Purpose: This paper examines the claim that the application of human factors (HF) knowledge can improve both human well-being and operations system performance. Methodology: A systematic review was conducted using a general and two specialist databases to identify empirical studies addressing...

Purpose – To show that necessary condition hypotheses are important in operationsmanagement, and to present a consistent methodology for building and testing them.Necessary condition hypotheses (“X is necessary for Y”) express conditions that must bepresent in order to have a desired...

Theory-building with cases is (a) formulating new propositions that emerge from the empirical evidence in a sample of cases and (b) testing them in the same sample. The main difference with most other forms of generating new propositions (such as analyzing the theoretical literature,...