Management studies suggest that developing and sustaining dynamic and operational capabilities is important in achieving competitive advantage. The process of developing capabilities is an underdeveloped research area and new insight is needed to understand how capabilities can be developed as...

Purpose – This paper seeks to investigate whether linkages, proposed by previous researchers, among business strategies and structural and infrastructural investment decisions of manufacturing are empirically supported. Design/methodology/approach – A sample of 101 US manufacturing firms is...

The operating definition of manufacturing strategy in published research has often been too restrictive to accommodate the entire gamut of approaches used in practice. In particular, the manufacturing strategies of world class manufacturers do not fit the prevalent planning orientation suggested...

The manufacturing strategy literature suggests a number of areas in which decisions are of strategic importance. This study uses a survey of manufacturing executives from 213 business units in the United States to explore empirically the concept of strategic decision categories and improvement...