Summary
Elwood Spencer Buffa, a pioneer in production and operations management (P/OM), passed away in the summer of 2005, leaving his legacy behind. During his academic career Buffa made lasting contributions to teaching and research of P/OM. We review those contributions and their impact on the evolution of the P/OM discipline.
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Elwood Buffa's Pioneering Contributions to Production and Operations Management
1. Introduction
Elwood S. Buffa entered the academic arena when the discipline of production and operations management was in its infancy. It was fragmented, but was growing rapidly under several areas such as industrial engineering, human resources management, operations research, management science, and so forth. Buffa was a pioneer in integrating the discipline through his books. The first three editions of his textbook, Modern Production Management (Buffa 1961a, 1965, 1969), played a major role in the evolution of an integrated and coherent discipline that has come to be known as production and operations management (P/OM). Detailed coverage of the genesis and impact of this book is available in Singhal, Singhal, and Starr (2006). Although P/OM has existed...See the full content of this document
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