Mechanism Design of Fashion Virtual Enterprise under Monitoring Strategy

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Sustainable Industrial Engineering along Product-Service Life Cycle/Supply Chain

Sustainable industrial engineering addresses the sustainability issue from economic, environmental, and social points of view. Its application fields are the whole value chain and lifecycle of products/services, from the development to the end-of-life stages. This book aims to address many of the challenges faced by industrial organizations and supply chains to become more sustainable through reinventing their processes and practices, by continuously incorporating sustainability guidelines and practices in their decisions, such as circular economy, collaboration with suppliers and customers, using information technologies and systems, tracking their products’ life-cycle, using optimization methods to reduce resource use, and to apply new management paradigms to help mitigate many of the wastes that exist across organizations and supply chains. This book will be of interest to the fast-growing body of academics studying and researching sustainability, as well as to industry managers involved in sustainability management

Digitally enabling the construction virtual enterprise

The construction industry is highly fragmented, consisting of a large number of very small companies that come together as members of non-collocated teams to complete building projects, and who subsequently may never work together again. The industry still faces various challenges in terms of human and organisational issues. The Virtual Enterprise (VE), and other variations of the paradigm, relies on networking organisations as elements forming an alliance or aggregation towards some specific purpose or opportunity. Rather than the VE being a completely new organisational form, the construction industry has adopted many of its characteristics in its modus operandi for some considerable time. The construction industry does not operate effectively as a VE and in consequence faces many problems. These problems could be addressed by the development of ICT solutions geared towards digitally enabling the VE. The success of collaborative work, and the successful design and uptake of such ICT tools to support that work relies not merely on the introduction of different technologies, however, but also on critically analysing `human' aspects of organisation. Using applied research and drawing on a central case study in which a VE solution was developed, tested and evaluated in the context of `real world' scenarios, the thesis addresses the socio-organisational aspects of technological intervention and seeks to answer four research questions dealing with the above. The main results include recognition that whilst ICT are advanced enough to offer adapted solutions to digitally enabling the construction VE, the technology alone is not sufficient. The construction industry is not yet ready to move to an approach employing latest ICT development, due to the need to manage human and organisational issues central to technological intervention. The thesis finally offers business recommendations highlighting and mapping the critical human and organisational decisions that need to be considered.EThOS - Electronic Theses Online ServiceGBUnited Kingdo

Digitally enabling the construction virtual enterprise

The construction industry is highly fragmented, consisting of a large numberof very small companies that come together as members of non-collocated teams tocomplete building projects, and who subsequently may never work together again.The industry still faces various challenges in terms of human and organisationalissues. The Virtual Enterprise (VE), and other variations of the paradigm, relies onnetworking organisations as elements forming an alliance or aggregation towardssome specific purpose or opportunity. Rather than the VE being a completely neworganisational form, the construction industry has adopted many of its characteristicsin its modus operandi for some considerable time. The construction industry does notoperate effectively as a VE and in consequence faces many problems. These problemscould be addressed by the development of ICT solutions geared towards digitallyenabling the VE.The success of collaborative work, and the successful design and uptake ofsuch ICT tools to support that work relies not merely on the introduction of differenttechnologies, however, but also on critically analysing `human' aspects oforganisation. Using applied research and drawing on a central case study in which aVE solution was developed, tested and evaluated in the context of `real world'scenarios, the thesis addresses the socio-organisational aspects of technologicalintervention and seeks to answer four research questions dealing with the above. Themain results include recognition that whilst ICT are advanced enough to offer adaptedsolutions to digitally enabling the construction VE, the technology alone is notsufficient. The construction industry is not yet ready to move to an approachemploying latest ICT development, due to the need to manage human andorganisational issues central to technological intervention. The thesis finally offersbusiness recommendations highlighting and mapping the critical human andorganisational decisions that need to be considered