Management Discipline Research Articles

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION IN OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT: A BIBLIOMETRIC-BASED SYSTEMATIC REVIEW

Digital transformation undoubtedly has important implications on the discipline of Operations Management. To unveil these effects and interpret the future research directions requires an in-depth review and analysis of the scientific literature on this research area. This study uses a two-stage approach including Systematic Literature Review and bibliometric analysis to draw a broad perspective on the relationship between DT and OM, reveal the thematic evolution of this research area, and inference about potential future research directions. The scope of the analysis includes the articles drawn from the Web of Science and Scopus databases published between 2007 and 2021 in this research area. With the descriptive analysis of 3021 selected articles to the research sample, top articles, authors, countries, journals, and keywords in this research field were determined. Following the descriptive analysis of the data, the co-occurrence analysis of keywords, thematic evolution, and thematic map analysis was conducted using RStudio and VOSviewer.. All bibliometric analyzes were performed using the R Bibliometrix package.

A Systematic Literature Review and Conceptual Framework of Construction Industrialization

Construction industrialization (CI) has dramatically altered how architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) companies design, manufacture, build, operate, and manage. Despite its growing relevance in both academia and companies in the last decades, the CI field has, however, been considered unclear, fragmented, and with a high level of misunderstandings. To address this knowledge gap through a systematic literature review, this paper provides a holistic and comprehensive conceptualization of the phenomenon and its theoretical basis for the global engineering and construction management community. In total, 102 articles from the last 11 years (2010–2021) from the Scopus and Web of Science databases were collected and analyzed. So, one primary contribution of this paper is the establishment of a definition for the CI concept. Another important contribution is the definition of a conceptual framework that introduces industrialization as a new way of operating the business, where five major dimensions, namely strategy, organization, business processes, supply chain planning, and resources, need to be aligned and managed simultaneously for competitive advantage. Furthermore, 10 design principles, five influencing factors, and 19 initiatives are presented to provide an integrated and holistic view of the concept. This article gives businesses a better knowledge of what industrialization in the construction industry actually means, enabling them to move forward with this transformation. Finally, the research provides a basis for improving future contributions in CI and adjacent management disciplines.

Necessary condition analysis (NCA): review of research topics and guidelines for good practice

Necessary condition analysis (NCA) is an increasingly used or suggested method in many business and management disciplines including, for example, entrepreneurship, human resource management, international business, marketing, operations, public and nonprofit management, strategic management, and tourism. In the light of this development, our work delivers a review of the topics analyzed with NCA or in which NCA is proposed as a method. The review highlights the tremendous possibilities of using NCA, which hopefully encourages other researchers to try the method. To support researchers in future NCA studies, this article also provides detailed guidelines about how to best use NCA. These cover eight topics: theoretical justification, meaningful data, scatter plot, ceiling line, effect size, statistical test, bottleneck analysis, and further descriptions of NCA.

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IIMS Journal of Management Science publishes original research and review articles that demonstrate theoretical and empirical research in management discipline through qualitative or quantitative methods. It follows a double-blind peer review policy.

Various Options for Mining and Metallurgical Waste in the Circular Economy: A Review

In the last few years, the mining and metallurgy industry has made concerted efforts to improve waste management through a byproduct recovery strategy, mainly focusing on developing innovative technologies to provide sustainable solutions. This strategy has seen the metallurgy industry exploit more natural resources in waste streams while reducing its environmental impact, making the ‘zero-waste’ goal possible. As such, the concept of circular economy emerged, which seeks to improve the environmental sustainability of mining operations by recycling and reusing the generated waste as raw materials for producing other new products. This paper aims to analyze the findings from published studies on the treatment and stabilization technologies of metallurgical waste or byproducts for the construction industry. Furthermore, the paper synthesizes information on processes and treatment strategies to beneficiate the waste materials for application in the building and construction sector. Finally, the paper identifies knowledge gaps in the literature, using a comprehensive overview of the superior results achieved by the metallurgical industry and potential synergies with other industrial sectors. In conclusion, the paper presents future opportunities while highlighting specific areas that may be further explored. This review paper is helpful to researchers in the mining waste management discipline to have an aerial view of what has already been achieved in the field to improve the existing processes for environment preservation.

