Teaching
- Logistics & Supply Chain Management
- Operation Management
Qualifications
- Ph.D. in Operations Management, Open University, UKHigher Diploma in Teaching English as a Foreign Language, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
- Higher Diploma in Secondary Education, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
- M.B.A. Finance, Wagner College, New York, USA
- B.Sc Economics, City University of New York, New York, USA
- A.A.S Industrial Management, City University of New York, New York USA
- Ph.D. Open University and Rennes School of Business, 2010
- Ph.D. The Open University UK
Professional Development Professional Seminars / Workshops
- 2012: Open University Training Seminar – « How to Effectively Supervise PhD Students », Rennes, France.
- 2006: European Case Clearing House (ECCH) Workshop, Rennes, France.
Professionnal certifications
- Refrigerating System Operating Engineer’s License, 1992 to Present
- High Pressure Boiler Operating Engineer’s License, 1991 to Present
Professionnal membership
- Society of Manufacturing Engineers, 2011
SERVICE
Academic Conference: Discussant
- 2009
The Association on Employment Practices and Principles (AEPP) Seventeenth Annual International Conference, Montreal, Canada, September 23-25
Academic Conference: Moderator / Facilitator
- 2015
ICPEM 2015: XIII International Conference on Production Engineering and Management, June 25-26, Paris, France.
- 2014
The 2014 International Conference on Business, Economics, Management and Marketing
- 2013
21st International Colloquium in Relationship Marketing (ICRM), Rennes, France.
- 2011
The 38th Annual Meeting of the Northeast Business & Economics Association (NBEA), Philadelphia, USA, November 3-5, 2011.
- 2011
Northeast Decision Sciences Institute 2011 Conference Montréal, Canada
Reviewer: Conference Paper
- 2014
19th World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
- 2013
21st International Colloquium in Relationship Marketing (ICRM), Rennes, France.
McNamara, T. (2013) Anonymous Paper Referee for the 21st International Colloquium in Relationship Marketing (ICRM) - 2011
Northeast Decision Sciences Institute 2011 Conference Montréal, Canada.
- 2009
10th International Decision Sciences Institute Conference (IDSI), Nancy, France,.
Reviewer - Article / Manuscript
- 2014
Journal of Enterprise Information Management – Special issue: IT System Innovation Out of Crisis: Lessons from Supply Chain Failures, Natural Disasters.
Research Interest
Trends and issues in Strategic Management and Operations Management
Investigating the performance of production lines through simulation
Work Experience
Academic
- Assistant Professor, Supply Chain Management & Information Systems Academic Area, Rennes School of Business (2010 – Present)
Non-Academic
- Senior Corporate Buyer, A Fortune 500 Energy Company (July, 1985 – April, 2001)
Intellectual Contributions
Refereed Articles - Basic or Discovery Scholarship
You are free to choose…are you? Organisational punishment as a productivity incentive in the social science literature
Auteurs :McNamara , Tom; Meloso, Debrah; Michelotti, Marco; Puncheva-Michelotti, Petya Publié dans :Human Relations, Vol. 75(2) 322–348 Date :2022
The effects of medium and sequence on personality trait assessments in face-to-face and videoconference selection interviews: Implications for HR analytics
Auteurs :Michelotti, M., McColl, R., Puncheva,P., Clarke, R., McNamara, T. Publié dans :Human Resource Management Journal, https://doi.org/10.1111/1748-8583.12425 Date :2021
The Operating Behaviour of Unbalanced, Unpaced Merging Assembly Lines
Auteurs :McNamara, T., Shaaban, S., Sbihi, A. and Laarraf, Z. Publié dans :RAIRO - Operations Research, Vol 55, N° 1, pp 99-113 Date :2021
Risk analysis in the management of a green supply chain.
