... the history of manufacturing companies in the USA during the last half of the nineteenth century, categorizes them, and ties them to theory. Findings The bundling of manufactured goods to downstream‐available services was led by companies with new products but with no great manufacturing strengths...

... that these strategies can be customised to the exigencies of the situation. Operations strategy History Classification In a recent review of operations management research, Filippini (1997) emphasised the need to promote empirical field‐based research. He concluded that the operations management...

.... © MCB UP Limited 1997 Agile production Flexible manufacturing systems History Mass Production Paradigms Introduction In industrial management, the 1980s marked the end of the twentieth century, an epoch dominated by American manufacturers, undisputed masters of the mass...