Manufacturing and Technological Strategy

Skinner, Wickham

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“…Largely due to this attitude, manufacturing has become a reactive, short-term participant in the organizations' crucial plans. Booz Allen and Hamilton (1982), Skinner (1978), Lubar and Roman0 (1983) concur with this an a! 1981), Wheelwright (1981b), ysis and agree on a solution: incorporate manufacturing into the firm's strategic direction.…”

Section: A Strategic View Of Operationsmentioning

confidence: 74%

“…Manufacturing strategies define the choice of process technology, degree of vertical integration, the number and location of facilities, factory focus and the manufacturing infrastructure." Skinner (1978) defines manufacturing strategy by what he calls the manufacturing task, an explicit concept of what manufacturing must accomplish.…”

Section: Operations Strategy Definedmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Some differences here appear semantic, some represent real alternative emphases and directions for the field. Primary task (Skinner (1978)) and mission (Booz Allen and Hamilton (1982), Schroeder, Anderson, and Cleveland (1986)) are examples of semantic differences.…”

Section: Operations Strategy Definedmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Within the last decade, managing manufacturing in mature industries has become a strategic problem. Skinner (1980) points out that "the pressures on profit mar ins and for full-capacity utilization, with a typically unionized work orce and old equipment, make for a f frantic scene. "…”

Section: Work Force and Organizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Operations strategy: A literature review

Anderson

Cleveland

Schroeder

1989

J of Ops Management

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Competitive pressures on American business have created the need for improved understanding and practice of operations strategy. Over the past 20 years some 80 articles and several books have been written on the subject. These writings, while diverse in nature and placement, serve to shape what we know about operations strategy and the opportunities for improved practice and meaningful research. This paper examines an underlying argument that exists within the literature that proper strategic positioning or aligning of operations capabilities can significantly impact competitive strength and business performance of an organization. The discussion is organized around four related premises: (1) that there exists a strategic, as opposed to a tactical, view of operations, (2) that there must be some synergistic process of integrating business and operations strategic issues, (3) that there are operations decision or policy areas which demonstrate strategic opportunities, and (4) that conceptual structures exist by which to target and focus operations strategy. The paper concludes that the literature and emerging research support each of these premises to varying degrees. The authors believe that further understanding of these premises could be benefited by more careful and consistent definition of operations strategy concepts and terminology, by more attention being placed on the content and process of operations strategy, by more empirical study, and finally by more emphasis being placed on service operations strategy.

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Section: A Strategic View Of Operationsmentioning

confidence: 74%

Section: Operations Strategy Definedmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Operations Strategy Definedmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Work Force and Organizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Operations strategy: A literature review

Anderson

Cleveland

Schroeder

1989

J of Ops Management

303

185

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“…Tesis DocToral "esTraTegia De proDucción para pymes colombianas Del secTor De la comunicación gráfica" La decisión del tipo de proceso que debe seleccionar una empresa para llevar a cabo la transformación de sus productos depende fundamentalmente del tipo de producto que se va a fabricar, la esencia del proceso es inherente al producto, pero la organización del mismo depende de múltiples factores: la prioridad competitiva de la empresa, la relación con el cliente, la organización de la empresa, pero estas decisiones acerca del proceso obligan a la empresa a utilizar cierto tipo de tecnología, equipo, instalaciones y un tipo determinado de fuerza laboral (Skinner, 1980), de cierta forma todo el sistema productivo depende y se organiza alrededor del proceso.…”

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Estrategia de producción para pymes colombianas del sector de la comunicación gráfica

Ayala¹

2011

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How to deal with customer and supplier concentration to attain sustainable financial growth? The role of business strategy

Ahsan

Mirza²,

Gull

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Bus Strat Env

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For effective supply chain management, firms should focus on the relationship with their immediate stakeholders in the supply chain, namely, suppliers (upstream) and customers (downstream). This study investigates the impact of customer and supplier concentration as well as business strategy on sustainable financial growth, using financial data of 2021 Chinese non‐financial firms listed from 2006 to 2020. Additionally, it explores the moderating effect of business strategy on the relationship between customer and supplier concentration and sustainable financial growth. We find that higher customer and supplier concentration weakens the bargaining power of Chinese firms, which reduces their financial growth. However, an appropriate business strategy can help such firms achieve sustainable financial growth. We find that an aggressive business strategy moderates the negative impact of supplier concentration, while a defensive business strategy moderates the negative impact of customer concentration on financial growth. Finally, our results for the direct impact of customer and supplier concentration as well as business strategy hold for state‐owned and non‐state‐owned firms. However, we find differences regarding the moderating impact of business strategy between state‐owned and non‐state‐owned firms. Our results are robust to time and industry fixed effects, alternate proxies of financial growth and regression techniques.

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Manufacturing and Technological Strategy

Cited by 59 publications

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Operations strategy: A literature review

Operations strategy: A literature review

Estrategia de producción para pymes colombianas del sector de la comunicación gráfica

How to deal with customer and supplier concentration to attain sustainable financial growth? The role of business strategy

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