Product variety and manufacturing performance: Evidence from the international automotive assembly plant study

Management Science

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 350-369

  MacDuffie, John Paul ^a   Sethuraman, Kannan ^a   Fisher, Marshall L ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Automotive Assembly; Flexible Production; Labor Productivity; Lean Production; Mass Production; Product Complexity; Product Variety

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001208675     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.42.3.350     Document Type: Article

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