... a more sustainable future. Maria Holgado can be contacted at: m.holgado@sussex.ac.uk 10 12 2023 10 02 2024 24 02 2024 24 02 2024 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2024 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Operations management Operations...

... from the pandemic, incorporating the often-neglected social aspect of sustainability (Zorzini et al., 2015). Operations management Social responsibility Industry 4.0 COVID-19 Sustainability Digital The central argument in this viewpoint paper is that the pandemic has provided...

.../legalcode COVID-19 pandemic Operations management Research agenda Research-practice gap Retailing Supply chain management The global COVID-19 pandemic has caused severe economic shocks in many countries. Containment and mitigation measures taken by many governments around the world...

... contemporary and looming operations management (OM) and supply chain management (SCM) problems; including the coordination operations challenges raised by increased connectivity. Design/methodology/approach The systematic literature review approach adopted here examines 63 papers in OM and SCM published...

... Project management Process design Operations management Process management Complex processes A process can be most simply defined as a system (Pall, 1999) for transforming inputs into outputs in order to produce an outcome for a client. A project, on the other hand, is a temporary and complex...

... with the element of trust among stakeholders. Project management Operations management Open innovation Case study Projectification Crowdsourcing Traditionally, a project is defined as a temporary pursuit to create or develop a unique product, service or result, or beyond this, may be an activity...

... research gaps that can be bridged by the future research. Design/methodology/approach This content analysis-based literature review analyzes 133 empirical quantitative MS articles published in refereed international journals in the discipline of operations management. These articles are categorized...

...Helen Walker; Daniel Chicksand; Zoe Radnor; Glyn Watson Purpose – It is important to advance operations management (OM) knowledge while being mindful of the theoretical developments of the discipline. The purpose of this paper is to explore which theoretical perspectives have dominated the OM...

..., and strategies for implementation of lean and sustainable operations management (OM). This is encapsulated in the development of a stage-based theoretical model of lean-sustainability. Further, it is proposed that lean implementation and sustainability performance are in fact interlinked. Originality/value...

...) to describe the practice of adding services to combat falling profit margins while the term “product service system” has been adopted by many, particularly within the manufacturing and operations management communities (Baines et al., 2007). Most recently Vargo and Lusch (2004) have taken...

...Katri Kauppi; Claire Moxham; David Bamford Purpose – Research related to operations management (OM) in the sport industry is underdeveloped, despite sport being a continued context of study in other management disciplines. Most studies on the topic are conducted largely in isolation...

... Publishing Limited 2013 Institutional theory Supply chain management Operations management Operations management (OM) researchers and practitioners tend to view their work in terms of the logic of rational efficiency, which has been questioned by organizational theorists arguing...

... are at the discretion of the repairer but must not exceed the prices agreed in the estimate. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Supply chain management Governance Operations management Supply chain governance structure Logisitics Reverse logistics Crash repair United Kingdom Supply...

... Manufacturing industry Operations management Plant location and layout Empirical research Global production networks Manufacturing plants Operations strategy In order to support the competitive priorities of the products in the marketplace the manufacturing plants have to be designed and managed...

... Internal lean practices Operational performance Industry clockspeed Lean production Operations management Ireland In the past two decades, much attention has been paid to lean manufacturing with successful examples such as the Toyota production system (Womack et al., 1990 ; Womack...

...Cyril Foropon; Ron McLachlin Purpose This paper aims to illustrate the extent to which metaphors help to understand operations management research topics. Design/methodology/approach This paper is based upon a review of the role of metaphors in organisational theory building and the use...

... to the testing of the extended model, the study provides openings for further theoretical development. In particular, the findings demonstrate the value of the contingency theoretical concept of suboptimal equifinality to operations management research. Practical implications The study updates the product...

...Steve Brown Purpose The aim of this series of papers is to offer key insights from eminent professors or practitioners within the field of Operations Management. This is the second of a series of interviews with “Operations Masters” and future contributions will include a range of inputs from...

...Alistair Brandon‐Jones; Niall Piercy; Nigel Slack; Alistair Brandon‐Jones; Niall Piercy; Nigel Slack Purpose The aim of this review and of the papers in this special issue is to critically examine different approaches to teaching operations management (OM) in order to provoke and stimulate...

...Alistair Brandon‐Jones; Niall Piercy; Nigel Slack; Luciano Costa Santos; Cláudia Fabiana Gohr; Milton Vieira Junior Purpose The paper aims to present a hands‐on activity for operations management (OM) education that simulates assembly operations common in industrial settings using polyvinyl...