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Replication as a strategy in capital intensive industries
Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2010.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/23134 Replication as a strategy in capital intensive industries Barnard, Helena melvin.jones@sasol.com Jones, Melvin UCTD Organisational effective Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2010. Researchers describing replication strategies have proposed theoretical constructs that are positively associated with successful replication. In a rigorous quantitative exploration of replication in capital intensive industries, this study is the first of its kind and seeks to prove the applicability of the theoretical frameworks. Responses to questionnaires sent to petrochemical refining sites, coupled with an independent performance metric (the Solomon Associates Comparative Performance Assessment Index) were used to model the impact of replication practices on site performance. This model is used to show that firms attempting to centrally define an Arrow Core suffer a performance penalty. Furthermore, the model shows that a clear differentiation between the phases of exploration and exploitation is not a requirement for successful replication in capital intensive industries. The model helps to explain why barriers exist preventing the conceptualisation of the core capabilities within capital intensive industries; why companies seeking to locally control deleterious practices are negatively impacted compared to those implementing centralised mechanisms; and why the effective use of a template yields a performance advantage even in the absence of a well defined Arrow Core. The analysis also suggests appropriate practices for managers seeking to expand in capital intensive sectors. Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) unrestricted 2013-09-06T14:38:49Z 2010-05-26 2013-09-06T14:38:49Z 2009-04-01 2010-05-26 2010-03-12 Dissertation Jones, M 2008, Replication as a strategy in capital intensive industries, MBA dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/23134 > G10/31/mh http://hdl.handle.net/2263/23134 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-03122010-152143/ © 2008, University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Organisational effective Replication as a strategy in capital intensive industries |
| title | Replication as a strategy in capital intensive industries |
| title_full | Replication as a strategy in capital intensive industries |
| title_fullStr | Replication as a strategy in capital intensive industries |
| title_full_unstemmed | Replication as a strategy in capital intensive industries |
| title_short | Replication as a strategy in capital intensive industries |
| title_sort | replication as a strategy in capital intensive industries |
| topic | UCTD Organisational effective |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/23134 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-03122010-152143/ |