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33
Citations
6491
World Ranking
2446
National Ranking
386

Overview

Martin Spring is affiliated with Lancaster University in the United Kingdom and specializes in the field of Business, Management and Accounting. Their work spans several subfields, including Management Information Systems, Strategy and Management, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, and Economics and Econometrics.

Their research primarily addresses topics related to Outsourcing and Supply Chain Management, Innovation and Knowledge Management, Quality and Supply Management, Public Procurement and Policy, Management and Organizational Studies, Public-Private Partnership Projects, and Robotic Process Automation Applications.

Martin Spring has contributed to a variety of academic publications. Notable recent papers include:

  • How information technology automates and augments processes: Insights from Artificial-Intelligence-based systems in professional service operations, 2022, Journal of Operations Management
  • How Professionals Adapt to Artificial Intelligence: The Role of Intertwined Boundary Work, 2023, Journal of Management Studies
  • "The map is not the territory": a boundary objects perspective on supply chain mapping, 2020, International Journal of Operations & Production Management
  • Fostering SME supplier-enabled innovation in the supply chain: The role of innovation policy, 2021, Journal of Supply Chain Management
  • Facilitating public procurement of innovation in the UK defence and health sectors: Innovation intermediaries as institutional entrepreneurs, 2022, Research Policy

Frequently publishing in several academic journals, Martin Spring's work appears particularly in the Journal of Operations Management and the Journal of Supply Chain Management, each with two publications, as well as in the Journal of Management Studies, Research Policy, and the International Journal of Operations & Production Management.

Collaborations have played a role in Martin Spring's research output, with frequent co-authors including Kostas Selviaridis, James Faulconbridge, Atif Sarwar, Alan Hughes, and Kim Sundtoft Hald. Kostas Selviaridis, for example, has co-authored five publications with Spring.

Best Publications

  • Flexibility from a supply chain perspective: definition and review

    Mark Stevenson;Martin Spring

  • Third party logistics : a literature review and research agenda

    Konstantinos Selviaridis;Martin Spring

  • The sites and practices of business models

    Katy Mason;Martin Spring

  • Service, services and products: rethinking operations strategy

    Martin Spring;Luis Araujo

  • Services, products, and the institutional structure of production

    Luis Araujo;Martin Spring

  • Product customisation and manufacturing strategy

    Martin Spring;John F. Dalrymple

  • Service triads: A research agenda for buyer–supplier–customer triads in business services

    Finn Wynstra;Martin Spring;Tobias Schoenherr

  • Product biographies in servitization and the circular economy

    Martin Spring;Luis Araujo

  • Customer Roles in Service Supply Chains and Opportunities for Innovation

    Scott E. Sampson;Martin Spring

  • Beyond the service factory: Service innovation in manufacturing supply networks

    Martin Spring;Luis Araujo

  • Supply chain flexibility: an inter‐firm empirical study

    Mark Stevenson;Martin Spring

  • How information technology automates and augments processes: Insights from Artificial‐Intelligence‐based systems in professional service operations

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  • Creating the competitive edge:a new relationship between operations management and industrial policy

    Martin Spring;Alan Hughes;Katy Mason;Paul McCaffrey

  • Small and Medium Enterprise Research in Supply Chain Management: The Case for Single-Respondent Research Designs

    Thomas J. Kull;Josip Kotlar;Martin Spring

  • Are knowledge-intensive business services really co-produced?:overcoming lack of customer participation in KIBS

    Juliana Bonomi Santos;Juliana Bonomi Santos;Martin Spring

  • New product design and development: a generic model

    A.J. Peters;E.M. Rooney;J.H. Rogerson;R.E. McQuater

  • “One more time: how do you win orders?”: a critical reappraisal of the Hill manufacturing strategy framework

    Martin Spring;Ruth Boaden

  • System dynamics modelling for supply-chain management: a case study on a supermarket chain in the UK

    Y. Ge;J.-B. Yang;N. Proudlove;M. Spring

  • The dynamics of business service exchanges:insights from logistics outsourcing

    Kostas Selviaridis;Martin Spring

  • The use of quality tools and techniques in product introduction: an assessment methodology

    M Spring;RE McQuater;KG Swift;BG Dale

  • JIT purchasing in the Spanish auto components industry – Implementation patterns and perceived benefits

    Javier González‐Benito;Martin Spring

Frequent Co-Authors

Luis Araujo
Luis Araujo University of Manchester
Mark Stevenson
Mark Stevenson University of Melbourne
Monideepa Tarafdar
Monideepa Tarafdar University of Massachusetts Amherst
Irene C. L. Ng
Irene C. L. Ng University of Warwick
Javier González-Benito
Javier González-Benito Carlos III University of Madrid
Miia Martinsuo
Miia Martinsuo University of Turku
Ruth Boaden
Ruth Boaden University of Manchester
Mick Marchington
Mick Marchington University of Manchester
Jian-Bo Yang
Jian-Bo Yang University of Manchester
Geraint Johnes
Geraint Johnes Lancaster University

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