Professionalism in Sports Administration: a Literature Review

Purpose: The professionalism in sports administration and management is one of the most important areas that relate to all aspects of the nature and life of individuals as it is considered a successful method in setting the objectives of individuals in a scientific way. Professionalization of sport has a prominent and enduring history in the field of sports management. Theoretical Framework: The study adopts the theory of professionalism in sports administration as the theoretical framework of the study. Design/Methodology/Approach: This study has systematically reviewed the notion of professionalism in the studies related to sports administration. The choice of research paradigms, methods, interests, perspective, and operational definitions have been reviewed from the past literature. Furthermore, this study has attempted to identify potential research gaps and future avenues of inquiry within the port management discipline. Findings: The findings reveal that current success is based upon effective and efficient management of the bilateral association of sport management and professionalism. Reflecting on the historical and future drivers of the incident industry. Research practical Implication: The study implicates that educator’s one may not fully control the professional position of the sport management ‘profession’, but one may perform a significant role. Originality/Value: The value of the study lies in the fact that a better understanding of professionals is fundamental to ensuring a successful and productive implementation of the concept in any field particular sports management and administration.

Aesthetic labour and diversity on the shopfloor: the experiences of women workers in fashion retail

PurposeThis paper explores the workplace experiences of aesthetic labour among racially diverse frontline women workers in a fashion retail store.Design/methodology/approachThis qualitative study is based on an ethnographic study, drawing on findings from participant observation and interviews with frontline workers at a fashion retail store in the UK.FindingsThis paper explores how the embodiments of aesthetic labour are perpetually produced and commodified through the discipline of management in a fashion retail store. It challenges the notion of phenotypical Whiteness as the beauty standard within fashion retail and demonstrates how embodiments differ according to race. While White women are continuously scrutinised by their appearance, the aesthetic demands for women of colour tend to focus on speech and racialised bodies to provide “authentically” exotic experiences for customers. Additionally, this study highlights how the mobilisation of aesthetic labour can create work humiliation and work alienation.Research limitations/implicationsDespite this study being based on an ethnographic study at one British fashion retailer, this paper seeks to give voices to an underrepresented group by exploring the lived experiences of racially diverse women workers.Originality/valueThis paper contributes to the intersection between aesthetic labour and race from an embodiment perspective, exploring the workplace experiences of racially diverse women workers in fashion retail and how their various forms of embodiment are racialised and commodified.

The importance of interactions in supporting online study

The social distancing rules during the COVID-19 pandemic have inadvertently changed the activities of teaching and learning- with an unprecedented push to online courses. Educational institutions in developed countries have quickly adapted to the situation by developing their digital platforms to support e-learning. Whereas those in developing countries, particularly Vietnam, found it challenging to respond to the significant increase in online instruction because of lack of equipment and technology gap. This paper aims to examine a blending approach which combines visual technologies and social interactions to support full-time remote education. Qualitative method was employed with the use of thematic analysis to examine respondents’ perspectives of their daily online learning. Data was collected through semi-structured interviews of 05 lecturers and 10 undergraduate students in site construction management discipline as they are among groups experiencing seriously negative effects on quality of knowledge exchange which requires amount of time practice on-site or field-laboratory. Activity Theory was employed to guide the data analysis. Four main themes were found in related to “using interactive tools”, “developing a learning support community”, “defining responsibilities of educators and students” and “governing activities of educators and students” to meet learning objectives within online courses.

Content Analysis of Management Doctoral Thesis in Indian Universities

The discipline of Business management is witnessing a considerable increase in the number of applicants in Ph.D. programs in Indian Universities.Amidst the growing demand for studies based on content analysis of doctoral thesis, this study explores the trends in management thesis submitted during the last twenty years in Indian Universities. The study utilizes quantitative content analysis on dissertations published by Indian Universities within the last twenty years (2000–2020) to present a research business thesis submitted in Indian Universities. The results from the quantitative content analysis of the business management thesis shall help the researchers understand scholarship expectations and identify deficiencies for better policy and practices.

