Saladin, Shang, Fry, and Donohue analyze the research constituents of Production and Operations Management Journal since its inaugural issue in 1992 through 2012. During this time, POMS published 720 articles that were authored by 1,161 different authors who were affiliated with 337 academic institutions. The authors of this article identify the total research contribution to POMS from these ac...

Copyright: © 2016 Frascino A. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Diabetes is a disease associated with increased surgical complications and deficient tissue repair. However, recent publications cl...

Since they were first developed, lean methodologies have grown in importance and scope and have been applied in both manufacturing and service. However, determining how to transform a common manufacturing company into a lean one, as well as how to evaluate the future company, are challenges for both researchers and manufacturers. This paper presents a case study of a lean manufacturing implemen...

This paper discusses the development of critical hospitality management research (CHMR) and explores key issues that such approaches raise. The paper is split into two parts. The first reviews contemporary writings that reflect the changing nature of hospitality management research and accounts for the emergence of a critical tradition. The second part identifies eight areas which are central c...

Koichi Sugimoto1,2 Nobutaka Shimizu1 Takashi Oki2 Kazuhiro Nose2 Tsukasa Nishioka2 Shogo Adomi3 Takayuki Ohzeki3 Atsunobu Esa3 Hirotsugu Uemura1 1Department of Urology, Kinki University Faculty of Medicine, OsakaSayama, Osaka, Japan; 2Department of Urology, Sakai Hospital Kinki University Faculty of Medicine, Sakai, Osaka, Japan; 3Department of Urology, NTT West Osaka Hospital, Osaka, Osaka, Japan

Affiliation: Department of Implantology, Stomatology Center, Affiliated Haikou Hospital of Central South University Xiangya Medical School, 43 Renmin avenue, Haikou 570208, China *Corresponding author: Xiao-Quan Mao, Department of Implantology, Stomatology Center, Affiliated Haikou Hospital of Central South University Xiangya Medical School, 43 Renmin avenue, Haikou 570208, China. E-mail: horse...

Concern has been expressed that the pace of play of golf has become too slow, i.e., that the amount of time spent waiting and the overall time required to play a full round of eighteen holes have become excessively long. It is natural to respond to this challenge by applying the principles of production and operations management, because successive groups of golfers playing on a conventional go...