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The Impact of Network Relational Characteristics on Emerging Small Manufacturing Organizations' Development and Linkages

网络关系特征对新兴小型制造组织发展和联系的影响

基本信息

批准号：
1660570
负责人：
Nancy Miller
金额：
$ 37.04万
依托单位：
Colorado State University
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Continuing Grant
财政年份：
2017
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2017-04-15 至 2022-03-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1660570&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Impact Network Relational Characteristics Emerging

项目摘要

To advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare, this study focuses on the interactions and organizational development among emerging small manufacturing businesses to understand how they develop partnership in order to optimize operational and strategic capabilities to enhance their competitiveness. The investigation focuses on the evolution of innovative U.S. supply chain linkages among six emerging small manufacturing centers developing in rural Colorado communities. Aspects of apparel manufacturing are returning to the U.S. due to the increase in production prices and risks associated with international suppliers. This research aims to identify ways for small manufacturing businesses to effectively form networks and clusters to gain competitiveness in the market. Findings will have implications for multiple regions of the U.S. interested in cultivating collaborations among small-to-large manufacturing firms. The proposals aims to: 1) capture, at multiple levels of analysis, the phenomena involving organizational development of small manufacturers, regional clusters, and a formal network, 2) empirically test overlapping concepts from social capital, network, and innovation theories, and 3) establish a framework to explain how networking develops among emerging small firms. The scope this project involves the mixed-method study of how six emerging small manufacturing centers organize into two clusters, and then a single network. By focusing on cooperating ventures in which emerging organizations are embedded, the project will discover to what degree network relational characteristics provide a competitive advantage through knowledge creation, learning, and innovation adoption. Data collection involving observations, interviews, focus groups, and survey methods will provide further insights as to the impact of these characteristics on startup firms. The unit of analyses will include the center, cluster, network, and manufacturing levels. Qualitative and quantitative analyses will be conducted to understand the focal research question of how clusters and networks develop among small manufacturing organizations, and the implications of the clusters and the networks on their market competitiveness.

为了促进国家的健康，繁荣和福利，本研究的重点是新兴的小型制造企业之间的相互作用和组织发展，以了解他们如何发展伙伴关系，以优化运营和战略能力，以提高他们的竞争力。调查的重点是创新的美国供应链之间的发展联系的六个新兴的小型制造中心在农村科罗拉多社区。由于生产价格的上涨和与国际供应商相关的风险，服装制造业正在回归美国。本研究的目的是为小型制造企业有效地形成网络和集群，以获得市场竞争力的方法。研究结果将对美国多个地区有兴趣培养小型到大型制造企业之间的合作产生影响。这些建议旨在：1）从多个层面分析小型制造商、区域集群和正式网络的组织发展现象; 2）实证检验社会资本、网络和创新理论的重叠概念; 3）建立一个框架来解释新兴小型企业之间的网络化发展。该项目的范围涉及六个新兴的小型制造中心如何组织成两个集群，然后一个单一的网络混合方法的研究。通过专注于新兴组织所嵌入的合作企业，该项目将发现网络关系特征在多大程度上通过知识创造、学习和创新采用提供竞争优势。数据收集包括观察，访谈，焦点小组和调查方法将提供进一步的见解，这些特点对创业公司的影响。分析单元将包括中心、集群、网络和制造级别。通过定性和定量分析，了解小型制造业组织如何形成集群和网络，以及集群和网络对其市场竞争力的影响这一焦点研究问题。