Agility in Indian manufacturing industries: an empirical investigation. (1st March 2012)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Saleeshya, P.G.; Subash Babu, A.; Vishnu, A.S.
• Is Part Of: International journal of Indian culture and business management. Volume 5:Number 2(2012)
• Page Start: 208
• Page End: 232
• Publication Date: 2012-03-01
• Subjects: agile manufacturing -- AHP -- analytical hierarchy process -- most significant -- least significant; Management -- India -- Periodicals; Management; India; Periodicals; 658.0095405
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1753-0806

Abstract

This paper reports the salient details of a study carried out with the objectives of identifying what makes an organisation agile, identifying various enablers of agility by field study, developing a modelling framework for assessing agility and assessing agility in Indian manufacturing industries. For this purpose, data were collected from Indian manufacturing industries with the help of a questionnaire. The method of analytic hierarchy process was used to analyse and identify which among these factors are likely to have greater impact on realising an agile organisation. This study revealed a number of interesting observations, which are reported in this paper.