The unprecedented availability of data, along with the growing variety of software packages to visualize it, presents both opportunities and challenges for operations management (OM) research. OM researchers typically use data to describe conditions, predict phenomena, or make prescriptions...

This paper underlines the concept of the organization of information as a process and attempts to understand how information is organized for storage and retrieval. It examines a similar concept of Knowledge Organization (KO) and argues that though Information organization (IO) is a process much...

Innovation and diversity are both multidimensional terms and definitions for them are as varied as the number of academic disciplines, policy makers, and business leaders that specialize in them. Globalization brings both opportunities and challenges. However, innovation is not easy Knowledge...

Over the past years, businesses have had to tackle the issues caused by numerous forces from political, technological and societal environment. The changes in the global market and increasing uncertainty require us to focus on disruptive innovations and to investigate this phenomenon from...

The large number of recalled products, the low proportion of recalled products returned for repair or replacement, and the high costs (lawsuits, communication, product repair and/or replacement, government agency fines and lost sales, etc.) associated with product recalls indicate the need for...

Purpose: Robotic process automation (RPA) refers to software robots (bots) that automate repetitive, rule-based tasks in a business process. In this study, the research questions regarding logistics applications are as follows: (1) What are suitable use cases for RPA in logistics? (2) Which...

Agile Prozesse und zertifizierte Managementsysteme wirken anfänglich wie ein Widerspruch, insbesondere hinsichtlich der Steuerung des Prozessverlaufs sowie der Kontrolle beabsichtigter Ergebnisse. Doch ein wissenschaftlicher Blick auf etablierte Formen der Prozesssteuerung legte im Rahmen einer...