## Abstract The innovation and organizational theory literatures argue that implementing radical innovation can be facilitated or hindered by the organizationโs structural design. As firms attempt to cope with an external environment that is changing from industrial to postโindustrial, how do they
The impact of market requirements focus and manufacturing characteristics focus on plant performance
โ Scribed by Cecil Bozarth; Steve Edwards
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 129 KB
- Volume
- 15
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0272-6963
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โฆ Synopsis
This study examines the relationship between market requirements focus, manufacturing characteristics focus, and manufacturing performance. Results from a sample of plants serving the automotive industry support the general argument that market requirements focus and manufacturing characteristics focus have an impact on manufacturing performance, and ลฝ . provide partial support for a mediation model of focus proposed by Bozarth 1993 . The results also show that focused work cells or plants-within-a-plant might not be entirely successful at buffering plants from the negative impact of diverse market requirements. q 1997 Elsevier Science B.V.
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