Interplant coordination, supply chain integration, and operational performance of a plant in a manufacturing network: a mediation analysis

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A socio-technical view of performance impact of integrated quality and sustainability strategies

“…machinery, electronics, metal products, transport equipment and motor vehicles industrial sectors). As a result, 7167 companies from the different countries were selected (Cheng et al, 2016 in English, and later translated by national researchers using double-and reverse-translation procedures, in a coordinated manner for countries with similar languages (Vanpoucke et al, 2014).…”

“…In addition, this research used IMSS data from sixth iteration, ensuring that the IMSS research instruments have already been verified and known to researchers as demonstrated by numerous research publications (e.g. Gimenez et al, 2012;Golini et al, 2014;Chaudhuri and Boer, 2016;Cheng et al, 2016;Chaudhuri et al, 2018) using different versions of the IMSS survey. A common methodology was followed in each country to ensure uniformity in the data collection process.…”

“…The returned questionnaires were handled on a case-by-case basis for missing data usually by contacting the plant again. Every local research group also controlled the gathered data for late respondent bias, company size and industry (Cheng et al, 2016). Finally, checks for errors and outliers were conducted, and all the data were summarised into a unique database through central coordination by the Politecnico Di Milano (Cheng et al, 2016).…”

“…After excluding cases with much missing data, the final IMSS VI sample consisted of 931 companies from 22 countries in Europe, The Americas and Asia (see Table 1). The overall response rate was 36% (931/2586) (Cheng et al, 2016). (Boudreau et al, 2003), lean organization (e.g.…”

“…Close collaboration between academics and industry professionals in the development of the measurement items prior to data collection, literature support, executive interviews, and pilot tests ensured content validity (Cheng et al, 2016). After the data collection, multiple analyses were performed to ensure the reliability and validity of the constructs.…”