Mapping Manufacturing Concerns and Action Plans
International Journal of Operations & Production Management
ISSN: 0144-3577
Article publication date: 1 June 1988
Abstract
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 programmes that are related to each category. The concerns expressed by the 213 manufacturing executives are categorised and are shown to correspond fairly well with the strategic decision categories from the literature. The survey responses to questions about plans for programmes and activities to improve manufacturing over the next 2 years are also categorised. The relationships between planned programme categories and the strategic concerns that underlie them are explored and summarised.
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Citation
Ward, P.T., Miller, J.G. and Vollmann, T.E. (1988), "Mapping Manufacturing Concerns and Action Plans", International Journal of Operations & Production Management, Vol. 8 No. 6, pp. 5-18. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb054838
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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