Enablers for Competitiveness of Indian Manufacturing Sector: An ISM-Fuzzy MICMAC Analysis

Abstract Now a days global competitive scenario plays a critical role in success of Indian manufacturing sector. The present study argues that innovation can play a very important role in providing this competitiveness of Indian manufacturing sector. The study identifies 11 enablers for promotion of innovation in the Indian manufacturing sector. Based on the rigorous literature review 11 major innovation enablers (IEs) are obtained. The Delphi technique is applied as a potentially valuable tool for the grouping these enablers. The study, analyse the impact of innovation enablers (IEs) to enhance the manufacturing competitiveness and categories into three phases firstly, identification of innovation enablers, secondly, qualitative analysis of enablers and final quantitative analysis of the innovation enablers. The research theme has been categories into three segments, i.e. identifying the enablers from the literature, conduct interviews with directors of different departments and analysis of the manufacturing industries. The study involves 100 manufacturing companies across India and the data is gathered using a 5-point Likert scale. Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM) has been used to analyse the relationships among these enablers as well as fuzzy MICMAC (Matriced’ Impacts Croise's Multiplication Appliquee a UN Classement) analysis used to find out driving and the dependence power of enablers. To identify the driving and the dependence power of various IEs the final outcomes of ISM are used as input to the fuzzy MICMAC analysis. This analysis serves to identify which (IEs) is performing as the most leading one to raise the competitiveness of manufacturing industries. This study plays a vital role to enhance the competitiveness of manufacturing industries in India.

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