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International Patterns in Manufacturing Strategies

Ruth Alas, Tomas Eklund, Mikael Collan, Ants Kraus, International Patterns in Manufacturing Strategies. In: C. Ordonez de Pablos, M Lytras (Eds.), The China Information Technology Handbook, Springer, 2009.

Abstract:

This paper explores and analyses patterns in international manufacturing strate-gies, based on data from the Fourth International Manufacturing Strategy Survey (IMSS), conducted in 2005. Based on a principal components analysis a selection of the thirty-one most important contributing variables from the IMSS dataset is made, and a self-organizing map (SOM) is used to cluster manufacturing compa-nies according to their strategy, performance, manufacturing and supply-chain practices, and improvement programs. The clusters of companies and patterns of strategies are analyzed and discussed. Special attention is attached to differences between countries. The results reveal four groups (types) of companies: low supply-chain integration companies; integrated supply-chain companies; mass production, high tech companies; and production-oriented low tech companies.

BibTeX entry:

@INBOOK{cAlEkCoKr09a,
  title = {International Patterns in Manufacturing Strategies},
  booktitle = {The China Information Technology Handbook},
  author = {Alas, Ruth and Eklund, Tomas and Collan, Mikael and Kraus, Ants},
  editor = {Ordonez de Pablos, C. and Lytras, M},
  publisher = {Springer},
  year = {2009},
}

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