The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management, Volume 10, Operations Management, 2nd Edition

Cary L. Cooper is based at Lancaster University as Professor of Organizational Psychology. He is the author of over 80 books, is past editor of the Journal of Organizational Behavior, and Founding President of the British Academy of Management.

Advisory Editors

Chris Argyris is James Bryant Conant Professor of Education and Organizational Behavior at Harvard Business School.

William Haynes Starbuck is Professor of Management and Organizational Behavior at the Stern School of Business, New York University.

Volume Editors

Nigel Slack is the Royal Academy of Engineering Professor of Service and Support Management at Cambridge University and Professor of Operations Strategy at Warwick Business School. He is the author of many publications in the Operations Management area, including the market leading text, Operations Management (Fourth Edition, 2004) with Stuart Chambers and Robert Johnston, which has been translated into several languages.

Michael Lewis is Professor of Operations and Supply Management at Bath University. He has published widely in the Operations Management and Strategy areas, including the four-volume series of edited papers Operations Management: Critical Perspectives

(2003).