Many scholars mentioned various dimensions and complex relations for manufacturing °exi-bility that implementing all of them is not possible for a manufacturing ̄rm. On the other hand,today\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s dynamic environment convinces °exible organizations to create capabilities in order totake over competitors. Hence, the aim of this study is to determine dominant groups of °exi-bility for manufacturing ̄rms and to prioritize them under the in°uence of dynamic organi-zational capabilities. In this research, ̄rstly components of dynamic organizational capabilitiesand °exibility of manufacturing are identi ̄ed by content analysis method. Then, based on that,taxonomy for Iran\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s manufacturing ̄rms was determined using support vector machine algo-rithm. In the next step, based on experts\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\' view using FDEMATEL method, conceptual modelfor relationship of manufacturing °exibility dimension as well as dynamic capabilities areprovided. Conceptual model in three °exibility clusters was tested by structural equationmodeling, and dominant groups were prioritized based on dynamic organizational capabilities.Results show that the best number of clusters is three. Results also show that dynamic orga-nizational capabilities not only a®ect °exibility dimensions of manufacturing but also thisin°uence is di®erent in manufacturing ̄rms with various industry ̄elds.

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