In leading manufacturing companies, many improvement ideas and productivity enhancements originate bottom-up. Employee-initiated improvements give a competitive advantage to firms that mobilize this resource, so knowledge of what triggers such behavior is valuable. We examine the antecedents of...

This study examines the operational (improvement) benefits of strategy cascading — as well as the effects of leadership style — as embedded in the organizational context of portfolio complexity. We use multiple comparative case studies (based on nine manufacturing sites of a global...

This paper investigates the industrial practices of production offshoring and reshoring — in particular, the role of strategy and natural hedging (i.e., co-locating sales and production activities). After analyzing the recent production sourcing decisions of 74 leading global manufacturing...

1. Introduction -- 2. Antecedents of Behavior Supporting Bottom-up Operations Strategy Formation -- 3. Helping Colleagues, Improving Operations Quality, or Just Doing One's Job? - An Empirical Examination of Employee Behavior -- 4. Basic Human Needs and Organizational Justice Explain Job...

This book showcases examples of excellent manufacturing companies who have succeeded in creating value and job growth in Western Europe. The examples show managers of industrial firms how a clearly articulated strategic position can be combined with excellent execution to achieve competitiveness...

Die Herausforderung -- Managementqualität und strategische Positionierung -- Managementqualität, Innovation und Dienstleistungen -- Rational: Innovation und revolutionäre Produkte -- Imaje: Durch Innovation von Produkten zu Dienstleistungen -- BuS: „Wir machen, was sonst niemand macht“ --...