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Morgen Chateuka
Morgen
Chateuka
The effects of culture on manufacturing organisation in Zimbabwe
Loughborough University
2018
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Mechanical Engineering not elsewhere classified
2018-06-01 15:27:13
Thesis
https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/thesis/The_effects_of_culture_on_manufacturing_organisation_in_Zimbabwe/9537932
Less Industrialised Countries (LICs) are faced with globalisation of Manufacturing and
business organisations, a reorganisation that requires use of new manufacturing systems and
business organisation concepts like Agile corporation, Virtual organisation, Networks of
Business Structures, Holonic and Bionic manufacturing organisation, just to name a few, all
taking advantage of developments in electronic communication systems, computers and
transportation networks which have reduced the distance between the customer, supplier and
the manufacturer. LICs are likely to remain the candidates of further underdevelopment if
manufacturing and business organisations ignore these necessary changes.
It is therefore the aim and objective of this research to investigate the influence of culture on
manufacturing and business organisation and propose ways and procedures where possible for
the LICs to take advantage of these modem manufacturing systems and technologies, which
seem to offer their advantages at lower capital costs as compared to what AMTs used to offer. [Continues.]