number and intensity of manufacturing practices in use and the performance of a firm. The conclusion is an unsettling: “the … more the better.” This paper uses the Global Manufacturing Research Group’s (GMRG) second round database to deepen our …

The number of studies relating to best practice in manufacturing has been increasing at a rapid rate over the last few … years. As companies strive to attain world‐class manufacturing status the search for best practice has intensified. Focus …

The paper argues that the widespread changes in manufacturing industry are best conceptualised as paradigmatic, in that … they constitute a patterned reconfiguration of ideas, beliefs and values about manufacturing philosophy, strategy … reflect a new institutional form of manufacturing organisation. In investigating teamworking, the paper uses the concept of …

Most of previous research on manufacturing flexibility has been conceptual by nature and finalized to build analytical … frontier of manufacturing flexibility practice. Data were obtained via a questionnaire survey that considered seven basic … dimensions of manufacturing flexibility. Subsequently, discriminant analysis was carried out to delineate which contextual …

government economic policy. This paper uses data from the International Manufacturing Strategy Survey (1996‐98) to examine how … these similarities and differences may have impacted on the manufacturing strategies adopted by firms in the two regions … of these approaches. In particular, European manufacturers introduced a number of manufacturing technologies earlier and …

whether manufacturing units pursuing dissimilar strategies are led by manufacturing managers with dissimilar attributes, and … whether the strategy‐manager alignment is related to the performance of the manufacturing unit. Results provide evidence to …

where the whole manufacturing system modelled as a function of total system cost (TSC) is used for this application. This … study deals with minimising the TSC of a multi‐stage, multi‐facility and multi‐product manufacturing system in which the …

The paper considers the implementation of a virtual manufacturing system as an alternative to outward technology … that has developed a virtual manufacturing system in addition to its pre‐existing outward technology licensing business … stream. A summary account of the company history and development is followed by description of the virtual manufacturing …

Major decisions in manufacturing have often been treated as a management task. Investments and changes in manufacturing … the decision‐making processes. The final decision, when investments are made in manufacturing, is either the result of … decisions. To ensure that the decisions made are strategically connected, manufacturing strategies and goals have to be broken …