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Cipriano Forza

Cipriano Forza

D-Index & Metrics

Business and Management

D-Index
44
Citations
11235
World Ranking
1338
National Ranking
28

Overview

Cipriano Forza is affiliated with the University of Padua in Italy and has a research focus primarily in the fields of Business, Management and Accounting and Engineering. Their work spans several subfields including Management of Technology and Innovation, Mechanical Engineering, Marketing, Information Systems, and Management Information Systems.

Their research contributions prominently address topics related to Product Development and Customization, Design Education and Practice, and Service and Product Innovation. Additional themes in their work cover Software Engineering Techniques and Practices, Quality and Supply Management, Manufacturing Process and Optimization, and Color Perception and Design.

Forza's recent papers include the following:

  • Scrum versus Rational Unified Process in facing the main challenges of product configuration systems development (2020) published in Journal of Systems and Software
  • Development of mass customization implementation guidelines for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) (2021) published in Production Planning & Control
  • Competing through manufacturing: countering a product's liability of foreignness through mass customization (2020) published in International Journal of Operations & Production Management
  • Identifying variety-induced complexity cost factors in manufacturing companies and their impact on product profitability (2021) published in Journal of Manufacturing Systems
  • Framing business cases for the success of product configuration system projects (2022) published in Computers in Industry

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Cipriano Forza include Lars Hvam, Enrico Sandrin, Sara Shafiee, Nikola Suzić, and Anders Haug.

Their publications appear repeatedly in several academic venues such as:

  • Journal of Systems and Software
  • Production Planning & Control
  • Journal of Manufacturing Systems
  • International Journal of Operations & Production Management
  • Computers in Industry

Best Publications

  • Survey research in operations management: a process‐based perspective

    Cipriano Forza

  • TQM impact on quality conformance and customer satisfaction: A causal model

    Cipriano Forza;Roberto Filippini

  • Modularity, product variety, production volume, and component sourcing: theorizing beyond generic prescriptions

    F Salvador;C Forza;M Rungtusanatham

  • Supply‐chain linkages and operational performance: A resource‐based‐view perspective

    M. Rungtusanatham;F. Salvador;C. Forza;Thomas Choi

  • Work organization in lean production and traditional plants

    Cipriano Forza

  • A framework for analysing business performance, firm innovation and related contextual factors: perceptions of managers and policy makers in two European regions

    Andy Neely;Roberto Filippini;Cipriano Forza;Andrea Vinelli

  • Managing for variety in the order acquisition and fulfilment process: The contribution of product configuration systems

    Cipriano Forza;Fabrizio Salvador

  • Rapid internationalization of traditional SMEs: Between gradualist models and born globals

    Igor Kalinic;Cipriano Forza

  • A replication study of a theory of quality management underlying the Deming management method: insights from an Italian context

    Manus Rungtusanatham;Cipriano Forza;Roberto Filippini;John C Anderson

  • ‘Expect the unexpected’: Implications of effectual logic on the internationalization process

    Igor Kalinic;Saras D. Sarasvathy;Cipriano Forza

  • Survey research in operations management: historical analyses

    M.Johnny Rungtusanatham;Thomas Y Choi;David G Hollingworth;Zhaohui Wu

  • Configuring products to address the customization-responsiveness squeeze: A survey of management issues and opportunities

    F. Salvador;C. Forza

  • TQM across multiple countries: Convergence Hypothesis versus National Specificity arguments

    M. Rungtusanatham;C. Forza;B.R. Koka;F. Salvador

  • Supply-chain configurations for mass customization

    F. Salvador;F. Salvador;M. Rungtusanatham;M. Rungtusanatham;C. Forza;C. Forza

  • Product Information Management for Mass Customization: Connecting Customer, Front-office and Back-office for Fast and Efficient Customization

    F. Salvador;C. Forza

  • Supply chain interactions and time‐related performances: An operations management perspective

    Fabrizio Salvador;Cipriano Forza;Manus Rungtusanatham;Thomas Y. Choi

  • Product configuration and inter-firm co-ordination: an innovative solution from a small manufacturing enterprise

    C. Forza;F. Salvador

  • Product configurator impact on product quality

    Alessio Trentin;Elisa Perin;Cipriano Forza

  • Assessing some distinctive dimensions of performance feedback information in high performing plants

    Cipriano Forza;Fabrizio Salvador

  • Application support to product variety management

    C. Forza;F. Salvador

Frequent Co-Authors

Manus Rungtusanatham
Manus Rungtusanatham University of Cincinnati
Andrea Vinelli
Andrea Vinelli University of Padua
Alexander Felfernig
Alexander Felfernig Graz University of Technology
Thomas Y. Choi
Thomas Y. Choi Arizona State University
Pietro Romano
Pietro Romano University of Udine
Andy Neely
Andy Neely University of Cambridge
Saras D. Sarasvathy
Saras D. Sarasvathy University of Virginia

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