Auteurs :Zou, Z, Farnoosh, A, McNamara, T. Publié dans :Strategic Change. 2021; 30: 5– 17 Date :2021
Manufacturing SMEs, network governance and global supply chains
Auteurs :Cragg, T., McNamara, T., Descubes, I., Guerin, F. Publié dans :ournal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, Vol. 27 No. 1, pp. 130-147 Date :2020
Recycling waste and upcycling people: a new type of environmentally-motivated social enterprise strategy.
Auteurs :Descubes, I., McNamara, T., Cragg, T. Publié dans :Int. J. Manufacturing Technology and Management, Vol. 32, No. 3, 2018, pp. 270-296 Date :2018
E-marketing communications of trophy hunting providers in Namibia: evidence of ethics and fairness in an apparently unethical and unfair industry?.
Auteurs :Descubes, I., McNamara, T., Claasen, C. Publié dans :Current Issues in Tourism, Volume 21, 2018 - Issue 12, pp. 1349-1354 Date :2018
Lesbians’ assessments of gay advertising in France: not necessarily a case of ‘La Vie en Rose?’.
Auteurs :Descubes, I., McNamara, T., Bryson, D Publié dans :Journal of Marketing Management, Volume 34, Issue 7-8 (2018), pp. 639-665 Date :2018
An ICT-based framework to improve global supply chain integration for final assembly SMES
Auteurs :Cragg, T., McNamara, T. Publié dans :Journal of Enterprise Information Management, Vol. 31 No. 5, 2018, pp. 634-657 Date :2018
Unpaced Merging Lines With Uneven Buffer Allocation.
Auteurs :Shaaban, S., McNamara, T., Dmitriev, V. Publié dans :IFAC-PapersOnLine, Vol. 50, issue 1, pp. 1093-1100 Date :2017
Asymmetrical buffer allocation in unpaced merging assembly lines.
Auteurs :Shaaban, S., McNamara, T., Dmitriev, V Publié dans :Computers & Industrial Engineering, Vol. 109 (2017), pp. 211-220 Date :2017
Fifty years of the bowl phenomenon
Auteurs :McNamara, T., Shaaban, S., Hudson, S. Publié dans :Journal of Manufacturing Systems, Vol. 41, (2016), pp. 1 - 7 Date :2016
Theatre-based learning to foster corporate legacy change.
Auteurs :Descubes, I., & McNamara, T. Publié dans :Journal of Organizational Change Management, Vol. 28, N° 4, 2015, pp. 565-578 Date :2015
The impact of failure, repair and joint imbalance of processing team means & buffer sizes on the performance of unpaced production lines.
Auteurs :Shaaban, S., McNamara, T., & Hudson, S. Publié dans :International Journal of Manufacturing Technology and Management, Vol. 289, Nos. 5/6, pp. 347-365 Date :2015
The performance of unpaced production lines with unbalanced mean operation times and unreliability patterns.
Auteurs :Hudson, S., Shaaben, S. & McNamara, T. Publié dans :Journal of Manufacturing Systems, Vol. 37, N° 1 (2015), pp. 164-172 Date :2015
Unbalanced Lines - where are we now?
Auteurs :Hudson, S., McNamara, T. & Shaaban, S Publié dans :International Journal of Production Research, Vol. 53, N° 6, pp. 1895-1911 Date :2015
An ICT-based framework to improve global supply chain integration for final assembly SMES
Auteurs :Cragg, Tony and Tom McNamara Publié dans :Journal of Enterprise Information Management Date :2015
The Performance of Unpaced Production Lines with Unbalanced Mean Operation Times and Unreliability Patterns
Auteurs :Hudson, Sarah, Sabry Shaaban, and Tom McNamara Publié dans :Journal of Manufacturing Systems Date :2015
The impact of failure, repair and joint imbalance of processing time means & buffer sizes on the performance of unpaced production lines
Auteurs :Shaaban, Sabry , Tom McNamara, and Sarah Hudson Publié dans :International Journal of Manufacturing Technology and Management Date :2015
Theatre-Based Learning to Foster Corporate Legacy Change
Auteurs :Descubes, Irena and Tom McNamara Publié dans :Journal of Organizational Change Management Date :2015
Unbalanced Lines – Where Are We Now?
