We study production networks of automotive assembly plants to shed new light on the impact of flexibility on plant …, Ford and General Motors) have become less flexible over the years despite the reported benefits of flexibility. To … understand this phenomenon, we utilize flexibility indices that have been developed in the modeling literature to measure …

network flexibility of the firm as antecedents of a firm’s supply chain agility (FSCA), also incorporating the moderating role … FSCA can be enhanced through the transactive memory system and supply network flexibility, although a higher degree of … transactive memory system weakens the positive relationship between supply network flexibility and FSCA. A positive relationship …

assesses the flexibility of SCN in context of I4.0. The assessment is based on a framework of metrics embedded in the Supply …