Title: Impacts and relationships between three evolving disciplines

Authors: Anders Drejer, David Bennett, Amrik Sohal

Addresses: Center for Industrial Production, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark. Technology and Operations Management Research Group, Aston Business School, Birmingham, UK. Department of Management, Monash University, Australia

Abstract: This paper is concerned with three evolving disciplines, namely, Management of Technology (MoT), Operations Management (OM) and Supply Chain Management (SCM). These three disciplines have emerged at different times, SCM being the most recent, although they also seem to be concerned, at least in some part, with the same managerial problem areas. Based on this underlying assumption, the paper lays the ground for this special issue of the International Journal of Technology Management, which is devised to provide a platform for discussion concerning the impacts, relationships and possible synergies between the three disciplines that very much seem to be driving the attention of a lot of recent management thinking.

Keywords: technology management; interdisciplinary study; comparison.

DOI: 10.1504/IJTM.2002.002995

International Journal of Technology Management, 2002 Vol.23 No.1/2/3, pp.2-20

Published online: 09 Jul 2003 *

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