The strategic regeneration of manufacturing by changing routines
International Journal of Operations & Production Management
ISSN: 0144-3577
Article publication date: 1 February 1998
Abstract
Uses theory and empirical data to develop further the understanding of the strategic regeneration of manufacturing companies. Reviews literature relevant to the areas of management and manufacturing strategy and organisational learning, identifying the importance of taking “resource based” views of strategy as a point of departure for aiding understanding of the process of manufacturing regeneration. Argues that regeneration can be understood from a change management perspective as a redefinition of tacit and explicit organisational routines. Reports the further development of earlier work and uses one exemplar case to describe and help begin understanding the complex process of strategic regeneration using an ecological, perceptual/cognitive, and structural analytical framework. Finally, draws some tentative conclusions on the nature and process of strategic regeneration and regenerative strategy, and notes the value and potential of taking a perspective based on the notion of “organisational routines” in attempting to understand this complex phenomenon.
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Citation
Tranfield, D. and Smith, S. (1998), "The strategic regeneration of manufacturing by changing routines", International Journal of Operations & Production Management, Vol. 18 No. 2, pp. 114-129. https://doi.org/10.1108/01443579810193267
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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