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This chapter explores and analyses patterns in international manufacturing strategies, based on data from the Fourth International Manufacturing Strategy Survey (IMSS), conducted in 2005. Based on a principal components analysis a selection of the thirty-one most important contributing variables from the IMSS dataset is made, and a self-organizing map (SOM) is used to cluster manufacturing companies according to their strategy, performance, manufacturing and supply-chain practices, and improvement programs. The clusters of companies and patterns of strategies are analyzed and discussed. Special attention is attached to differences between countries. The results reveal four groups (types) of companies: low supply-chain integration companies; integrated supply-chain companies; mass production, high tech companies; and production-oriented low tech companies.
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The authors would like to acknowledge the financial support of the Academy of Finland (Domino, grant no. 104639).
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Alas, R., Eklund, T., Collan, M., Kraus, A. (2009). International Patterns in Manufacturing Strategies . In: Ordóñez de Pablos, P., Lytras, M. (eds) The China Information Technology Handbook. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-77743-6_4
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