A PATH ANALYTICAL ANALYSIS OF ORGANIZATIONAL INTEGRATION PRACTICES'EFFECTS ON MANUFACTURING FLEXIBILITY AND COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGF

作     者：Mei CAO Qingyu ZHANG 

作者机构：Department of Business and Economics University of Wisconsin - Superior Superior W154880 USA College of Business Arkansas State University State University AR 72467 USA 

出 版 物：《Journal of Systems Science and Systems Engineering》 (系统科学与系统工程学报（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2008年第17卷第3期

页      面：277-296页

核心收录：

学科分类：0810[工学-信息与通信工程] 1205[管理学-图书情报与档案管理] 080202[工学-机械电子工程] 08[工学] 0802[工学-机械工程] 0811[工学-控制科学与工程] 0812[工学-计算机科学与技术（可授工学、理学学位）] 

主　　题：Organizational integration practice flexibility competitive advantage survey research structural equation modeling 

摘      要：To cope with an increasingly turbulent environment, manufacturing firms increasingly implement integration practices to enhance flexibility in the production process. This research develops a framework to explore the relationships among organizational integration practices, manufacturing flexibility, and competitive advantage. The study develops valid and reliable instruments to measure these constructs, and it applies structural equation modeling to test relationships among these variables using a large sample. The results indicate strong, positive, and direct relationships between organizational integration practices and manufacturing flexibility, and between manufacturing flexibility and competitive advantage. The results also indicate that organizational integration practices enhance competitive advantage directly as well as indirectly by facilitating manufacturing flexibility.