Manufacturing strategies of small technology-based firms in the UK oil industry

Crabtree, Elisabeth; Bower, D. Jane; Keogh, William

doi:10.1504/ijmtm.2000.001349

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“…This means that the surveyed organisations do not perceive customisation as a competitive tool that will enable them to outperform their rivals. This finding is ironic in that the UK oil and gas industry has been perceived as an industry that requires a high level of innovation, especially due to the need to produce from the deep offshore fields (Bower and Young, 1995;Crabtree et al, 1997Crabtree et al, , 2000Cumbers et al, 2003;Cumbers and MacKinnon, 2004;Mackinnon et al, 2004). Clearly, the findings from this research point to less incidence of customisation within the industry, to such an extent that the ability to deliver customised products is not perceived as a competitive advantage.…”

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A relational study of supply chain agility, competitiveness and business performance in the oil and gas industry

Yusuf¹,

Gunasekaran

Musa³

et al. 2014

International Journal of Production Economics

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This paper assesses the link between dimensions of agile supply chain, competitive objectives and business performance in the UK North Sea upstream oil and gas industry. A questionnaire was designed and administered covering important criteria of agility identified from the literature. The questionnaire was sent to a sample of 880 supply chain managers within the UK oil and gas industry and a net response rate of 17.8% was achieved. Statistical tests for validity and reliability were carried out. Also, the KS statistical test for normality was undertaken on the data. All the tests affirm that the data came from a normal distribution. Non-response bias analysis was conducted through wave analysis using one-way ANOVA and no statistically significant difference was revealed by the t-test result. By examining the whole supply chain associated with agile practices in an important sector, the paper identifies the most important dimensions and attributes of supply chain agility and provides a deeper insight into those characteristics of agility that are most relevant within the oil and gas industry.

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