Fit, Flexibility and Performance in Manufacturing: Coping with Dynamic Environments

By Gopesh Anand, Peter T. Ward. 2004

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Subfields: Management Information Systems, Strategy and Management

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The cumulative capability ‘sand cone’ model revisited: a new perspective for manufacturing strategy (2011, background): “We assess flexibility as volume flexibility, mix flexibility and new product introduction speed (Anand and Ward 2004).”
Operational Slack and Venture Survival (2013, background): “Despite the venture’s inherent liabilities of newness and smallness, by maintaining a consistent and rapid pace of production, ventures can maintain business continuity and increase their chance of survival (Esteve-Perez andManez-Castillejo 2008, Jovanovic 1982).”
An Investigation of Visibility and Flexibility as Complements to Supply Chain Analytics: An Organizational Information Processing Theory Perspective (2018, methodology): “In addition, ﬂexible organizations typically have more cross-trained workers, more general purpose equipment, and more modular organizational structures (Anand and Ward 2004, Gerwin 1993, Pag-ell and Krause 1999, Sawhney 2006, Sethi and Sethi 1990, Upton 1994).”
The Relationship between Competitive Strategy and Firm Performance in Micro and Small Businesses in Ghana: The Moderating Role of Managerial and Marketing Capabilities (2015, methodology): “The use of the constructs in previous studies provides evidence of the validity of the scales (Anand & Ward 2004).”
Manufacturing strategy, competitive strategy and firm performance: An empirical study in a developing economy environment (2008, methodology): “various constructs and their use in several past research studies provide evidence of the validity of the scales (Anand and Ward, 2004; Swink et al., 2005).”
Generic strategies and firm performance in SMEs: a longitudinal study of Austrian SMEs (2010, background): “Thus, a combination strategy allows firms to maintain greater agility and flexibility in offering products that focus either more on costs or on a specific product feature (e.g., Anand and Ward 2004; Parnell and Hershey 2005).”
Resilience in family and nonfamily firms: an examination of the relationships between manufacturing strategy, competitive strategy and firm performance (2011, neutral): “The use of the constructs in several past research studies provides evidence of the validity of the scales (Anand and Ward 2004, Swink et al. 2005).”
Operations Strategy Research in the POMS Journal (2005, background): “For other articles in the POMS set, more of an emphasis is placed on theories related to strategic ﬁt (e.g., Anand and Ward 2004; Gupta and Lonial 1998; Gupta and Somers 1996; Pesch and Schroeder 1996; Skinner 1996a, 1996b).”