Auteurs :Hudson, Sarah, Tom McNamara, and Sabry Shaaban Publié dans :International Journal of Production Research Date :2015
Mean Time Imbalance Effects on Unreliable Unpaced Serial Flow Lines.
Auteurs :Shaaban, Sabry, Tom McNamara, and Sarah Hudson Publié dans :Journal of Manufacturing Systems Date :2014
The Effect of Mean-Time and Variability Imbalance in Unreliable Lines.
Auteurs :McNamara, Tom, Sarah Hudson, and Sabry Shaaban Publié dans :Journal européen des systèmes automatisés Date :2014
Simulation of Unbalanced Buffer Allocation in Unreliable Unpaced Production Lines
Auteurs :McNamara, Tom, S. Shaaban, and S. Hudson Publié dans :International Journal of Production Research 51 Date :2013
The Effects of Unbalancing Operation Time Variability on the Performance of Unreliable Lines.
Auteurs :Shaaban, S, T. McNamara, and S. Hudson Publié dans :Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management 24 Date :2013
Unpaced Production Lines with Three Simultaneous Imbalance Sources
Auteurs :McNamara, Tom, Sabry Shaaban, and Sarah Hudson Publié dans :Industrial Management & Data Systems 111. Date :2011
The Effects of Joint Operations Time Means and Variability Unbalance on Production Line Performance.
Auteurs :Shaaban, Sabry and Tom McNamara Publié dans :International Journal of Manufacturing Technology and Management 18 Date :2009
Improving the efficiency of unpaced production lines by unbalancing service time means.
Auteurs :Shaaban, Sabry and T. McNamara Publié dans :International Journal of Operational Research Date :2009
Refereed Articles Contribution to Practice
From Physical Flows to Information Flows: An Evolving Concept of Supply Chain Management.
Auteurs :McNamara, T., Cragg, T. Publié dans :Supply Chain Management Review, 01/02/2016 Date :2016
L'agriculture biologique contribue-t-elle au bien-être ?.
Auteurs :Dufeu, I., Duchaine, S., McNamara, T., Morvan, C. Publié dans :Revue Éthique et Économique, Vol. 13, Issue 1, pp. 39-57 Date :2016
A Survey of the Literature on Assembly Line Balancing as it Relates to the Apparel Industry
Auteurs :McNamara, T. Publié dans :International Journal of Lean Thinking, Vol. 7, Issue 2, pp. 67-79. Date :2016
Getting the Most Out of Your Unpaced Production Line.
Auteurs :McNamara, Tom and S. Shaaban Publié dans :Assembly Magazine Date :2007
Improving the Performance of Your Unpaced Production Line
Auteurs :McNamara, Tom and S. Shaaban Publié dans :Manufactures Monthly Date :2007
Refereed Proceedings Discipline-Based Scholarship
Comportement Entrepreneurial Responsable: Cas de la Feuille d'Erable
Auteurs :Descubes, Irena and Tom McNamara Publié dans :9e Congrès de l'Académie de l'Entrepreneuriat et de l'Innovation, Entrepreuriat Responsable: Pratiques et Enjeux Théoriques Date :2015
Unreliable Production Lines with Simultaneously Unbalanced Operation Time Means, Breakdown and Repair Rates.
Auteurs :Shaaban, Sabry, Tom McNamara, and Sarah Hudson Publié dans :ICPEM 2015: XIII International Conference on Production Engineering and Management Date :2015
The Consumer Engagement Process As It Relates To A Brand's Revival Strategy
Auteurs :Descubes, Irena and Tom McNamara Publié dans :9th International Days of Statistics and Economics at VŠE, Prague, Czech Republic Date :2015
Unreliable Production Lines with Simultaneously Unbalanced Operation Time Means, Breakdown and Repair Rates.
