The Manufacturing Holonic Structured Virtual Team Organization: Labour Cost Reduction?

It is an undeniable fact that business endeavours in modern times are centred on offshore operations. This scenario demands the employment of virtual teams to be seen as an essential requirement. The experiences from COVID-19 pandemic corroborate this reality. Corporations ought to revise their strategies to successfully incorporate technology as a part of their habitual actions. Holonic manufacturing emerges as a powerful communication and collaboration tool for virtual teams to optimize resources and human power. This study is based on an experiment consisting in a simulated automobile assembly industry. Holonic organizations are compared to non-holonic structures in terms of labour costs based on effective work times. The study employed a Holonic Manufacturing Structure to analyse its possible impact on labour cost reduction among several other advantages.

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  2023

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  Management and Labour Studies

• Publication date

  2023-05-01

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  DOI 10.1177/0258042X231163455
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