This thesis aims to analyze the relationship between procedural elaboration in new manufacturing technology implementation and implementation performance.
Reviewing and intergrating the relevant literature, general procedure of new manufacturing technology implementation is established and research hypotheses are generated. The data are collectd from 45 companies through interviews and questionnaire.
The procedural elboration in new manufacturing technology implementation is measured by the degree to which various procedures are prepared and fulfilled in detail in new manufacturing technology implementation. The correlation between procedural elaboration in new manufacturing technology implementation and implementation performance is analyzed under each organizational situation. In addition to correlation analysis, multiple regression analysis is used to test the hypotheses.
The results of hypotheses testing are as follows:
Correlation coefficient between procedural elaboration in new manufacturing technology implementation and implementation performance is 0.3374, which implies that two variables are very strongly correlated (p=0.05).
Moreover, the relationship between two variables is influenced by of supplier support, new manufacturing technology implementation experience and project size. In other words, when supplier support and new manufacturing technology implementation experience are weak, and when project size is low, procedural elboration in new manufacturing technology implementation is more important influencing factor on implementation performance.
Further research with larger sample size and more elaborated research meth)methodology will needed to improve the results of this study.
