Process Theory: The Principles of Operations Management

by Roger Schmenner, Matthias Holweg, Arnoud De Meyer, et al.

The motivation for this book came out of a shared belief that what passed as 'theory' in operations management (OM) was all too often inadequate. In one respect, OM scholars were bending over backwards to make theories from other fields fit our research problems. In another, questionable assumptions were being used to apply mathematics to OM problems. Neither proved a good match with what the authors' had observed in practice. Successful operations...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199641064
• ISBN13: 9780199641062
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.3"