Abstract Der vorliegende Beitrag geht auf der Grundlage einer repräsentativen Erhebung der Frage nach, wie breit und kohärent Dezentralisierungsmaßnahmen in der deutschen Investitionsgüterindustrie umgesetzt wurden. Dabei wird zwischen operativer und strategischer Dezentralisierung...

Abstract Nachdem die Diskussionen um das Konzept der Gruppenarbeit in den zurückliegenden 30 Jahren in Deutschland mehrfach zwischen großen Hoffnungen und anschließender Desillusionierung oszillierten, scheint es mittlerweile an der Zeit, auf der Basis einer breiten quantitativen Empirie eine...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present an empirical investigation of firm level productivity effects of outsourcing against the background of a review of recent theoretical considerations about the topic. Design/methodology/approach – The empirical research is based on a large...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose a process‐modelling method that is based on methods from both operations management (OM) and service operations management (SOM), which complies with the special requirements of servitised manufacturers. Design/methodology/approach – After...

Purpose – This paper aims to map the incidence of teamwork in European manufacturing industries and describe the process of teamwork diffusion over time. The impact of country, company size, manufacturing sector and other factors on teamwork diffusion is identified. Design/methodology/approach...

Purpose – Case study findings increasingly indicate that the implementation of service‐based business concepts is becoming a global business trend. The purpose of this paper is to analyze a broad European survey to understand the extent to which service infusion has already deeply affected...

Manufacturing firms increasingly produce and provide services along with or instead of their traditional physical products. The goal of this paper is to provide new evidence for this servitisation of European manufacturing and test previous findings based on case studies with a large, firm-level...

It is a general understanding that the advanced economies are currently undergoing a fundamental transformation into knowledge-based societies. There is a firm belief that this is based on the development of high-tech industries. Correspondingly, in this scenario low-tech sectors appear to be...

Summary Manufacturing industries are increasingly applying alternative business concepts, transforming traditional buyer-supplier relationships into new exchange models of deliveries and payments. In scientific debates on this phenomenon, however, there exist neither consistent terms nor...