Auteurs :Shaaban, Sabry, Tom McNamara, and Sarah Hudson Publié dans :ICPEM 2015: XIII International Conference on Production Engineering and Management Date :2014
Eco-citizen Social Enterprise Governance by Emotional Management: The Case of Feuille d'Erable
Auteurs :Descubes, Irena and Tom Mcnamara Publié dans :International Days of Statistics and Economics at VSE.Prague,CZ Date :2014
Unbalanced Mean-time and Buffer Effects in Lines Suffering Breakdown.
Auteurs :Shaaban, Sabry, Tom Mcnamara, and Sarah Hudson Publié dans :The 2014 International Conference on Business, Economics, Management and Marketing, Date :2014
Improving the performance of manual production lines through deliberate imbalance: The sweet spot
Auteurs :McNamara, Tom Publié dans :20th European Operations Management Association (EurOMA) Conference Date :2013
Art-based Learning: Catalyst for Change in Corporate Culture
Auteurs :Descubes, Irena and Tom McNamara Publié dans :7th Annual Conference of International Days of Statistics and Economics, Prague, Republic Czech Date :2013
Reliable and Unreliable Unpaced Production Lines with Unbalanced Operation Time Means – A Comparison
Auteurs :Shaaban, Sabry, Sarah Hudson, and Tom McNamara Publié dans :14th IFAC Symposium on Information Control Problems in Manufacturing Date :2012
Performance of Reliable and Unreliable Unpaced Production Lines with Uneven Buffer Allocation
Auteurs :Shaaban, Sabry, Tom McNamara, and Sarah Hudson Publié dans :14th IFAC Symposium on Information Control Problems in Manufacturing Date :2012
The Design of Reliable Unpaced Production Lines with Single and Double Imbalance Sources
Auteurs :Shaaban, Sabry, Tom McNamara, and Ahmed Atil Publié dans :The 38th Annual Meeting of the Northeast Business & Economics Association (NBEA Date :2011
he Impact of Unbalanced Processing Time Means on Unreliable Unpaced Serial Flow Lines
Auteurs :Shaaban, Sabry, Tom McNamara, and Ahmed Atil Publié dans :World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology: WASET Conference Date :2011
The Allocation of Buffer Capacities in Unreliable Unpaced Production Lines Using Simulation
Auteurs :Shaaban, Sabry, Tom McNamara, and Ahmed Atil Publié dans :The 38th Annual Meeting of the Northeast Business & Economics Association (NBEA), Philadelphia, USA Date :2011
The Behaviour of Unpaced Production Lines with Unequal Mean processing Times, Variability, or Buffer Capacities
Auteurs :Shaaban, Sabry , Tom McNamara, Tom McNamara, and Ahmed Atil Publié dans :Northeast Decision Sciences Institute 2011 Annual Conference Date :2011
Unpaced Serial Production Lines with Two Simultaneous Sources of Imbalance – Their Operating Characteristics
Auteurs :Shaaban, Sabry, Tom McNamara, and Ahmed Atil Publié dans :Northeast Decision Sciences Institute 2011 Annual Conference Date :2011
The Operational Performance of Serial Unpaced Production Lines with Simultaneous Mean Processing Time, Variability and Buffer Imbalances
Auteurs :McNamara, Tom and Sabry Shaaban Publié dans :10th International Decision Sciences Institute Conference Date :2009
The Performance of Unpaced Lines with Unequal Buffer Sizes."
Auteurs :Shaaban, Sabry and Tom McNamara Publié dans :The Economic & International Business Research Conference Date :2009
Transient Behaviour of Unbalanced Lines
Auteurs :Shaaban, Sabry and Tom McNamara Publié dans :World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology: WASET Conference Date :2009
Unreliable Flow Lines with Jointly Unequal Operation Time Means, Variabilities and Buffer Sizes.
Auteurs :Shaaban, Sabry and Tom McNamara Publié dans :World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology: WASET Conference Date :2009
Unpaced Production Lines with Unequal Mean Operation Times and Uneven Buffer Capacities: Their Performance.
