Mass Customization and Customer Centricity (eBook, PDF)

In Honor of the Contributions of Cipriano Forza
Redaktion: Aichner, Thomas; Salvador, Fabrizio

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book honors the contributions and remarkable 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. As one of the world's foremost researchers in the area of mass customization and operations management, Professor 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.

Thomas Aichner is an Associate Professor of Marketing who held academic positions at leading Universities and Business Schools in Austria, Germany, Italy, and Saudi Arabia. He received a joint Ph.D. in Management Engineering from the University of Padova (Vicenza, Italy) and a Dr. rer. pol. in Business Administration from ESCP Business School (Berlin, Germany), with the special mention of Doctor Europaeus. His research is focused on country of origin, mass customization, digital management, and disability/inclusion.

Fabrizio Salvador is Professor of Operations Management and Vice-Rector for Applied Researchat IE University (Madrid, Spain). Dr. Salvador holds a Ph.D. in Operations Management and MS in Industrial Engineering from the University of Padova (Vicenza, Italy). He has been visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Faculty Research Associate at Arizona State University. His award-winning research is published in various top journals, where he has also held multiple editorial leadership positions. He has received the prestigious Thinkers50 Radar award as a leading management scholar.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer International Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 349
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783031097829
• Artikelnr.: 68478452

Autorenporträt

Thomas Aichner is an Associate Professor of Marketing who held academic positions at leading Universities and Business Schools in Austria, Germany, Italy, and Saudi Arabia. He received a joint Ph.D. in Management Engineering from the University of Padova (Vicenza, Italy) and a Dr. rer. pol. in Business Administration from ESCP Business School (Berlin, Germany), with the special mention of Doctor Europaeus. His research is focused on country of origin, mass customization, digital management, and disability/inclusion. Fabrizio Salvador is Professor of Operations Management and Vice-Rector for Applied Research at IE University (Madrid, Spain). Dr. Salvador holds a Ph.D. in Operations Management and MS in Industrial Engineering from the University of Padova (Vicenza, Italy). He has been visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Faculty Research Associate at Arizona State University. His award-winning research is published in various top journals, where he has also held multiple editorial leadership positions. He has received the prestigious Thinkers50 Radar award as a leading management scholar.

Inhaltsangabe

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.