The biggest business process management problems to solve before we die

It may be tempting for researchers to stick to incremental extensions of their current work to plan future research activities. Yet there is also merit in realizing the grand challenges in one’s field. This paper presents an overview of the nine major research problems for the Business Process Management discipline. These challenges have been collected by an open call to the community, discussed and refined in a workshop setting, and described here in detail, including a motivation why these problems are worth investigating. This overview may serve the purpose of inspiring both novice and advanced scholars who are interested in the radical new ideas for the analysis, design, and management of work processes using information technology.

Peran Teknologi Informasi Dan Komunikasi Dalam Pengelolaan Pendidikan Menengah Pasca Pandemi Covid-19

Improving high-level thinking skills (high-order thinking) has become an essential requirement This article raises a study of the role of information and communication technology in the management of secondary education after the Covid-19 pandemic, bearing in mind that the Covid-19 pandemic has changed the governance of education in general, including secondary education. On the other hand, the government implemented a distance learning policy (PJJ) and reduced face-to-face learning (PTM) at the start of the pandemic. In these conditions and situations, information and communication technology (ICT) is considered very important. Although in reality, there are many obstacles, such as low human resources, lack of infrastructure, and geographical conditions. From there, online and offline learning is often the best choice. This type of research is qualitative. The approach used is an educational management approach. Data is collected from library sources. The theory used to analyze the data is the blended learning theory. This study found three main aspects; first, the issue of using ICT is partial, where school institutions that are human, social, cultural, and infrastructure ready will benefit significantly from ICT. Vice versa. Second, the presence of the government's role in offering solutions to the problem of education management is also partial. ICT is not optimal because government support is not holistic, it is even dysfunctional when faced with old problems of educational institutions, such as lack of infrastructure and geographical problems. Third, the role of ICT in education management is ambiguous, between as a solution to a problem and as a compulsion amidst the limitations of the school institution itself. The findings of this study are helpful as an enrichment in the study of secondary education management disciplines, on the other hand as a form of criticism and input to managers of educational institutions.

Theory and practice in dis-harmony? Toward a praxis ecosystem approach to the public administration and management discipline and profession

This paper explores the interactions between theory and practice and between discipline and profession in the public administration and management community. It argues that it is unhelpful to seek hegemony for either concept or domain in these dyads. Rather it argues for a praxis ecosystem approach that explores the interactions between these elements. It argues that tension and conflict within the praxis ecosystem is natural and to be expected—and may well drive forward both theory and practice and the discipline and profession. The key task with the ecosystem is thus to govern these tensions rather than seek to eradicate them. It ends by exploring what this approach means in practice for praxis ecosystems.

Attributes of the commercial offer of the petrol station network addressed to micro and small road transport enterprises in the Podkarpackie voivodeship

Purpose: The aim of the research will be to identify the structure of the petrol stations network in the Podkarpackie Voivodeship and to indicate the attributes of their commercial offer to the extent necessary to support the decision-making process aimed at selecting the appropriate supplier of transport fuels for the needs of micro and small road transport enterprises. The essence of the research problem will aim at answering questions about the subjective structure of the retail market of petrol stations in the Podkarpackie Voivodship. In addition, its geographical, material and functional structure. Object of the research is the retail market of transport fuels in the Podkarpackie Voivodship, and the subject of the research is the petrol station network operating there. The area of research are the attributes of the commercial offer of the petrol station network addressed to micro and small road transport enterprises. Design/methodology/approach: The research procedure will run through the following stages: 1) indicating the topic, purpose and scope of the research; 2) determination and definition of evaluation criteria; 3) selection of the test sample; 4) measurement; 5) interpretation of the obtained results; 6) final conclusions; 7) dissemination of research results. The research method used is a critical review of the literature and databases, as well as a direct interview. Three criteria were used to evaluate the comercial offer, i.e. economic and financial, organizational and technical, and security. In addition, an interview form was developed. Findings: The implementation of the topic and purpose of the research allowed to indicate the attributes of the commercial offer of the petrol station network addressed to micro and small road transport enterprises in the Podkarpackie Voivodeship. It should be emphasized that the presented research is preliminary. They are the first stage of the main research topic. The purpose of these researches is to indicate the scope and form of cooperation between a retail supplier of liquid fuels and a micro and small enterprise of road transport in the Podkarpackie Voivodeship. The stages of its implementation include: determining the attributes of the commercial offer of the petrol station network in the analyzed region; an indication of the determinants of the choice of a supplier of liquid fuels by the surveyed enterprises; determination of the extent to which the commercial offer of the petrol station network addressed to micro and small road transport enterprises in the Podkarpackie Voivodship reflects the real needs of the market. Originality/value: In this article, the actions taken to achieve the progress of scientific knowledge led to the expansion of knowledge in the discipline of management and quality science in the area of trade systems, their organization and management. The research focused on the areas that have and will have an impact on improving the competitive position of road transport enterprise. Keywords: supplier, liquid fuels, transport. Category of the paper: Research paper.

