Musaphir, Hamza with Ostap Hawaleshka, "Understanding Strategy of a Manufacturing Based Learning Organization in Transition in the Twenty-First Century", 1995
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Manufacturing strategy offers a means for integrating operations management decisions and linking them with the firm's business strategy to attain a competitive position. The goal of this paper is to develop a model using System Thinking which can be utilized to better understand what constitutes manufacturing strategy, and why certain decision choices better mesh and lead to a superior competitive position. The model focuses on understanding linkages among operation management decisions which will include the decision areas of process, materials management, quality, workforce management, and maintenance.