The Effect Of Plant Management Capability On Plant Performance Based On Manufacturing Enterprises

An effective plant management is an important premise to guarantee production order,highlight the benefit of plant investment and improve manufacturing performance for manufacturing enterprises.However,in practice,plant management in China relies too much on technology and management mode of developed countries.Restricted by organizational routines,resources tenacity and the difficult environment of transformation and upgrade manufacturing industry faces,the effectiveness of plant management is not as expected.In theoretical,few studies focus on the perspectives of plant management and plant performance that belong to the research of enterprise level.Based on the comprehensive theories of resource-based view and capability-based view and plant management,this dissertation focused on the research field of manufacturing enterprise plant management,following the logic analysis about"capability?performance",trying to identify and explore the endogenous capabilities of plant management from the theories of resource-based view and capability-based view,developing theoretical model of "plant management capability?plant performance",and deeply discussing the following three logically related research questions step by step:First,how to identify the factors that can influence the capability of plant management?Second,is there any path dependence among factors that can influence plant management capability?Third,how plant management capability effects plant performance?This dissertation adopted the combining methods of normative analysis and empirical analysis,and through examining 352 effective responses from four regions of Daqing,Harbin,Xiamen and Foshan,three creative conclusions are as follows:first,plant management capability is mainly composed of plant management strategy,organization&process,personnel and IT infrastructure,which can guide plant management capability measurement for manufacturing enterprises in China;second,four influence factors are simple list of parallel,but existing acting path among them as a causal relationship.Plant management strategy is at the highest layer,which has a direct positive influence on organization&process and indirect positive influences on personnel and IT infrastructure by the organization&process as a mediating variable;plant management organization&process is at the middle layer,which is directly influenced by strategy,and also has direct positive influences on personnel and IT infrastructure;plant management personnel and IT infrastructure are located in the bottom layer,and the personnel has a directly positive influence on the IT infrastructure;third,plant management capability has a significantly positive effect on plant performance.Plant management strategy,organization&process,personnel and IT infrastructure compose the model of plant management capability,under the influence of internal mechanism,IT infrastructure as a mediating variable has a significantly positive impact on plant performance.