INTEGRATED OPERATIONS: A PROPOSAL FOR OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT TEACHING AND RESEARCH
面向研究型大学的运营管理教授，提出该学科需要生成与运营管理实践独特相关的理论，并给出了一个以物理学、社会心理学和哲学为基础学科的整合框架。
This paper, addressed to professors of operations management (om) in research institutions, suggests that the long‐term academic viability of our discipline requires the generation of a theory uniquely associated with the practice of OM. Such a theory will rest on foundations laid by other disciplines, but must find its own unique synthesis that attends to the problems of OM practice. The paper proposes a framework that recognizes physics, social psychology and philosophy as foundational disciplines for an integrative theoryof OM and suggests which concepts from those disciplines may find voice in such a theory.