysis By Using Visual Basic For Applications In Microsoft Excel: A Case Study

Kalwar¹,

Khan

Wassan

et al. 2023

Work. pap. oper. manag.

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Microsoft Excel is used to carry out reporting tasks in small and medium companies across the globe. Most people make reports manually in Microsoft Excel and the manual work takes a tremendous amount of time. The manual work can be easily automated with some effort in Microsoft Excel. This research is about the automation of report that was used to be made manually in Microsoft Excel.The present research is an extension of the previously conducted research (Kalwar, Shahzad, et al., 2022). The manual process to make the post-order costing analysis report in MS excel requires a lot of user time (22.80 minutes, just if there is a single order of only one article with one color), with the greater possibility of human error. Employees in ananonymous footwear company in Lahore used to generate the post-order costing report manually in Excel.Due to the above-mentioned reasons, it was proposedto automate the report using visual basic for applications (VBA) in Microsoft Excel.The planning and costing departmentof the company provided every single step required to make the report manually. A time study was conducted for each stepof report preparation using the stopwatch. VBA macros were programmed for automating all manual report-related processes in excel andthe accuracy of the report was also verified. After the report was automated, the time study was again conducted to measure the execution time after each click. A comparison of both methods indicated that the report automation saved 83.18% of employees' time Additionally, the automated method resulted in an error-free report, and the employee`sworkload was reducedas well.

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Case report papers guidelines: Recommendations for the reporting of case studies or action research in Business Management

Cited by 3 publications

References 55 publications

The issue of corporate mandatory standards in production improvement programmes

The issue of corporate mandatory standards in production improvement programmes

Relevant factors to implement continuous improvement in administrative services of public universities: an action research study

Automation of Post-Order Costing Analysis By Using Visual Basic For Applications In Microsoft Excel: A Case Study

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