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Manufacturing Strategies in Selected European Countries

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Neostrategic Management

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Our contribution to the manufacturing strategy research is to identify the strategic manufacturing practices among manufacturers in selected EU countries and to identify differences, if any, among Croatia, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Poland, and Ukraine. The Global Manufacturing Research Group (GMRG) is an international community of researchers studying the improvement of manufacturing supply chains worldwide, and the data was a subsample from the Round V GMRG. The multi-focus cluster appeared to compete on all capabilities (but dominantly on quality, cost, and delivery and in that order) and may be supporting the cumulative model rather than the trade-off approach which competes on a single competitive priority. This puts additional pressure on manufacturing companies which have to provide exceptional quality and reliable delivery at the price that is not significantly higher. These findings suggest that the manufacturing strategy needs to be focused at country level rather than as a global perspective with a single dominant model.

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This work is done by aid of Croatian Science Foundation grant O-1861-2014—building competitiveness of Croatian manufacturing.

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    Jasna Prester, Najla Podrug & Darko Tipurić

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  3. Faculty of Economics, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia

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Prester, J., Podrug, N., Tipurić, D. (2016). Manufacturing Strategies in Selected European Countries. In: Vrdoljak Raguž, I., Podrug, N., Jelenc, L. (eds) Neostrategic Management. Contributions to Management Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18185-1_11

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