(Sept. 3) – Researcher Pamela Danese and Research Fellow Thomas Bortolotti, from the University of Padova, won the “Jose AD Machuca Best Paper Award”, at the fourth edition of the international conference “P & OM World Conference “, held in July in Amsterdam. This conference is part of “Operations Management”, a mayor event of in the field, held every four years by Euroma (European Operations Management Association), Poms (Production and Operations Management Society) and Jomsa ( Japanese Operations Management and Strategy Association). The award-winning article, written in collaboration with Pietro Romano from the University of Udine and Barbara B. Flynn from Indiana University, is titled “Cumulative Capabilities and Lean: A Test of the Sand Cone Model” and represents an important contribution to the topic of Lean Manufacturing and the maximization of the company’s operational performance by the obvious practical implications. (red)
