Research in global operations management: some highlights and potential future trends
Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management
ISSN: 1741-038X
Article publication date: 3 April 2017
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to shortly overview the research in international operations management (OM), to provide background to the papers published in this special section.
Design/methodology/approach
As a literature review, the paper investigates the past, present, and future of international OM. It is not a systematic review; the paper just highlights the most important international operational management research networks, streams and concepts in the field.
Findings
The paper finds that there is a time lag in the field of international OM compared to other research areas within international business and management. It provides some ideas for the future to be researched.
Originality/value
The paper gives a focused review on international research networks which has not been done before. It also identifies two different streams of researches in international OM: the stream investigating OM differences among geographical areas, and the stream dealing with issues of international manufacturing networks.
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Acknowledgements
For the author, having the role of a guest editor, going through the review rounds and seeing how the papers came closer and closer to the points the authors wanted to address was an exciting process. The author would like to thank the reviewers of this special section for their valuable work (including the reviewers whose reviewed papers were rejected during the process), the authors for submitting their work, taking the revisions seriously and improving their papers, and the editor-in-chief for his trust and advice along this journey. The author hopes the readers will find the papers as interesting as she did. The author also grateful to Harry Boer, Harm-Jan Steenhuis and Levente Szász for their valuable comments on this editorial.
Citation
Demeter, K. (2017), "Research in global operations management: some highlights and potential future trends", Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management, Vol. 28 No. 3, pp. 324-333. https://doi.org/10.1108/JMTM-02-2017-0030
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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