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Plant Focus

Plant Focus is a manufacturing strategy construct that designates a dedicated, specialized mission within a production facility to achieve superior performance in a specific product, process, or market segment by concentrating resources, capabilities, and operational objectives around a clearly defined competitive priority.

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528

Citations

23

Authors

17

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

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Variants

Focused Factory

Parents

Publications

12

The impact of market requirements focus and manufacturing characteristics focus on plant performance

Cecil Bozarth, S. T. Edwards · Journal of Operations Management · 1997 · 101 citations

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Multiplant manufacturing strategies among the fortune 500

Roger W. Schmenner · Journal of Operations Management · 1982 · 87 citations

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Strategy, uncertainty and the focused factory in international process manufacturing

Mikko Ketokivi, Mikko Jokinen · Journal of Operations Management · 2005 · 87 citations · Full text

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Impact of Plant Size and Focus on Productivity: An Empirical Study

Thomas H. Brush, Aneel Karnani · Management Science · 1996 · 64 citations

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Performance measurement and the focused factory: empirical evidence

C.C. New, Marek Szwejczewski · International Journal of Operations & Production Management · 1995 · 49 citations

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Authors

23

  1. CB
    Cecil Bozarth

    North Carolina State University, United States

    2 publications · 111 citations

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  2. ST
    S. T. Edwards

    North Carolina State University, United States

    1 publications · 101 citations

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  3. MK
    Mikko Ketokivi

    IE University, Spain

    1 publications · 87 citations

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  4. WS
    Wickham Skinner

    INSEAD, France

    1 publications · 21 citations

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  5. AK
    Aneel Karnani

    University of Michigan, United States

    1 publications · 64 citations

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Institutions

17

  1. St. Cloud State University

    Saint Cloud, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    46 citations

  2. Washington University in St. Louis

    St Louis, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    15 citations

  3. University of Michigan

    Ann Arbor, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    64 citations

  4. Lund University

    Lund, Sweden

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    32 citations

  5. Purdue University West Lafayette

    West Lafayette, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    64 citations

  6. Southwestern University of Finance and Economics

    Chengdu, China

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    15 citations

  7. Duke University

    Durham, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    87 citations

  8. North Carolina State University

    Raleigh, United States

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    202 citations

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Venues

  1. Production and Operations Management

    POMS · 3 publications · 82 citations

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  2. Journal of Operations Management

    3 publications · 275 citations

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  4. Production Planning & Control

    1 publications · 16 citations

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  5. Annals of Operations Research

    1 publications · 10 citations

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