TY - BOOK AU - Holweg,Matthias AU - Davies,Jane AU - Meyer,Arnoud de AU - Lawson,Benn AU - Schmenner,Roger W. TI - Process theory: the principles of operations management AV - TS155 .H648 2018 PY - 2018/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Production management KW - Business and Management KW - eflch KW - fast KW - Operations Management KW - gnd KW - Prozessmanagement KW - Produktion KW - ukslc KW - local KW - Print books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - The motivation for this book came out of a shared belief that what passed as 'theory' in operations management (OM) was all too often inadequate. In one respect, OM scholars were bending over backwards to make theories from other fields fit our research problems. In another, questionable assumptions were being used to apply mathematics to OM problems. This book provides a succinct summary of the core knowledge of OM through a set of ten fundamental principles that bring together a century of operations management thinking, and which cover all basic aspects of the core teaching covered at Master's level ER -