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In 1966, Elwood Buffa defined the boundaries of operations management in his book of selected papers, Readings in Production Operations Management. (John Wiley, 1966). He reached broadly into the the literature to develop this collection, which stimulated his peers to examine the field with a new perspective. In its subsequent use as a foundation text in operations management doctoral programs it influenced the thinking of many of today’s leading scholars.
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Miller, J.G. (1993). What is Operations Management? A Perspective from the Past a Projection for the Future. In: Sarin, R.K. (eds) Perspectives in Operations Management. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3166-1_22
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