This study investigates the practice of manufacturing flexibility in small and medium sized firms. Using the data collected from 87 firms from machinery and machine tool industries in Taiwan, we analyzed and prescribed the alignment of various manufacturing flexibility dimensions with business strategies. Several practical approaches to developing manufacturing flexibility in small and medium s...

Elasticity of interfuel substitution between renewable and non-renewable energy is a key to establish effective climate change policy.This is the first study estimating the elasticity of substitution between different fossil fuels and renewable resources. We use twelve manufacturing industry level data for the OECD countries over 1995 to 2009. We find complementally relationship from non-renewa...

Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM) is one of the recent buzz world in the industrial enterprises in India for the enhancing the capabilities of their supply chain management through sustainability. Industries are more interested in profit making due to sustainable supply chain activities rather than to save environment. Thus in this research, we aim to study the various activities involved in...