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Operations Management resources @ the Carnegie Mellon University Libraries
Preliminaries - library services
Basics
Operations Management volume in the Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management. The preface to the volume has a concise overview, and the encyclopedia has short descriptions of all the major issues and segments of the field. Another way to get there:
Click on Blackwell Encyclopedia on the database list, and then on Volume X on the left. (If you're off campus, see the link in the above section to log in first.)Encyclopedia of Operations Research - book in Hunt Library reference collection, T57.6 .E53.
Research
Journals
Top research journals published by INFORMS, the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. They can be searched all together, here, or by individual title:
- Decision Analysis
- Information Systems Research
- INFORMS Journal on Computing
- Interfaces
- Management Science
- Manufacturing and Service Operations Management
- Marketing Science
- Mathematics of Operations Research
- Operations Research
- Organization Science
- Transportation Science
- INFORMS Transactions on Education
Other important journals are:
- European Journal of Operational Research
- International Journal of Logistics Management
- International Journal of Operations and Production Management
- International Journal of Production Research
- Journal of Operations Management
- Operations Management
- OR/MS Today
- Production and Operations Management
- Supply Chain Management
Books can be found by searching the catalog:
Click on "Browse Search" (under the box) - and then type in "production management" and click on "Subject" below. You'll find a number of recent books, and where to find them in the library.
Some selected titles (can be checked out of Hunt Library)
- Customer-driven operations management, by Ahoy, Christopher K., 2009
- Operations management : creating value along the supply chain, by Russell, Roberta, 2009
- Operations strategy : principles and practice, by Van Mieghem, Jan, 2008
- Building intuition : insights from basic operations management models and principles, by Chhajed, Dilip, 2007
- Operations, strategy, and technology : pursuing the competitive edge, by Hayes, Robert, 2005.
other headings to search under:
- Industrial management
- Industrial engineering
- Industrial organization
- Industrial productivity
- Industrial relations
- Industrial sociology
- Inventory control
- Management science
- Operations research
- Process control
- Production planning
Industry news
- SupplyChainBrain newsletters - free current content on logistics, industries, technology, etc.
Other databases to use
- ABI Inform - management literature
- Academic Onefile - peer-reviewed research in all fields
- Gartner - information technology reports
- IEEE Xplore - electrical engineering, electronics, and computer science literature
- Engineering Village - all fields of engineering, plus material science, operations research, communications, computer science, etc.
More resources
- Operations Research/Management Science Resources Page - newsgroups, courses, societies, research groups, people, jobs, etc.
- Academy of Management Operations Management Division
- Techology and Operations Management
- Tepper Professor Michael Trick's Blog
- The Operations Room Blog
Careers
- Operations Managers
- Industrial Production Managers
- Careers in Supply Chain Management
- APICS - the Association for Operations Management career page
Other guides can be found on the Tepper Library page .
Questions?
Contact the librarians: