Manufacturing Impacts On The Competitiveness Of The Business

Running head: CASE STUDY EVALUATION
Case Study Evaluation
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CASE STUDY EVALUATION
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Analysis of the Case Study
In this aspect, a case study will be analysed. The current case study is a multiple case
study regarding additive manufacturing impacts on the competitiveness of the business. The
primary analysis of this study reveals that the current nature of this study is exploratory. As
the current study is exploratory in nature, this study does not provide any type of statistically
generalizable and definitive findings. The current nature of this research does not provide any
type of definitive findings, but still, this research has provided an empirical insight related to
how the additive manufacturing technology is capable of affecting specifically the
manufacturing industry (Niaki & Nonino, 2017). Also, this study has demonstrated how
additive manufacturing in the Rapid Manufacturing of metal products has increased overall
productivity.
In this research, the authors have first elaborated on the additive manufacturing
process. In this context, the authors have identified that additive manufacturing is an
emerging technology, and it has the potential of becoming the next industrial revolution.
Here, the authors have performed this study for analysing the effect of additive
manufacturing on business competitiveness. The main aim of this study is to identify the
influences of additive manufacturing in business performance, business strategies, and
determining the contingent factors driving performance. Another purpose of this study is to
clarify the relationship between the identified influences, product characteristics, and
organization (Niaki & Nonino, 2017). Considering the research methodology, the authors
have performed an exploratory type of study where they have used multiple case study
research methodology. For the multiple case study research methodology, more than one case
study has been studied for developing a generalization regarding a phenomenon. Here, the
authors have sampled 16 heterogeneous organizations by using the theoretical replication