Agile manufacturing: Relation to JIT, operational performance and firm performance

abstract

• A structural model incorporating agile manufacturing as the focal construct is theorized and tested. The model includes the primary components of JIT (JIT-purchasing and JIT-production) as antecedents and operational performance and firm performance as consequences to agile manufacturing. Using data collected from production and operations managers working for large U.S. manufacturers, the model is assessed following a structural equation modeling methodology. The results indicate that JIT-purchasing has a direct positive relationship with agile manufacturing while the positive relationship between JIT-production and agile manufacturing is mediated by JIT-purchasing. The results also indicate that agile manufacturing has a direct positive relationship with the operational performance of the firm, that the operational performance of the firm has a direct positive relationship with the marketing performance of the firm, and that the positive relationship between the operational performance of the firm and the financial performance of the firm is mediated by the marketing performance of the firm. 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

authors

• Whitten, G.

published proceedings

• JOURNAL OF OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT

altmetric score

• 17

author list (cited authors)

• Inman, R. A., Sale, R. S., Green, K., & Whitten, D.

citation count

• 288

complete list of authors

• Inman, R Anthony||Sale, R Samuel||Green, Kenneth W Jr||Whitten, Dwayne

publication date

• May 2011

publisher

• Wiley  Publisher

published in

• Journal of Operations Management  Journal

keywords

• Agile Manufacturing
• Jit Systems
• Organizational Performance
• Structural Equation Modeling

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1016/j.jom.2010.06.001

start page

• 343

end page

• 355

volume

• 29

issue

• 4

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jom.2010.06.001