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LOOKING AHEAD BY LOOKING BACK: SWIFT,EVEN FLOW IN THE HISTORY OF MANUFACTURING
Authors:ROGER W SCHMENNER
Institution:Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202, USA

Roger W. Schmenner is the Richard M. and Myra Louise Buskirk Professor of Manufacturing Management at the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University. He serves as the Associate Dean—Indianapolis Programs and as co-director of Indiana University's federally funded CIBER (Center for International Business Education and Research). He has also held faculty appointments at Duke, Harvard, and Yale, and two visiting appointments at the International Management Development Institute (IMD) in Lausanne, Switzerland (August 1986–July 1987, January 1992–July 1993). He was the president of the Production and Operations Management Society during 1997. Schmenner holds an A.B. degree from Princeton (1969) and a Ph.D. from Yale (1973), both in economics. He and his wife, Barbara, live in Carmel, Indiana. They have two sons.

Abstract:Manufacturing history is too often neglected in operations management and its lessons lost. Its usefulness for testing theory is under-appreciated. This paper uses critical aspects of the history of manufacturing to provide support for the Theory of Swift, Even Flow as an explanation of productivity gain. The rise of Britain in the Industrial Revolution and the rapid overtaking of Britain by the United States and Germany are argued to be thoroughly consistent with Swift, Even Flow, thereby vindicating both theory and the usefulness of history.
Keywords:PRODUCTIVITY  THEORY  MANUFACTURING HISTORY
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