Auteurs :Shaaban, Sabry and Tom McNamara Publié dans :Seventeenth Annual International Conference Date :2009
Balanced Reliable and Unreliable Manual Production Lines: Their Behaviour and Efficiency.
Auteurs :Shaaban, Sabry and Tom McNamara Publié dans :The Association on Employment Practices and Principles (AEPP) Seventeenth Annual International Conference Date :2009
Learning & Pedagogical Scholarship
Can you please stop talking while I teach? Anglo-Saxon teaching expectations in a French business education environment.
Auteurs :Marsillac, Erika, Don Minday, and Tom McNamara Publié dans :AIB Midwest Conference, Date :2007
Unreliable Production Lines with Simultaneously Unbalanced Operation Time Means, Breakdown and Repair Rates.
Auteurs :Shaaban, Sabry, Tom McNamara, and Sarah Hudson Publié dans :ICPEM 2015: XIII International Conference on Production Engineering and Management Date :2015
Chapters, Cases, Readings, Supplements Case
Chapter:
Auteurs :Cragg, Tony and Tom McNamara Publié dans :Kogan Page Publishers, 1st edition, 384 pages, ISBN 978-1789668216 Date :November 2021
Case Study 5: Private Prisons in the United States: a case of profit at any cost?.
Auteurs :McNamara, T., Descubes, I., Claasen , C. Publié dans :Fritz Allhoff, Alexander Sager (ed.). Business Cases in Ethical Focus. Canada : Broadview Press Ltd, 2019, 320 p pp. 52-60 ISBN 9781554813742 Date :2019
Case Study 8: The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
Auteurs :Claasen, C., McNamara, T. Publié dans :Fritz Allhoff, Alexander Sager (ed.). Business Cases in Ethical Focus. Canada : Broadview Press Ltd, 2019, 320 p pp. 81-88 ISBN 9781554813742 Date :2019
Case Study 9: Dakota Access Pipeline
Auteurs :Claasen, C., McNamara, T., Descubes, I. Publié dans :Fritz Allhoff, Alexander Sager (ed.). Business Cases in Ethical Focus. Canada : Broadview Press Ltd, 2019, 320 p pp. 89-96 ISBN 9781554813742 Date :2019
Case Study 26: Citibank and Collateralized Debt Obligations
Auteurs :McNamara, T., Descubes, I. Publié dans :Fritz Allhoff, Alexander Sager (ed.). Business Cases in Ethical Focus. Canada : Broadview Press Ltd, 2019, 320 p pp. 226-233 ISBN 9781554813742 Date :2019
Case Study 27: Misplaced Incentives: Large-Scale Fraud at Wells Fargo
Auteurs :Descubes, I., McNamara, T., Claasen , C. Publié dans :Fritz Allhoff, Alexander Sager (ed.). Business Cases in Ethical Focus. Canada : Broadview Press Ltd, 2019, 320 p pp. 234-242 ISBN 9781554813742 Date :2019
Case Study 31: Democracy in Business: The Mondragon Workers Cooperative
Auteurs :McNamara, T., Claasen , C., Descubes, I. Publié dans :Fritz Allhoff, Alexander Sager (ed.). Business Cases in Ethical Focus. Canada : Broadview Press Ltd, 2019, 320 p pp. 262-269 ISBN 9781554813742 Date :2019
Chapter 2, Case Study 4: Reaching sinks, dinks and Millennials Worldwide
Auteurs :McNamara, T., Descubes, I. Publié dans :Jobber, D. and Ellis-Chadwick, F.(ed.). Principles and practice of marketing 9th ed. London : McGraw-Hill Education (UK) Ltd, 2019, 885 p. ISBN 978-1526847232 Date :2019
Chapter 9 Case study 17: Nordstrom: Using Service Excellence To Provide A Better Customer Experience
Auteurs :McNamara, T., Descubes, I. Publié dans :Jobber, D. and Ellis-Chadwick, F.(ed.). Principles and practice of marketing 9th ed. London : McGraw-Hill Education (UK) Ltd, 2019, 885 p. ISBN 978-1526847232 Date :2019
Chapter 10 Case study 19: Starbucks Managing customer relationships one cup at a time
Auteurs :McNamara, T., Descubes, I. Publié dans :Jobber, D. and Ellis-Chadwick, F.(ed.). Principles and practice of marketing 9th ed. London : McGraw-Hill Education (UK) Ltd, 2019, 885 p. ISBN 978-1526847232 Date :2019
Chapter 14, Case Study 27: Volvo: Buying a car by simply using an app
Auteurs :McNamara, T., Descubes, I. Publié dans :Jobber, D. and Ellis-Chadwick, F.(ed.). Principles and practice of marketing 9th ed. London : McGraw-Hill Education (UK) Ltd, 2019, 885 p. ISBN 978-1526847232 Date :2019
Chapter 19, Case Study 38: Coca Cola in India: an unstoppable powerhouse or a stumbling giant?
