Influence of the Degree of Centralization on the Decision Quality in Production Management

Global production network developed to complex systems, which are strongly influenced by their fast pace surrounding. Besides a robust and flexible network structure, the network management gets more important, as it has a direct impact on the network performance. Especially the production management offers great potential to steer the production in the network in the most efficient way, regarding economic as well as ecological aspects. However, the allocation of responsibilities is still often subjective and historically grown. In order to objectify this process, the presented paper analysis how the degree of centralization influences the decision quality regarding decision in strategical-and operational production management. Thus, the paper provides evidences, how further potentials in the network management can be realized by a targeted degree of centralization.