Niranjan, Tarikere T.; Weaver, Miles W.; Pillai, Sumit - Leicester Business School - 2009
Today it is widely recognized that service operations research lags behind its manufacturingcounterpart (Heineke and Davis, 2006; Ellram, Tate and Billington, 2007; Metters andMarucheck, 2007). As Chase (2004) poignantly noted, “80% of the United States’ economyis in services, but 80% of operations...