Efficiency Frontier Identification Based on Operations Strategy - A Retrospective Analysis of Leading Authors

Abstract

Increasingly, organizations must be able to compete in the context of global standards. The operations function has an important role in this scenario as the operational efficiency can contribute to the competitive advantage development. The operations strategy, in its turn, has an important role in making feasible operational efficiency. This paper seeks to investigate the literature about Efficiency Frontier Identification in the context of Operations Strategy. This is accomplished through a comprehensive systematic literature review supported by bibliometric analysis techniques. The search was realized at web of science and Scopus databases, screening papers between 1997 and 2017, all in English language and published in refereed journals. The systematic literature review is based on the Proknow-C process framework and resulted in 19 papers fully related to Operations Strategy and Efficiency Frontier identification. Such a set of papers is reviewed bringing out the research standard. A bibliometric analysis is also presented, including keywords, main authors and journals in a timeframe perspective. The paper brings insights into future work opportunities, revealing that the main publication’s focus is on the resource-based view approach and the concept of capabilities. Therefore, there is a clear need for extending the research with a focus on the market-based view approach.