A review of empirical research on manufacturing flexibility

By Robert J. Vokurka, Scott W. O’Leary-Kelly. 2000

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Fit, Flexibility and Performance in Manufacturing: Coping with Dynamic Environments (2004, background): “Vokurka and O’Leary-Kelly (2000) proposed that ﬁrms that achieve an appropriate ﬁt be-tween a composite of strategy, organizational attributes, technology, and environmental factors, and manufacturing ﬂexibility would exhibit higher levels of performance.”
Key manufacturing capability elements and business performance (2002, background): “While Swenk and Hegarty (1998) suggest this may be an innovation measure, there is a substantial literature that includes new product leadtime as a ¯exibility dimension (Sethi and Sethi 1990, Gerwin 1993, Gupta and Somers 1996, Vokurka and O’Leary-Kelly 2000).”
The three dimensions of responsiveness (2005, background): “In their literature survey Vokurka and O'Leary-Kelly (2000)”
Drivers and Sources of Supply Flexibility: An Exploratory Study (2005, background): “Most of the existing studies on the Operations Management area focus on manufacturing flexibility (see for example, Koste and Malhotra, 1999; Vokurka and O’Leary-Kelly, 2000; Jack and Raturi, 2002; Koste et al., 2004).”