Is production and operations management a discipline? A citation/co‐citation study
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For the past 20 years, the field of production and operations management (POM) has tried to establish itself as a discipline distinct from operations research (OR), management science (MS) and industrial engineering (IE). Sceptics argue that POM has failed to develop its own body of literature, lacks a distinct intellectual structure and that there is little appreciation of what it stands for. In this paper we use bibliometric techniques (a factor analysis of co‐citations) to investigate the intellectual pillars of the POM literature and explore whether these are distinct from those commonly associated with its rival fields. We also use simple non‐parametric techniques to show that the research agenda of European POM scholars differs substantially from that of their North American counterparts, and argue that such transatlantic differences may have exacerbated the difficulties POM has experienced in developing as a respected academic discipline.
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- Authors
- Pilkington, A., & Liston‐Heyes, C.
- Affiliations
- Royal Holloway University of London (GB)
- Venue
- International Journal of Operations & Production Management
- Publisher
- Emerald
- Published
- 1999-01-01
- Volume
- 19
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 7-20
- ISSN
- 0144-3577 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2038078580
- Cited by
- 188
- References
- 99
- Citations by year
- 2026: 6 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 12 · 2022: 11 · 2021: 9 · 2020: 8 · 2019: 11 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 9 · 2016: 11 · 2015: 5 · 2014: 12 · 2013: 14 · 2012: 14
- FWCI
- 4.54
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- International Journal of Operations & Production Management (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Strategy and Management › Management and Optimization Techniques
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty › scientometrics and bibliometrics research
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Information Systems and Management › Business and Management Studies
- Keywords
- operations management, academic discipline status, intellectual structure, co-citation analysis, operations research, management science, industrial engineering, research agenda
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