Production and Operations Management 1998

INTEGRATED OPERATIONS: A PROPOSAL FOR OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT TEACHING AND RESEARCH

William S. Lovejoy

University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Abstract

This paper, addressed to professors of operations management (om) in research institutions, suggests that the long‐term academic viability of our discipline requires the generation of a theory uniquely associated with the practice of OM. Such a theory will rest on foundations laid by other disciplines, but must find its own unique synthesis that attends to the problems of OM practice. The paper proposes a framework that recognizes physics, social psychology and philosophy as foundational disciplines for an integrative theoryof OM and suggests which concepts from those disciplines may find voice in such a theory.

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10.1111/j.1937-5956.1998.tb00443.x

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