A lack of workforce agility has been reported as one of the main reasons that some
enterprises have difficulty keeping pace with markets and technological changes. Shortage …

The issue of manufacturing flexibility (MF) is gaining growing importance in
production/operations management, mainly due to the changing nature of competition, and …

Academic and corporate interest on manufacturing flexibility has risen sharply in recent
years and a number of papers have been published in this area. This paper aims to explore …

Studies on agility in the workplace have focused excessively on technical factors, and little
attention has been given to the workforce. Most studies on workforce agility are conceptual …

The rapid changes in the manufacturing environment have become the greatest challenge
for a manufacturing unit. This leads to the demand for change from the traditional …

This research aims to investigate the impact of manufacturing flexibility on business
performance. The manufacturing flexibility dimensions are mix, new product, labor, machine …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to analyse and compare the status of manufacturing
flexibility adoption, its barriers and adoption practices in small and medium-sized …

Purpose This paper aims to empirically investigate the triadic relationship between internal
integration, internal flexibility and external flexibility. Design/methodology/approach This …

The present manufacturing environment is characterized by a number of changes which
poses challenges to a typical manufacturing unit. Time demands a shift from the traditional …

Growing global competition has virtually eliminated assured markets and has forced
manufacturers in nearly all sectors to find a new production model, one of which is known as …