{"title":"Creating a virtual enterprise in manufacturing to manage the risk in discontinuous innovation","authors":"C. McDermott","doi":"10.1109/IEMC.1996.547843","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The paper examines the extent to which elements of the manufacturing function are outsourced in discontinuous innovation. Preliminary observations indicate that a large portion of early manufacturing tasks are performed externally to reduce risk. Firms whose core lies in fabrication and assembly appear to perform more manufacturing tasks externally than do firm's whose core is in materials processing.","PeriodicalId":138196,"journal":{"name":"IEMC 96 Proceedings. International Conference on Engineering and Technology Management. Managing Virtual Enterprises: A Convergence of Communications, Computing, and Energy Technologies","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1996-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"4","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"IEMC 96 Proceedings. International Conference on Engineering and Technology Management. Managing Virtual Enterprises: A Convergence of Communications, Computing, and Energy Technologies","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMC.1996.547843","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The paper examines the extent to which elements of the manufacturing function are outsourced in discontinuous innovation. Preliminary observations indicate that a large portion of early manufacturing tasks are performed externally to reduce risk. Firms whose core lies in fabrication and assembly appear to perform more manufacturing tasks externally than do firm's whose core is in materials processing.