Email: alison.smart@mbs.ac.uk
Position
Lecturer in Operations Management
Subject area group
Decision Sciences and Operations Management
Biography
Alison Smart joined Manchester Business School in April 2000. Prior to this she spent four years as a research fellow at the University of Edinburgh Management School, working on a project funded under the ESRC Innovation Programme. She has a BSc and DPhil in chemistry and obtained her MBA after spending several years working in Research and Development for major chemical manufacturers.Teaching and Research interests
Teaching: Operations Management and related subjects.Research: supply chain management, with a particular emphasis on the application of technology; operations management issues in SMEs.
Selected Publications
Chapters
"Outsourcing: ethical supply chain issues", in Global Outsourcing Strategies: an international reference on effective outsourcing relationships (eds. P Barrar and R Gervais),Gower Press: Aldershot, Forthcoming, Alison U Smart
"Competitive Advantage Through Investments in Technology: a business process perspective", in Sustainable Development: strategic views supported by measurement, modelling and/or simulation (eds. J L Elohim, E A Stuhler & F.Parra-Lu),Rainer Hampp Verlag, Munich, ISBN 3-8798-8480-3, pp. 123-134, 2000, A D Lloyd, A M McCosh, Alison U Smart and Peter Barrar
"The Tensions Shaping the Emergence of Standard Bodies: the case of a national health informatics standards body", in Prometheus, Vol. 23, 2, pp. 149-166, 2005, R Bunduchi, I Graham, Alison U Smart and R Williams "Does Benchmarking Help?", in International Transactions in Operational Research, Vol. 10, 4, pp. 339-350, 2003, J Ansell, P Moles and Alison U Smart "Incorporating Competitive Advantage into the Process Technology Investment Decision", in International Journal of Manufacturing Technology and Management, Vol. 4, 5, pp. 401-419, 2002, Alison U Smart, Peter Barrar, A M McCosh and A D Lloyd "The Management of Knowledge During Design and Implementation of Process Technologies", in Creativity and Innovation Management, Vol. 8, 2, pp. 100-111, 1999, Alison U Smart, A M McCosh, Peter Barrar and A D Lloyd "Proven Methods for Innovation Management: an executive wishlist", in Creativity and Innovation Management, Vol. 7, 4, pp. 175-192, 1998, A M McCosh, Alison U Smart, Peter Barrar and A D Lloyd "Operations Management in Rural SMEs: an exploratory study", POMS Conference, Boston, USA, 2006, Alison U Smart "A Queuing Model for Intra-port Competition Strategy", DSI Conference, San Antonio, USA, 2006, T L Yip and Alison U Smart "Operations Issues Facing Rural SMEs in Mid Wales", EUROMA 2004 Conference, Insead, Fontainebleau - France, 2004, Alison U Smart "A Model of the Use of Knowledge in Developing Effective Maintenance Policies", PSAM 7 ESREL '04, Berlin, Germany, 2004, Alison U Smart and J Ansell "Institutionalisation of E-business Standards", in Proceedings of the Workshop on Standard Making: A Critical Research Frontier for Information Systems, pp. 1-9, 2003, I Graham, N Pollock, Alison U Smart and R Williams "The Use of Knowledge in Developing Effective Maintenance Policies", ARTS - Advances in Reliability Technology Symposium, Loughborough University, 2003, J Ansell and Alison U Smart "Does Benchmarking Help?", 3rd Edinburgh Conference on Risk: Analysis, Assessment and Management, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2002, J Ansell, P Moles and Alison U Smart "Does Benchmarking Help?", IFORS 16th Triennial Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2002, J Ansell, P Moles and Alison U SmartJournals
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