Auteurs :McNamara, T., Descubes, I. Publié dans :Jobber, D. and Ellis-Chadwick, F.(ed.). Principles and practice of marketing 9th ed. London : McGraw-Hill Education (UK) Ltd, 2019, 885 p. ISBN 978-1526847232 Date :2019
Chapter 9 Case 9 Omni-Channel Marketing at Danske Bank: Using Technology to Provide Great Customer Service
Auteurs :McNamara, T., Descubes, I. Publié dans :Fahy, J. and Jobber, D. Foundations of Marketing, 6th ed. London : McGraw-Hill Education / Europe, Middle East & Africa. 2019. ISBN 978-1526847348 Date :2019
Case Study 43: The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
Auteurs :Claasen, C., McNamara, T. Publié dans :Fritz Allhoff, Alexander Sager and Anand Vaidya (dir.), Business in Ethical Focus: An Anthology, 2nd Ed. Canada : Broadview Press Ltd 2016, 750 p. ISBN 978-1554812516 Date :2016
Case Study 19: Citibank and Collateralized Debt Obligations
Auteurs :Descubes, I., McNamara, T. Publié dans :Fritz Allhoff, Alexander Sager and Anand Vaidya (dir.), Business in Ethical Focus: An Anthology, 2nd Ed. Canada : Broadview Press Ltd 2016, 750 p. ISBN 978-1554812516 Date :2016
Namdeb: Debeers' joint venture with the Namibian Government
Auteurs :Claasen, C., McNamara, T., Descubes, I. Publié dans :The Case center, 716-0049-1 Date :2016
Trophy hunting in Namibia: controversial but sustainable? A case study of 'Hunters Namibia Safaris'
Auteurs :McNamara, T., Claasen, C., Descubes, I. Publié dans :The Case center, 716-0053-1 Date :2016
Can IKEA adapt its service experience to India?
Auteurs :McNamara, T., Descubes, I. Publié dans :Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies, Vol. 6, N°1, May 2016 Date :2016
Chapter 19 Case Study: Maybach - The rise, fall, and (possible) rise again of a luxury icon.
Auteurs :McNamara, Tom and Irena Descubes Publié dans :Principles and practice of marketing 8th ed Date :2015
Chapter 9 Case Study: IKEA and Service - Will people in India be happy assembling their own furniture?
Auteurs :McNamara, Tom and Irena Descubes Publié dans :Principles and practice of marketing 8th ed Date :2015
Chapter 21 Case Study: Volvo and Global Marketing Strategy - Fundamentally changing the way cars are marketed and sold
Auteurs :McNamara, Tom and Asha Moore-Mangin Publié dans :Principles and practice of marketing 8th ed., by Jobber, D. and Ellis-Chadwick, F Date :2015
Chapter 16 Case Study: Starbucks and Social Media - It's more than just about the coffee
Auteurs :McNamara, Tom and Asha Moore-Mangin Publié dans :Principles and practice of marketing 8th ed. Date :2015
Chapter 3 Case Study: The Mercurial Behaviour of Millennials
Auteurs :McNamara, Tom and Asha Moore-Mangin Publié dans :Principles and practice of marketing 8th ed Date :2015
Chapter 2 Case Study: SodaStream - Adapting itself to a changing market
Auteurs :McNamara, Tom and Asha Moore-Mangin Publié dans :Principles and practice of marketing 8th ed Date :2015
Chapter 16 Case Study: "Digital Marketing: Gucci – Making Luxury Go Digital.
