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Manufacturing strategy: Defining the missing link
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The primary objective of strategy is to develop and support a lasting competitive advantage. In manufacturing industries, substantial focus has been given during the early eighties to the importance of the manufacturing function's contribution to overall corporate success, and yet the apparent lack of attention (historically) to achieving that potential contribution. In this article, characteristics of competitive advantage in manufacturing firms are described, a general framework for relating such advantage to corporate, business and functional levels of strategy is given, and an approach for pursuing that potential is outlined.
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- Authors
- Wheel Wright, S. C.
- Venue
- Strategic Management Journal
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 1984-01
- Volume
- 5
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 77-91
- ISSN
- 0143-2095 (ISSN-L)
- 1097-0266
- OpenAlex
- W2073765982
- Cited by
- 662
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 12.36
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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