Trade-Offs? What Trade-Offs? Competence and Competitiveness in Manufacturing Strategy

California Management Review

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 1993, Pages 107-122

  Corbett, Charles ^a   van Wassenhove, Luk ^a  

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EID: 3543069272     PISSN: 00081256     EISSN: 21628564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/41166757     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. The article by W. Skinner [“Manufacturing—Missing Link in Corporate Strategy,” Harvard Business Review (May/June 1969), pp. 136–145] can be said to have started the field.
2. W. Skinner, “Missing the Links in Manufacturing Strategy,” in C.A. Voss, ed., Manufacturing Strategy: Process and Content (London: Chapman & Hall, 1992), pp. 13–25.
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6. See for example R.H. Hayes, S.C. Wheelwright and K.B. Clark, Dynamic Manufacturing (New York, NY: The Free Press, 1988).
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9. J.D. Blackburn, ed., Time-Based Competition: The Next Battleground in American Manufacturing (Homewood, IL: Irwin, 1991).
10. H.T. Johnson and R.S. Kaplan, Relevance Lost: The Rise and Fall of Management Accounting (Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1987).
11. See D.A. Garvin, “Competing on the Eight Dimensions of Quality,” Harvard Business Review (November/December 1987), pp. 101–109.
12. P. Kotler and G. Armstrong, Principles of Marketing (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice- Hall, 1991).
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14. M.E. Porter, Competitive Strategy (New York, NY: The Free Press, 1980).
15. W. Skinner, “The Productivity Paradox,” Harvard Business Review (July/August 1986), pp. 55–59.
16. K. Ferdows and A. De Meyer, “Lasting Improvements in Manufacturing Performance: In Search of a New Theory,” Journal of Operations Management, 9/2 (April 1990): 168–184.
17. Skinner [(1986) “Missing the Links in Manufacturing Strategy,” in C.A. Voss, ed., Manufacturing Strategy: Process and Content].
18. Skinner [(1992) “Missing the Links in Manufacturing Strategy,” in C.A. Voss, ed., Manufacturing Strategy: Process and Content].
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21. R.D. Buzzell and B.T. Gale, The P1MS Principles: Linking Strategy to Performance (New York, NY: The Free Press, 1987), Ch. 6.
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25. Buzzell and Gale, The P1MS Principles: Linking Strategy to Performance (New York, NY: The Free Press, 1987), pp. 117–118.
26. Most clearly found in Edmondson and Wheelwright, “Outstanding Manufacturing in the Coming Decade,” California Management Review (Summer 1989), p. 75
27. Hayes, Wheelwright, and Clark, Dynamic Manufacturing (New York, NY: The Free Press, 1988), pp. 375–376.
28. Buzzell and Gale, The P1MS Principles: Linking Strategy to Performance (New York, NY: The Free Press, 1987), pp. 204–205.
29. R. Jaikumar, “Postindustrial Manufacturing,” Harvard Business Review (November/December 1986), pp. 69–76
30. R.H. Hayes and S.C. Wheelwright, “Link Manufacturing Process and Product Life Cycles,” Harvard Business Review (January/February 1979), pp. 133–140.
31. R.H. Hayes and S.C. Wheelwright, Restoring Our Competitive Edge: Competing Through Manufacturing (New York, NY: John Wiley, 1984).
32. Buzzell and Gale, The P1MS Principles: Linking Strategy to Performance (New York, NY: The Free Press, 1987), p. 206.