Designing production planning and control systems
提出了一个权变模型，解释不同企业在生产计划与控制系统上的差异，将系统投资和组织整合程度与企业的竞争战略和环境联系起来，并基于有限样本和管理者小组的数据验证了模型的有效性。
Abstract This paper presents a contingency model designed to explain aggregate differences in the specifications for production planning and control systems across firms. The specifications for a firm's system, stated broadly in terms of the investment in information processing systems and organizational integrativeness, are related to that firm's competitive strategy and environment. An analysis of data from a limited sample of companies, and a panel of managers, provides insights into the applicability of the concepts used in the model, and its potential usefulness.