Since Daniel Steele’s 1975 seminal publication on schedule nervousness, academic researchers and corporate operations alike have deepened and expanded related research, both with direct intent to examine schedule nervousness (a.k.a. variation, volatility, or instability) or tangentially in...

Product launch - an event when a new product debuts for production in a plant - is an important phase in product development. But launches disrupt manufacturing operations resulting in productivity losses. Using data from North-American automotive plants from years 1999-2007, we estimate that a...

In When Good Jobs Go Bad, Jeffrey Rothstein looks at the impact of globalization on workers in the North American auto industry, revealing that globalization has had a deleterious effect on even the most valued of blue-collar jobs. Rothstein shows how the consolidation of the Mexican and...