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Description of  Organizational Models for Industry 4.0: Lean, Agile and Service-Oriented Organizations (Contributions to Management Science)

This book draws on a neo-institutional theory to characterize service-oriented manufacturing firms in relation to more familiar organizational forms, such as lean and agile. It sheds light on whether being lean is a prerequisite for agile organizations and whether agile organizations are precursors of service-oriented organizations. The book empirically examines the prevalence of such organizations using representative samples of manufacturing firms in an industrialized country. This approach makes it possible to zoom in and determine whether the extent of adoption of digital manufacturing innovations, digital services, and service-oriented business models varies with organizations size, industry, product complexity, lot size, type of design process, and type of manufacturing process. Read more