Linking critical success factors, implementation attitudes and performance of cellular manufacturing systems

The performance of Cellular Manufacturing (CM) systems has been rigorously investigated during the last two decades, but the extent of empirical research on CM is limited. A major objective of this study is to examine the relationship between critical success factors, employees' implementation attitudes and performance of CM systems. Two hypotheses were formulated and tested: (1) The impact of critical success factors on performance and to what extent do certain critical success factors correlate with performance? (2) How does the relationship between critical success factors and performance differ by employees' implementation attitudes? Results from the study provide partial support for relationship between critical success factors (infrastructure, organizational immersion, autonomous management) and performance. The results also show that differences in performance of organizations grouped by degree of employees' attitudes could be found.