Strategy Deployment in Business Units: Patterns of Operations Strategy Cascading Across Global Sites in a Manufacturing Firm (Contributions to Management Science)

"This book reveals and presents the root-causes that lead to varying improvement performances across different locations of a global positioned manufacturing organization. Conducting a multiple case study analysis of manufacturing sites around the world, the author found that the quality of the strategy deployment process is vital, especially when it is clear to all affected employees--a situation we refer to as strategy cascading. But having a sound strategy cascading alone is not enough. The author worked out that a company, which achieves to align its sound strategy cascading with the company context and leadership style of its top-management team, is likely to realize more operations improvements than do companies that missed to do so." -- Library of Congress Front Matter....Pages i-xx Introduction....Pages 1-5 Review of the Literature on Strategy Cascading, Context, and Leadership....Pages 7-44 Research Design and Data Collection....Pages 45-62 The Relevance of Organizational Context to Strategy Cascading....Pages 63-95 The Effect of Leadership Style on Strategy Cascading....Pages 97-113 Assessment of Strategy Cascading Quality and Improvement Performance....Pages 115-147 Results on Strategy Cascading, Context, and Leadership Style....Pages 149-167 Theoretical and Managerial Implications....Pages 169-172 Back Matter....Pages 173-187