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In business operations, controlling the process of production of goods
Operations management is concerned with designing and controlling the production of goods and services, ensuring that businesses are efficient in using resources to meet customer requirements. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Operations managementA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Metaverse supply chain and operations managementInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Operations ManagementThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Sustainable Operations ManagementCited 1,379 times
- Go sideways: Demand flow technologyA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Manufacturing resource planningA closely related topic
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Sustainable Operations Management
International operations management research
Service Operations Management research
Behavioral Operations Management
Process Management Instead of Operations Management
Greening Operations Management
Operations management and reengineering
International operations management and operations management research: a comparative analysis
🆕 Influential since 2022
📚 Books worth reading
Operations ManagementLee J. Krajewski · 1987
ManagementStephen P. Robbins · 1984
Operations managementJay H. Heizer, Jay Heizer · 1999
The Psychology of Everyday ThingsDonald A. Norman · 1988
Operations managementRoberta S. Russell, Bernard W. Taylor · 1997
An introduction to management scienceDavid Ray Anderson · 1976
Introduction to operations researchFrederick S. Hillier · 1967
Operations ManagementWilliam J. Stevenson · 2004
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