Product Variety and Manufacturing Performance: Evidence from the International Automotive Assembly Plant Study

DOI10.1287/mnsc.42.3.350zbMath0884.90097OpenAlexW2122501614MaRDI QIDQ4363572

John Paul MacDuffie, Kannan Sethuraman, Marshall L. Fisher

Publication date: 15 December 1997

Published in: Management Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.42.3.350

zbMATH Keywords

product qualityproduct varietymass productionlean productionflexible productionmanufacturing performanceautomotive assembly

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Production models (90B30)

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