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Beyond World-Class : The New Manufacturing Strategy
Gary P. Pisano,Robert H. Hayes +1 more
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Research Note: How Valuable are Organizational Capabilities?
TL;DR: This paper observes that there are limits to the extent of the importance of organizational capabilities, and suggests that there can be an infinite regress in the explanation for, and prediction of, sustainable competitive advantage.
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Leagility: Integrating the lean and agile manufacturing paradigms in the total supply chain
TL;DR: The use of either lean thinking or agile manufacturing has to be combined with a total supply chain strategy particularly considering market knowledge and positioning of the decoupling point as agile manufacturing is best suited to satisfying a fluctuating demand and lean manufacturing requires a level schedule.
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Success factors in strategic supplier alliances: The buying company perspective
TL;DR: In this article, the authors established a definition of strategic supplier alliances, based on a comparison of both theoretical and managerial descriptions, and assessed the magnitude of the effect of these factors on partnership success, including trust and coordination, interdependence, information quality and participation, information sharing, joint problem solving, avoiding the use of severe conflict resolution tactics, and the existence of a formal supplier/commodity alliance selection process.
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Contingency research in operations management practices
Rui Sousa,Christopher A. Voss +1 more
TL;DR: In order to increase the understanding of patterns of use of operations management practices, OM scholars need to study in more depth the process of selection of OM best practices by organizations, and put forward a framework to underpin such research integrating contingency theory and other theoretical perspectives.
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Knowledge, Integration, and the Locus of Learning: An Empirical Analysis of Process Development
TL;DR: There is no one best way to learn, but that different approaches may be required in different knowledge environments, as well as suggesting that where underlying scientific knowledge is sufficiently strong, effective learning may take place outside the final use environment in laboratories.