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Behavioral operations management: a blind spot and a research program

Behavioral operations management: a blind spot and a research program
Behavioral operations management: a blind spot and a research program

Behavioral operations management, or simply behavioral operations (BOps), aims at understanding the decision-making of managers and at using this understanding to generate interventions that improve the operation of the supply chain. To do so, BOps imports knowledge from a number of fields such as economics, psychology and other social and behavioral sciences. We point out a blind spot in this knowledge: In BOps, the heuristics that people use are typically, although not always, viewed as a liability. The issue with this view is that it does not explain when and in what way heuristics can be an asset. We propose, as a research program for BOps, uncovering the conditions under which the heuristics that supply chain managers use are an asset, as well as the conditions under which they are a liability. We briefly discuss some research on heuristics in BOps and show how the study of quantitative models of heuristics can complement it.

Behavioral operations, Behavioral operations management, Behavioral supply management, Conceptual theory development, Economics, Heuristics, Human judgment and decision-making, Modelling
1523-2409
3-7
Katsikopoulos, Konstantinos V.
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Gigerenzer, Gerd
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Katsikopoulos, Konstantinos V.
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Gigerenzer, Gerd
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Katsikopoulos, Konstantinos V. and Gigerenzer, Gerd (2013) Behavioral operations management: a blind spot and a research program. Journal of Supply Chain Management, 49 (1), 3-7. (doi:10.1111/j.1745-493x.2012.03285.x).

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Behavioral operations management, or simply behavioral operations (BOps), aims at understanding the decision-making of managers and at using this understanding to generate interventions that improve the operation of the supply chain. To do so, BOps imports knowledge from a number of fields such as economics, psychology and other social and behavioral sciences. We point out a blind spot in this knowledge: In BOps, the heuristics that people use are typically, although not always, viewed as a liability. The issue with this view is that it does not explain when and in what way heuristics can be an asset. We propose, as a research program for BOps, uncovering the conditions under which the heuristics that supply chain managers use are an asset, as well as the conditions under which they are a liability. We briefly discuss some research on heuristics in BOps and show how the study of quantitative models of heuristics can complement it.

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Published date: 1 January 2013
Keywords: Behavioral operations, Behavioral operations management, Behavioral supply management, Conceptual theory development, Economics, Heuristics, Human judgment and decision-making, Modelling

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Local EPrints ID: 441488
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/441488
ISSN: 1523-2409
PURE UUID: cb444602-253b-49e6-87a4-09b7e3eb901f
ORCID for Konstantinos V. Katsikopoulos: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-9572-1980

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Last modified: 17 Mar 2024 03:44

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Author: Gerd Gigerenzer

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