Перспективи визнання економічних спеціальностей і цифрової оцінки вченого в Україні

Scientific research on the prospects for the development of education and science in Ukraine in the context of European integration and information transformation is considered at almost every scientific conference and is present in government decisions of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine. However, there are still many unsolved questions (and often debatable) about the prospects for recognizing economics specialties in the new system of adaptation to the International Standard for the Classification of Education, which requires detailed revision. Simultaneously, given the positive trends in the development of the digital economy in Ukraine, we believe that it is worth exploring the possibility of developing a methodological approach to the digital assessment of a scientist. The article considers the analysis of economics specialties that were enshrined in the system of higher education in Ukraine before 2015 and further on, taking into account adaptation to international standards. However, blind copying of foreign standards has buried alive the economic science itself, which was based on marketing, accounting and auditing, and finance. Therefore, the publication presents a graphical model of the relationship between economics specialties through the analysis of the fundamental understanding of its individual directions. It is also emphasized that it is necessary to enshrine in the economic science the specialty «Management (by kinds of economic activity)» at the master’s and doctoral levels of higher education. This can be justified by the fact that not all specialists in a particular sector of the economy (educators, employees of health care institutions, etc.), although they are professionals in their field, due to the lack of knowledge in various disciplines of management and economics, can be efficient managers. Management is one of the directions of economic science, the subject of study of which is the search for methods of rational organization of the production system on the basis of marketing, financial and accounting support for the creation and realization of consumer value and obtaining the planned profit. The number of higher education institutions in each region allows creating new and improving traditional educational programs directly for the specific features of regional business. Thus, further research should be aimed at studying individual educational programs of economic specialties in the regions of Ukraine in order to form a national strategy for the development of higher education for subsequent years. Regarding the development of scientific research in the context of the formation of a digital society, we propose to create a web platform for assessing the scientific activities of scientists based on the results of conferences, seminars or forums on the basis of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine (MES) in cooperation with other educational and scientific organizations. The algorithm of actions should be as follows: an educational and scientific organization coordinates with the MES the relevant scheduled conference; a scientific platform is created on the website of the MES, where interested conference participants register personal pages and which are open to other registered participants; the latter send materials to the educational and scientific organization holding the conference; the educational and scientific organization forms a scientific manual in electronic format, each article of which is displayed simultaneously on the personal page of the conference participant; in the future, each registered participant may, if desired, express his own scientifically based comment and rate for this material (0–100 points). Therefore, further scientific research should be aimed at determining the classification criteria in establishing points for scientific material in accordance with the assessment «Excellent, can be implemented (90–100 points)» to «Unsatisfactory, requires significant revision (up to 50 points)».

The Impact of Work-Based Learning in the Development of Advanced Competencies for Postgraduate Apprentices in Management Disciplines

The Impact of Work-Based Learning in the Development of Advanced Competencies for Postgraduate Apprentices in Management Disciplines

Collaborative Decisions in Knowledge Management for Intelligent Cyber-Enterprises

The faster and faster IT integration of various categories of activities - from production to administration, passing through medicine, transport, education, government, etc. - led to important changes in terms of obtaining, storing and using data. On the other hand, the increasingly rapid accumulation of societal challenges has exerted immense pressure on the relatively nascent discipline of knowledge management, which is expected to help address increasingly complex issues, primarily related to decision-making aspects that necessitate the selection and transformation of data into information and knowledge.This article focuses on establishing a framework for developing a collaborative, dynamic, heterogeneous decision-making system that includes both human and cybernetic agents as well as digital twins. Such a system creates and sustains a knowledge management flow that is essential for making informed decisions, achieved by selectively collecting and appropriately transforming data into information.