Auteurs :McNamara, Tom and Asha Moore-Mangin Publié dans :Principles and practice of marketing 8th ed Date :2015
Chapter 9 Case Study: "Nordstrom - A shining example of service excellence.
Auteurs :McNamara, Tom and Asha Moore-Mangin Publié dans :Principles and practice of marketing 8th ed Date :2015
Chapter 15 Case Study: "JCPenney and Direct Marketing: Using something old to improve something new?
Auteurs :McNamara, Tom and Asha Moore-Mangin Publié dans :Principles and practice of marketing 8th ed., Date :2015
Chapter 9 Case Study: Chapter 11 Case Study.
Auteurs :McNamara, Tom and Asha Moore-Mangin Publié dans :Principles and practice of marketing 8th ed Date :2015
Chapter 7 Case Study: IKEA - A unique service experience
Auteurs :McNamara, Tom and Irena Descubes Publié dans :Foundations of Marketing – Global Edition, 5th ed Date :2014
Chapter 4 Case Study: H&M and Social Media - An effective market research too
Auteurs :McNamara, Tom and Irena Descubes Publié dans :Foundations of Marketing – Global Edition, 5th ed Date :2014
Can IKEA adapt its service experience to India?
Auteurs :McNamara, Tom and Irena Descubes Publié dans :Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies Date :2014
Case 19: Airbus' Overstretched Supply Chain - Just How Far Can You Go before Your Supply Chain Snaps?
Auteurs :Marsillac, Erika and Tom McNamara Publié dans :The Supply Chain Management Casebook: Comprehensive Coverage and Best Practices in SCM Date :2013
Case 21: The End of Lean? - Automotive Manufacturers are Rethinking Some Supply Chain Basics.
Auteurs :Marsillac, Erika and Tom McNamara Publié dans :The Supply Chain Management Casebook: Comprehensive Coverage and Best Practices in SCM Date :2013
Case 20: How to Keep Your Food Supply Chain Fresh.
Auteurs :McNamara, Tom and Erika Marsillac Publié dans :The Supply Chain Management Casebook: Comprehensive Coverage and Best Practices in SCM Date :2013
Case 18: Make to Demand with 3-D Printing -The Next Big Thing in Inventory Management?
Auteurs :McNamara, Tom and Erika Marsillac Publié dans :The Supply Chain Management Casebook: Comprehensive Coverage and Best Practices in SCM. Date :2013
Chapter 11 - Reducing Pollution Through Green Logistics.
Auteurs :McNamara, Tom and Erika Marsillac Publié dans :Sustutainability in Supply Chain Management CaseBook Date :2014
Chapter 13 - Strategy Spotlight 13.3: LinkedIn and process reengineering: Better performance than Google or Facebook.
Auteurs :McNamara, Tom and Helena Gonzalez Publié dans :Strategic Management - Global Edition, 7th ed Date :2014
Chapter 11 - Strategy Spotlight 11.7: Employee empowerment at GE
Auteurs :McNamara, Tom and Irena Descubes Publié dans :Strategic Management - Global Edition, 7th ed Date :2014
Chapter 10 - Issues for Debate: Supercell has the world's weakest CEO
Auteurs :McNamara, Tom and Asha Moore-Mangin Publié dans :Strategic Management - Global Edition, 7th ed Date :2014
Chapter 2 - Learning From Mistakes
Auteurs :Descubes, Irena and Tom McNamara Publié dans :Strategic Management - Global Edition, 7th ed Date :2014
Chapter 12 – Issues for Debate: Citizen-riders speak up and crowsource the Pibal
Auteurs :Descubes, Irena and Tom McNamara Publié dans :Strategic Management - Global Edition, 7th ed., by Dess, G. et al, McGraw Date :2014
Chapter 9 – Issues for Debate: Better Corporate Governance: If CEOs can't do it, shareholders will
Auteurs :Gonzalez, Helena and Tom McNamara, Publié dans :Strategic Management - Global Edition, 7th ed Date :2014
Chapter 2 Closing Case: France's troubled economy.
