Group Coursework

1 - Oral assessment and presentation - 30

Individual Written Report 

2 - Written assignment (including essay) - 70

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1. From production to services: managing resources in OM 
2. Incentives and contracts: understanding coordination and the bullwhip effect  
3. Supply chain management (including buyer-supplier (1 session))
4. Managing operations and supply chains risks 
5. Sustainable operations and supply chains 
6. Applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning in operations AI/ML  
7. Healthcare operations and supply chains

Feedback is provided in a number of ways throughout your module. This includes feedback you receive during teaching from both peers and lecturers and that provided for formative assessment. Following an assessment, you will be given your marks and feedback in line with the assessment regulations and policy. More information on the timing and type of feedback that will be provided for each assessment will be available from the module leader. <a href='https://www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/governance/policies/student-policies-and-regulations'>https://www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/governance/policies/student-policies-and-regulations</a>

This module will support the development of all the graduate attributes. Your module leader will provide you with information about how your learning, teaching and assessment activities support your development of these attributes. The graduate attributes are: - Always learning - Engaged in the world - Technical and digital - Connected Professional - Creating Impact

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Supply base complexity in times of crisis: moderating the negative impact of the Russia–Ukraine war

International Journal of Operations & Production Management, 45(13), pp. 204-232. 

 International Journal of Operations & Production Management,

On the multiresource flexible job‐shop scheduling problem with arbitrary precedence graphs

 Production and Operations Management, 32(7), pp. 2322-2330

 Production and Operations Management,

Beyond Retail Stores: Managing Product Proliferation along the Supply Chain

Production and Operations Management

Sustainable operations management

 Production and operations management, 14(4), pp. 482-492.

Production and operations management

Insights into service operations management: a research agenda.

Production and Operations management, 12(2), pp.145-164.

Production and Operations management

 On theory in operations management.

Journal of Operations Management, 17(1), pp. 97-113

Journal of Operations Management

 Information distortion in a supply chain: the bullwhip effect

Management science, 50(12_supplement), pp. 1875-1886

 Management science

Radical innovations as supply chain disruptions? A paradox between change and stability.

Journal of Supply Chain Management, 59(3), pp. 3-19

Journal of Supply Chain Management

Buyer-supplier currency exchange rate flexibility contracts in global supply chains.

European Journal of Operational Research, 288(2), pp. 420-435

 European Journal of Operational Research

A framework for optimal recruitment of temporary and permanent healthcare workers in highly uncertain environments

uropean Journal of Operational Research, 308(2), pp. 768-781

European Journal of Operational Research

An Empirical Analysis of the Effect of Supply Chain Disruptions on Long‐Run Stock Price Performance and Equity Risk of the Firm

Reducing the Risk of Supply Chain Disruptions

MIT Sloan Management Review

SMM945 - Emerging Topics and Methods in OM

SMM945-PRD2-PER-ALV1

When needed, the session will start with your lecturer reviewing core concepts and methodologies appliable to that week’s topic. You will be assigned a number of articles to read and reflect on for each session. You will be asked contribute to the module through actively participating within the class setting in discussing the assigned readings and participating in group work. You will be asked to relate to and draw upon your knowledge and experiences and share these with others. Key learning and teaching resources will be put on the module website on Moodle In the independent study time you will be encouraged and supported by lecturers to read widely and in depth around particular topics and to critically share your understanding and experience with others in person or by using the online forum on Moodle.

Emerging Topics and Methods in OM

Critique existing research using substantive and relevant arguments.

Skills

Apply appropriate methodology depending on the research question and the field’s evolution. 

Critically and systematically evaluate key theories and perspectives in OM.

Knowledge

Identify and articulate important and relevant research gaps in the field.

Identify different research methods needed for building, testing, validating different research questions.

Analyze how different research paradigms influence the selection of research methods and data interpretation

Values and attitudes

Develop a personal publication plan that maps out the essential steps for contributing to top-tier management journals

Critically reflect on the ethical dimensions and responsibilities inherent in one’s own research practice 