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Building a boundaryless manufacturing organisation through HITOP method
thesis
posted on 2018-07-20, 10:56 authored by Yiyang ZhangThere is little empirical research to support the allegation that ‘leagile’
manufacturing organisations thrive in hostile environments, nor has it been
demonstrated that organisation processes (referred to as enablers) actually
support ‘leagile’ performance. This study tests the statistical significance of five
selected HITOP (highly integrated technology, organisation and people) ‘leagile’
enablers. This was accomplished by using a mail survey instrument to measure
the presence of ‘leagile enablers’ in a sample of companies taken from best
factory award winners in UK, US and Japan. [Continues.]
History
School
- Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Publisher
© Yiyang ZhangPublisher statement
This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Publication date
2005Notes
A Master's Thesis. Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of Master of Philosophy at Loughborough University.Language
- en