Browsing by Author "Eliasson, Janice B."

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    Active Learning in an Undergraduate Management Science Course Through the Use of a Mobile Computer Lab
    (Inderscience Publishers, 2009) Bischak, Diane; Eliasson, Janice B.; Snider, Brent R.
    Our business school’s undergraduate degree program includes a required spreadsheet management science course taught at the third-year level. Employers, faculty, and students consistently indicated that this course was not successful in teaching management science or even basic spreadsheet modeling skills. To improve students’ understanding and retention of the course content, we purchased and implemented a “mobile computer lab” that could be set up in a regular classroom. We discuss how the lab supported a change to active learning, in which informal student groups would “discover” management science techniques, and we provide some examples of the exercises we have incorporated in the course. For instructors who are interested in implementing a mobile lab, we also provide details on the infrastructure of the lab, costs, software and hardware security, and classroom logistics.
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    Factors affecting the evolution of manufacturing in Canada: an historical perspective
    (Elsevier, 2007) Balakrishnan, Jaydeep; Eliasson, Janice B.; Sweet, Timothy R.C.
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    Globalization and Focus in FT-50 OSCM Journals, 1952-2018: Implications for Academia
    (IUP Publications, 2021-11) Balakrishnan, Jaydeep; Kenworthy, Thomas P.; Cheng, Chun H.; Eliasson, Janice B.
    The study analysis enhances our understanding of the nature of Operations and Supply Chain Management (OSCM) authorship, scholarship globalization, international collaboration activity, research topics and trends, and research funding. Thus the authors expect the findings to be relevant to a variety of stakeholders including doctoral students, junior faculty, promotion and tenure committees, and business school administrators. For example, it has to be recognized that emphasizing publications in only the journals examined in this paper can be a risky strategy for those faculty in tenure track positions. Further it must be recognized that this strategy can be resource intensive for business schools.