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000088450 100__ $$0(orcid)0000-0001-6602-8901$$aMartinez-Sanchez, Angel$$uUniversidad de Zaragoza
000088450 245__ $$aAgile production, innovation and technological cooperation: Overlapping priorities of manufacturing firms
000088450 260__ $$c2019
000088450 5060_ $$aAccess copy available to the general public$$fUnrestricted
000088450 5203_ $$aPurpose
The purpose of this paper is to analyze in a sample of Spanish manufacturing firms the relationship between agile manufacturing and the firm’s management capacities related to innovation and production flexibility. Complementarily the survey addresses the implementation of agile production and its measurement.
Design/methodology/approach
For data collection, a survey through mail to operations and human resource managers of manufacturing firms and telephonic interviews with managers from 25 selective firms was carried out. The population of the study included firms from the Sistema de Análisis de Balances Ibéricos database with NACE codes 24–32 and at least 200 employees. Quantitative methods (linear hierarchical regression and mean differences) were used to test research hypotheses, and a qualitative method (interview analysis) was used to analyze an implementation and measurement model of agile production.
Findings
The results of the study show that high-agile firms use more intensively a comprehensive set of agile facilitators (design, manufacturing and supply). They also innovate and cooperate externally more on innovation than low-agile firms. The authors have found that external technological cooperation moderates the firm’s production flexibility.
Research limitations/implications
The implications of this research indicate, on one hand, that firms interested in implementing agile production should focus on the agility management of supply chains, the skills and knowledge development of human resources and in the implementation of agile manufacturing technologies. On the other hand, firms in less cooperative environments should focus more on their internal manufacturing systems to reinforce the relationship between production flexibility and agility that offers broader scenarios to compete under this production paradigm. The main limitations of the research design are the use of cross-sectional data and the use of managerial perceptions to assess most of the variables.
Originality/value
This paper offers a model of agile production implementation that it is complemented with measurement indicators to analyze the firm’s evolution toward agility. The combination of multivariate analysis and managers’ interviews to obtain and validate results creates a value for managers interested in agile production.
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000088450 593__ $$aManagement of Technology and Innovation$$c2019$$dQ2
000088450 593__ $$aStrategy and Management$$c2019$$dQ2
000088450 593__ $$aOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management$$c2019$$dQ2
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000088450 700__ $$0(orcid)0000-0003-3772-8591$$aPérez Pérez, Manuela$$uUniversidad de Zaragoza
000088450 700__ $$0(orcid)0000-0002-9958-9972$$aVicente-Oliva, Silvia
000088450 7102_ $$14012$$2650$$aUniversidad de Zaragoza$$bDpto. Direcc.Organiza.Empresas$$cÁrea Organización de Empresas
000088450 773__ $$g14, 4 (2019), 597-615$$pBALTIC JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT$$tBaltic Journal of Management$$x1746-5265
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