Full Description
This book honors the contributions and career of Cipriano Forza, Professor of Management Engineering at the University of Padova, Italy. He is a Member of the Scientific Committee of Academic Journal Guide (ABS), an Associate Editor of the Decision Sciences Journal and a former Associate Editor of the Journal of Operations Management, where he curated a special issue on "Coordinating Product Design, Process Design, and Supply Chain Design Decisions". As one of the world's foremost researchers in the area of mass customization and operations management, Prof. Forza published more than 200 scientific articles with over 10,000 citations on Google Scholar. For his groundbreaking work, he received several awards, including the Dr. Theo Williamson Award for Excellence (1997), best paper awards by Production Planning and Control (2005) and the Journal of Operations Management (2006), the Harry Boer Highly Commended Award (2016), and the EurOMA Fellowship Awards (2021).
Leading researchers and practitioners that have been working with the honoree contributed a broad range of findings from conceptual and empirical research about mass customization and personalization to this book. The individual chapters take a customer centric view on the challenges and opportunities of product and service customization from an operations management, information technology, entrepreneurship, marketing, and organizational perspective. The authors explore key ideas, current developments as well as future research directions.
Contents
1: Form Postponement Types and Market Contingencies: Toward an Isomorphism of Mass-Customization Strategies and Form Postponement Types.- 2: The Ghost in the Machine: A Multi-Method Exploration of the Role of Individuals in the Simultaneous Pursuit of Flexibility and Efficiency.- 3: The Role of SKU Management in Product Variety Reduction Projects.- 4: Internationalization of Production in SMEs: Organizational Challenges and Strategic Opportunities.- 5.- Integrating Mass Customization and Environmental Management: An Organizational-Capability Perspective.- 6: Creating Customization Experiences: The Evolution of Product Configurators.- 7: Customized Digital Marketing Communications.- 8: Online Shopping Preferences in Mass Customization: A Comparison Between 2008 and 2021.- 9: Enhancing Digital Social Interaction While Shopping via Online Sales Configurators.- 10: Racial Similarity Effects in Advertising. A Deep Dive in Mass Customization Industries.- 11: Case Study: Leitner Ropeways -Customization is part of our standards.- 12: Retrospective of the MCP-CE conferences in the period of 2004-2020.
