High value manufacturing : capability, appropriation, and governance
Sminia, Harry and Ates, Aylin and Paton, Steve and Smith, Marisa (2019) High value manufacturing : capability, appropriation, and governance. European Management Journal, 37 (4). pp. 516-528. ISSN 0263-2373 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2018.11.004)
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Abstract
Manufacturing competitiveness is on many policy agendas, born out of a concern for firms in high-cost economies finding themselves outcompeted by low-cost rivals. Government policy makers and manufacturing firm strategists have put their faith in what we label as high value manufacturing (HVM). We see HVM as an incipient phenomenon currently in a situation of prescience, as something that is still “in-the-making,” with manufacturing firms trying to find ways to be able to step away from having to compete on price. This paper consults relevant strategy theories with the purpose to pinpoint the issues and problems that need to be accommodated for bringing HVM into being and for creating the effects that are anticipated. We found that HVM must be seen as a distributed activity, thus realizing complex functionality for a system-of-use, while being subjected to path constitution. For HVM to function, the firms involved need to find solutions to the capability problem, the appropriation problem, and the governance problem. We suggest that further research needs to involve itself in problem-solving activity to assist in bringing HVM about while simultaneously further developing strategy theory geared toward firms that are involved in a distributed activity like HVM.
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Sminia, Harry, Ates, Aylin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4072-5519, Paton, Steve ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7307-9333 and Smith, Marisa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1718-2122;-
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Item type: Article ID code: 66213 Dates: DateEvent31 August 2019Published17 November 2018Published Online16 November 2018AcceptedSubjects: Social Sciences > Industries. Land use. Labor > Management. Industrial Management Department: Strategic Research Themes > Advanced Manufacturing and Materials
Strategic Research Themes > Innovation Entrepreneurship
Strathclyde Business School > Management Science
Strathclyde Business School > Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship, Strategy and InnovationDepositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 26 Nov 2018 12:00 Last modified: 02 Oct 2024 00:32 Related URLs: URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/66213