Flexibility of manufacturing systems,strategic change and performance |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Management, University of Granada, Campus de Cartuja s/n, Granada 18071, Spain;2. Department of Management, Miguel Hernández University, Spain;1. Empresa Pública de Emergencias Sanitarias, Almería, Andalucía, Spain;2. Sistema Emergencies Mediques, Catalunya, Spain;3. Hospital Virgen del Rocío, Sevilla, Andalucía, Spain;4. Fundación Pública Urxencias Sanitarias 061, Galicia, Spain;5. SUMMA112, Madrid, Spain;6. Servicio de urgencias extrahospitalarias de Navarra, Navarra, Spain;7. SAMU, Emergencias Sanitarias, Comunidad Valenciana, Spain;8. SAMU 061 Baleares, Islas Baleares, Spain;9. Servicio de Urgencias y Emergencias 061, La Rioja, Spain;10. Emergentziak-Emergencias, Osakidetza, Euzkadi, Spain;11. Emergencias Sanitarias, Castilla y León, Spain;12. Servicio de Emergencias 061 Cantabria, Cantabria, Spain;13. Servicio de Urgencias Canario, Islas Canarias, Spain;14. SAMU-Asturias, Asturias, Spain;15. 061 e Instituto de Ciencias de la Salud, Aragón, Spain;p. Emergencias sanitarias de Extremadura, Extremadura, Spain;q. SAMUR Protección Civil, Madrid, Spain;r. Servicio de Bomberos de Zaragoza, Aragón, Spain;s. Servicio de Urgencias y Emergencias, Castilla La Mancha, Spain;t. Servicio de Emergencias 061, Murcia, Spain;u. Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos, Hospital Río Carrión, Palencia, Spain;v. Empresa Pública de Emergencias Sanitarias, Andalucía, Spain;w. Hospital el Toyo, Almería, Spain;1. State Key Laboratory of Automobile Materials, Jilin University, Changchun 130025, Jilin, China;2. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Jilin University, Changchun 130025, Jilin, China |
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| Abstract: | The past decade has witnessed an increase of interest in flexibility, which bestows on a firm the ability to respond promptly to market opportunities and changing technologies. The development of capabilities to be flexible rests on the mandate of top management, helps firms manage environmental uncertainty, and tends to enhance firm performance. This research paper aims to establish an analytical approximation that considers how the determinants of manufacturing flexibility at the system level affect the desired strategic change in organizations, as well as subsequent performance. We propose the hypotheses that both environmental factors and internal resources affect flexibility, this latter aspect influencing the organization's performance. The problems that stem from measuring manufacturing flexibility in terms of fit were also analyzed. In order to do this, we have made a wide-ranging trans-national study, within the framework of the European Union, using data from 403 European firms. The Structural Equation Model (SEM) technique has been used to contrast the hypotheses. The results show that manufacturing flexibility at system level can be a critical factor in the process of strategic change, which means that it can have an impact on the desirability of strategic change or on the more specific strategic fit. |
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