Bio: Jiawei Zhang is an Associate Professor of Operations Management and Harold MacDowell Faculty Fellow at the Stern School of Business, New York University. He received a B.S. degree in Applied Mathematics and an M.S. degree in Operations Research from Tsinghua University, and a Ph.D. in Operations Research from Stanford University. His research interests include mathematical programming and ...

features summary of articles published in Indian and international journals with special emphasis on India and other emerging markets Indian Management Research

This paper presents some of the results of an ample comparative study on public administration developed by the author. It contains five sections in which the main characteristics of the public administrations models in Finland and Sweden are looked at, a comparative analysis of the two is undertaken, on the basis of which substantial advantages and means of know-how transfer are identified, fr...

DURING the last wo decades, in particular, there has developed a substantial body of literature in the fields of strategic management, strategic planning, corporate and business policy, and related topics. This literature owes much to the prior writings of Alfred Chandler [10] and the decades of case writing and research undertaken at Harvard Business School by many learned professors. Indeed, ...

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Click tracking is gaining in popularity and the practice of web analytics is growing fast. Can operations managers benefit from click tracking? Tingliang Huang and Jan Van Mieghem consider firms that feature their products on the Internet but take orders offline. Click and order data are disjoint on such non-transactional websites and their matching is error-prone. Yet, their time separation ma...

Effective management of supply chains requires integration and synchronization of processes across suppliers, manufacturers, warehouses, and stores. When successful, supply chain projects (such as, electronic data interchange, vendor managed inventory, and consignment warehousing) present significant opportunities for channel partners to achieve this requirement. Hence, supply chain project suc...

This essay analyses and evaluates critically Tesco’s current operations management. The essay discusses from 3 major perspectives namely, operations strategy, operations design and operations management. Firstly, it will show an introduction. The second section will analyze Tesco’s formats and international expansion at corporate strategy level. And then, based on the customer-centric conceptio...

This concludes a two-part commentary on management science and e-business, the theme of this two-part special issue. After reviewing the topical clusters that give organization to both parts, we sketch the papers appearing in this second part from the perspective of two key questions concerning the impact of the emerging digital economy on management science research: What fundamentally new res...