Evolution of Manufacturing Systems: from Product Competitive Advantage towards Collaborative Value Creation
As the emerging requirements for business growth and technology development, the boundary of a manufacturing system has been extended from factory towards various types of network relationships. The missions of manufacturing system are also transformed and re-defined. This paper, based upon research work in different industrial sectors in the last ten years,introduces a manufacturing system evolutionary picture from which four main types of manufacturing systems can be identified and analysed in order to understand their characteristics of system and behind strategic drivers or intentions. The paper suggests that the classical manufacturing strategy theory should be adapted into a contingency strategy to respond the manufacturing evolutions and treat different systems interdependently. It also suggests a new conceptual framework for further research on new manufacturing evolution and contingency strategy.
Manufacturing System Evolution Network Behavior Globalisation
Yongjiang Shi
Cambridge University, The United Kingdom
国际会议
第六届管理学国际会议(Proceedings of ICM2007 the 6th International on Management)
武汉
英文
316-322
2007-08-03（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）