... Strategic management Technological innovation Networks Capabilities Resource management Despite the considerable contribution the manufacturing sector has made to China’s GDP growth (Vaidya et al., 2007 ; Xia and Walker, 2015), the low added value it creates has gradually emerged...

... concludes with the theoretical and practical implications of the results. Servitization Leadership Strategic management Japanese manufacturers Intense global competition and complex business environments are altering the business landscape for firms in the manufacturing industry...

... operations and IPR. Additive manufacturing Strategic management Service operations Spare parts Patent law Digital businesses Spare parts play an important role in most manufacturing businesses, accounting for up to 45 percent of total gross profit and approximately 24 percent of revenue...

... method to develop a decision-making model aimed at supporting the preliminary design of a supply chain network. Therefore, the drawbacks of a pure qualitative conceptual model and optimization model are eliminated. Decision making Strategic management Supply chain management Supply networks...

... Strategic management Standardization Automotive industry There is a strong differentiation in manufacturing companies between a “product” business and a “systems” business. A product business delivers a standard product as a single item that can be sold as‐is or with a set of pre‐defined possible...

... Strategic management Knowledge transfer An effect recognition matrix (Koh and Saad, 2003) is used to collate the level of contribution to give an indication on the effect of particular underlying causes of supply chain uncertainty. Figure 1 shows a snapshot of the effect recognition matrix...

... the test of turbulent environment and times (Lee et al., 2000). © MCB UP Limited 2002 Strategic management Literature China Business administration Management theory Faced with an increasingly competitive and fast‐changing world market, sustainable competitive advantages...

... of the outsourcing pie. In this paper, we extend the Hayes‐Wheelwright framework for strategic manufacturing management to the strategic management of third party logistics service providers. A Singapore‐based case example is provided within this context to illustrate the relevance of the Hayes‐Wheelwright framework...