Citation:
Neely, A. (2005) What has 25 years of P/OM research taught us about productivity. EurOMA 12th Annual Conference, Budapest, 19-22 June 2005
Abstract:
Achieving productivity growth that is both sustained and sustainable is clearly a
concern of Governments across the world, yet what has 25-years of research in
production and operations management taught us about productivity and to what
extent have these lessons been incorporated into mainstream public policy debates.
Using data gathered during a meta-analysis of papers published during the last 25
years in the International Journal of Operations and Production Management
(IJOPM), the Journal of Operations Management (JOM) and the International Journal
of Production Economics (IJPE) this paper argues that the P/OM community has
largely failed to engage with the policy community, not because the research
undertaken by the P/OM community is irrelevant to the policy community, but
because the P/OM community has failed to capitalize on its relevance. Using a
framework based on the OMA model – opportunity, motivation and ability - we
explore the reasons why this is the case for individual P/OM scholars and the
community as a whole.