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  1. B. C. Arntzen, G. G. Brown, T. P. Harrison, and L. L.Trafton, "Global Supply Chain Management at Digital Equipment Corporation," Interfaces 25 (1995), pp. 69 - 93.

  2. D. A. Garvin, "What Does Product Quality Really Mean," Sloan Management Review 26 (Fall 1984), pp. 25 - 44.

  3. For general background information, see "How to Build Quality," The Economist, September 23, 1989, pp. 91 - 92; A. Gabor, The Man Who Discovered Quality New York: Penguin, 1990); and P. B. Crosby, Quality is Free (New York: Mentor, 1980).

  4. M. Saunders, "US Firms Doing Business in Europe Have Options in Registering for ISO 9000 Quality Standards," Business America, June 14, 1993, p. 7.

  5. G. Stalk and T. M. Hout, Competing Against Time (New York: Free Press, 1990).

  6. M. A. Cohen and H. L. Lee," Resource Deployment Analysis of Global Manufacturing and Distribution Networks," Journal of Manufacturing and Operations Management 2 (1989), pp. 81 - 104.

  7. For a review of the technical arguments, see D. A. Hay and D. J. Morris, Industrial Economics: Theory and Evidence (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979). See also C. W. L. Hill and G. R. Jones, Strategic Management: An Integrated Approach (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1995).

  8. See P. Nemetz and L. Fry, "Flexible Manufacturing Organizations: Implications for Strategy Formulation," Academy of Management Review 13 (1988), pp. 627 - 38; N. Greenwood, Implementing Flexible Manufacturing Systems (New York: Halstead Press, 1986); and J. P. Womack, D. T. Jones, and D. Roos, The Machine That Changed the World (New York: Rawson Associates, 1990).

  9. J. H. Gilmore and B. J. Pine II, "The Four Faces of Mass Customization," Harvard Business Review, January - February 1997, pp. 91 - 101.

  10. Womack, Jones, and Roos, The Machine That Changed the World.

  11. M. A. Cusumano, The Japanese Automobile Industry (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1989); T. Ohno, Toyota Production System Cambridge, MA: Productivity Press, 1990); and Womack, Jones, and Roos, The Machine That Changed the World.

  12. J. D. Goldhar and D. Lei, "The Shape of Twenty-First Century Global Manufacturing," Journal of Business Strategy, March - April 1991, pp. 37 - 41; "Factories that Turn Nuts into Bolts," U.S. News and World Report, July 14, 1986, pp. 44 - 45; and J. Kotkin, "The Great American Revival, Inc., February 1988, pp. 52 - 63.

  13. K. Ferdows, "Making the Most of Foreign Factories," Harvard Business Review, March - April 1997, pp. 73 - 88.

  14. This argument represents a simple extension of the dynamic capabilities research stream in the strategic management literature. See D. J. Teece, G. Pisano, and A. Shuen, "Dynamic Capabilities and Strategic Management," Strategic Management Journal, 18 (1997), pp. 509 - 33.

  15. The material in this section is based primarily on the transaction cost literature of vertical integration; for example, O. E. Williamson, The Economic Institutions of Capitalism (New York: The Free Press, 1985).

  16. For a review of the evidence, see Williamson, The Economic Institutions of Capitalism.
  1. A. D. Chandler, The Visible Hand (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1977).

  2. For a review of these arguments, see C. W. L. Hill and R. E. Hoskisson, "Strategy and Structure in the Multiproduct Firm," Academy of Management Review 12 (1987), pp. 331 - 41.

  3. C. W. L. Hill, "Cooperation, Opportunism, and the Invisible Hand," Academy of Management Review 15 (1990), pp. 500 - 13.

  4. See R. Narasimhan and J. R. Carter, "Organization, Communication and Coordination of International Sourcing," International Marketing Review 7 (1990),

    pp. 6 - 20, and Arntzen, Brown, Harrison, and Trafton, "Global Supply Chain Management at Digital Equipment Corporation."

  5. H. F. Busch, "Integrated Materials Management," IJPD & MM 18 (1990), pp. 28 - 39.

  6. J. G. Miller and P. Gilmour, "Materials Managers: Who Needs Them?" Harvard Business Review, July - August 1979, pp. 57 - 67.

  7. R. Narasimhan and J. R. Carter, "Organization,
    Communication and Coordination of International Sourcing."
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