assets, manufacturing costs, gross margin). In addition, the effect of six broad industry types on the proposed relationships … was also investigated. Overall industries, raw materials/work‐in‐progress, capacity utilization, manufacturing costs …

called “new wave manufacturing” in order to embrace the entirety of the development of these concepts. Assesses key …

There is a need for a unified theory of the strategic management of manufacturing. Current theory encourages the … strategic management of manufacturing by seeking to match the use of production resources with the need to satisfy the order … winning criteria of the target markets. Such an approach suggests but one strategic role of manufacturing. The purpose of this …