This article examines the current relationship between Swedish manufacturers and their suppliers. Emphasis is put on the demands placed on the suppliers by the manufacturers, on the internal suppliers′ activities causing this demand, and on the future plans and programmes pursued by the...

Asks how implementation management affects implementation uncertainty, adaptation cycles and performance. Assesses retrospective case studies of three Swedish FMS implementation processes. The cases represent technically similar systems, but with different project characteristics and degrees of...

Over the last twenty years, there has been an increasing number of factors that have placed the manufacturing strategies of companies and countries in a global context. This book reviews and addresses the global manufacturing strategy area through research in the four major economic areas of the...