Analysis of manufacturing strategy as an explanatory factor of competitiveness in the large Spanish industrial firm

Manufacturing strategy implementation and performance benchmarking in Indian packaging product manufacturing companies

“…In order to assess emphasis on key decision areas, authors operationalised the decisions/subsystem using the literature (Avella et al, 2001;Miltenburg, 2008;Dangayach and Deshmukh, 2006). This research explores the characteristics of manufacturing plants based on the analogy created to Hayes and Wheelwright's (1984) work on stages of manufacturing and methodology to group the plants based on manufacturing strategy implementation (Patil et al, 2012a).…”

“…The questions on manufacturing strategy implementation are developed to find prevalence of the factors and measured on five point Likert scale (1-not at all, 5-large extent). Questions related to manufacturing levers are adopted from (Avella et al, 2001;Miltenburg, 2008;Dangayach and Deshmukh, 2006). The questions on manufacturing levers are developed to find emphasis (or investment) in activities in the last three years and measured on five point Likert scale (1-not at all, 5-large extent).…”

“…The Cronbach's alpha is found to test the reliability of measure which varies from 0 to 1. The scale developed for measuring various constructs was adopted from previous research (Avella et al, 2001;Miltenburg, 2008). All the items used were from previous studies and did not represent new scales and provides content validity of the scale (Hair et al, 2010).…”

“…The plant is placing less emphasis on sourcing decision as this group is reluctant to involve suppliers in product design (SR1) and reflected in lower level of delivery time reliability (DV1) ). The less improvement in factory reconditioning reflected in hampering the ability of reducing the production cost (Avella et al, 2001). The implication of less emphasis on decision making in DFMA methods (PT1) result in reduction in lead time to introduce new products (IN1) and number of products introduced in the market in a year (IN2) (Swink et al, 2007) .…”

Determinants of firm competitiveness: case of the Turkish textile and apparel industry

“…Some of the insights were obtained from the past studies. For instance, Avella, Fernandez and Vazquez (2001) use firm performance measured by added value per employee as a metrics of firm competitiveness. Along the similar lines, Nachum (1998) and Alvarez, Marin and Fonfria (2009) suggest using market share as a proxy for competitiveness.…”