The Routledge Companion to Production and Operations Management

ISBN-13: 9781138919594 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 712 str.

Opis

This remarkable volume highlights the importance of production and operations management as a field of study and research contributing to substantial business and social growth. The editors emphasize how production and operations management works with a range of systems agriculture, disaster management, e-commerce, healthcare, hospitality, military systems, not-for-profit, retail, sports, sustainability, telecommunications, and transport and how it contributes to the growth of each. Starr and Gupta gather an international team of over sixty-five experts to provide researchers and students with a panoramic vision of the production and operations management field. Divided into eight parts, the book establishes the foundation upon which production and operations management has been built, while also revisiting and revitalizing topics that have long been essential. It then combines practical skill with philosophy in its analysis of production and operations management, including traditional and non-traditional applications, before concluding with the editors thoughts on the future of the discipline. Detailed equations and useful diagrams combined with modern examples such as Apple and Disney will contextualize theory for readers, and provide a useful starting point for research. Students of production and operations management will find this a comprehensive, definitive resource on the state of the discipline and its future directions. "

O autorze

Martin K. Starr is Distinguished Professor of Production and Operations Management Emeritus at Rollins College, and Emeritus Senior Professor of Operations Research, Management Science, and Operations Management at Columbia University, both in the USA. He is a past president of the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) and the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). He is Director of Strategic Planning for POMS. Sushil K. Gupta is Professor in the College of Business at Florida International University, USA, and an honorary professor at Universidad Ricardo Palma, Peru. He is one of the founding members and a past president of the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) and serves on the advisory board of the Production and Operations Management journal. He is the Executive Director of POMS.