Interval-Valued Pythagorean Fuzzy Information Aggregation Based on Aczel-Alsina Operations and Their Application in Multiple Attribute Decision Making

The multi-attribute decision-making (MADM) has really become widely utilized in many domains, including management, economics, and other disciplines. It plays a significant role in mainstream decision science. Its main process is the ranking of choices available and selecting the optimal option out of a group of options based on a set of attribute values. Aggregation operators (AOs) play a significant role in MADM techniques to aggregate uncertain and vague information. Aczel Alsina AOs are recently introduced to handle with ambiguous or uncertain information and has their significance. This article aims to generalize the concept “Aczel Alsina AOs of Pythagorean fuzzy sets” (PyFSs) to interval-valued Pythagorean fuzzy (IVPyF) information by utilizing the Aczel-Alsina t-norm (AA-TNM) and t-conorm (AA-TCNM). We developed a series of Aczel-Alsina AOs such as “IVPyF Aczel-Alsina weighted averaging” (IVPyFAAWA), “IVPyF Aczel-Alsina ordered weighted averaging” (IVPyFAAOWA), and “IVPyF Aczel-Alsina hybrid weighted averaging” (IVPyFAAHWA) operators. We also studied the “IVPyF Aczel-Alsina weighted geometric” (IVPyFAAWG) operator. We interpreted certain characteristics of our invented approaches. To check the effectiveness and reliability of our proposed approaches, we establish an illustrative numerical example for the selection of research scientist. The sensitivity analysis of the parameters is also established and their impact on ranking results is analyzed. We illustrated a realistic comparison in which we compare outcomes of exiting methodologies with the consequences of current discussed approaches.

A Study on Influencing Factors towards Online Financial Management Ability among College Students in Guangzhou

With today's rapid expansion of online financial services, college students' online financial management awareness is rapidly improving, as citizens' financial management awareness gradually improves. The purpose of this study is to examine network financial management ability, with the goal of investigating the financial management ability development of college students in the Internet field of vision. College students' network financial management capabilities should include network financial management concepts, network financial ethics, network financial management knowledge, and network financial execution ability, based on a comprehensive perspective of financial management, finance, pedagogy, statistics, and other disciplines, after consulting relevant materials and drawing on the opinions of relevant scholars. And a financial risk control system for the network. Based on the theories used are Cognitive Learning Theory (CLT), perceived risk, financial management theory, Quality Development Theory and Platform Economic Theory, the author conducted a questionnaire survey in certain colleges and universities in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province. The questionnaire's survey objects, as well as the scores for each question, are sorted and examined. Using data analysis shows the current state of network financial management principles, network financial management ethics, network financial management knowledge, network financial execution power, and network financial risk control among college students.

Adoption of Experiential Learning Approach for Validation of Perpetual Motion Machine of First Kind Concept in Engineering Thermodynamics

Educationalists among the globe are innovating and experimenting innovative teaching practices to the students to trigger students involvement, grasp of the concepts and performance. Engaging students in practical and challenging activities is one of the way to engage students in the learning process. The learning through inference drawn from these activities and experience is referred as an experiential learning. Experiential learning has evolved as a superior teaching-learning methodology over conventional classroom teaching. Autonomy in learning to the students and triggering creative thinking in students are the key aspects of experiential learning methodology. Educationalists have adopted experiential learning to science and technology, medical, management and engineering disciplines and is being more popular day by day. This article presents experiential learning model applied to engineering thermodynamics course (subject) for validation of basic thermodynamic concepts. Student validated working of a machine without any work input by reproducing the machine claimed in the videos uploaded on video sharing platforms. Flexible learning system helped students to have proper understanding of basic concepts, laws of thermodynamics and understanding and to improve academic performance. The activity conducted resulted in the improvement in the overall CO attainment by 14.12% along with improvement in the average marks of the students for UT1, UT2 and ESE assessment collectively by more than 55%. Keywords— Experiential learning; learning by doing; engineering thermodynamics; flexible learning framework.

A case and framework for expanding the use of model‐free evidence

A case and framework for expanding the use of model‐free evidence