The continuing debate on production and operations management (POM) research has led to a new emphasis on empirical … research is particularly valuable for theory building, as has been seen in the fields of organization behaviour (OB) and … methods. POM researchers can learn from the experience of other disciplines and use action research to create new theory …

The organisational design of production systems is thought to be one of the key determinants of their performance … practitioners need up‐to‐date, comprehensive and sufficiently detailed organisation design theory. However, 27 case studies aimed at … identifying and explaining design performance relationships produced results that could not be explained using organisation theory …

"The classical economists were primarily engaged in analysis of the wonder that is production. The marginalists, while … because there they found a problem readily amenable to the mathematical tools at hand. Production process was assimilated … after a couple of decades, in a conveniently truncated form In neoclassical writings production was a mirror image of the …