Auteurs :Cragg, Tony and Tom Mcnamara Publié dans :International Business – Global Edition, 10th ed Date :2014
Chapter 10 – Opening Case: Are world currency markets being manipulated? Something fishy with foreign exchange.
Auteurs :McNamara, Tom and Agata Mirowska Publié dans :International Business – Global Edition, 10th ed., by Hill, C., McGraw Hill Publishers Date :2014
Chapter 15 Opening Case: Sulky Burel in Russia.
Auteurs :Cragg, Tony and Tom Mcnamara Publié dans :Global Edition, 10th ed., by Hill, C., McGraw – Hill Publishers Date :2014
Chapter 12 Opening Case: Restrictions on capital flows are growing. But are all capital flows alike?
Auteurs :McNamara, Tom and Irena Descubes Publié dans :International Business – Global Edition, 10th ed. Date :2014
Chapter 10 Management Focus: Wal-Mart Loses $680 million due to Failure to Hedge Against the Dollar.
Auteurs :Mirowska, Agata and Tom Mcnamara Publié dans :International Business – Global Edition, 10th ed. Date :2014
Chapter 9 – Management Focus: EU takes aim at Google over anti-trust accusations.
Auteurs :McNamara, Tom and Agata Mirowska Publié dans :International Business – Global Edition, 10th ed Date :2014
Chapter 2 – Management Focus: JP Morgan Chase is under investigation for possible wrong doing
Auteurs :McNamara, Tom and Caroline Michel Publié dans :International Business – Global Edition, 10th ed Date :2014
Chapter 14 Opening Case: Reorganization at EADS.
Auteurs :McNamara, Tom and Asha Moore Publié dans :Global Edition, 10th ed., by Hill, C., McGraw – Hill Publishers. Date :2014
Chapter 10 Country Focus: Abenomics and Japan. Can Prime Minister Abe's policies prevent a third 'lost' decade?
Auteurs :Mirowska, Agata and Tom McNamara Publié dans :International Business – Global Edition, 10th ed Date :2014
Chapter 6 – Closing Case: Morocco's Growing Aviation Industry
Auteurs :Michel, Caroline and Tom McNamara Publié dans :International Business – Global Edition, 10th ed Date :2014
Chapter 9 - Strategy Spotlight 9.4: Radical activism and Nestlé: How the company is being forced to re-think its strategy and policies
Auteurs :Moore - Mangin, A. & McNamara, T Publié dans :Strategic Management - Global Edition, 7th ed Date :2013
Chapter 5 – Learning from Mistakes: 'The story of how Showrooming' almost destroyed 'Best Buy' and what they did to fight back
Auteurs :Claasen, C. & McNamara, T Publié dans :Strategic Management - Global Edition, 7th ed., by Dess, G. et al, McGraw – Hill Publishers. Date :2013
Chapter 8 – Issues for Debate: Rebranding the city of Košice: From industrial eye sore to hotbed of creativity?
Auteurs :Descubes, I. & McNamara, T. Publié dans :Strategic Management - Global Edition, 7th ed., by Dess, G. et al, McGraw – Hill Publishers. Date :2013
Chapter 11 - Strategy Spotlight 11.8: The fracking industry: Is it really clean energy?
Auteurs :McNamara, T. & Marsillac, E Publié dans :Strategic Management - Global Edition, 7th ed Date :2013
Chapter 2 - Strategy Spotlight 2.3: The Future of Energy: Scenario planning at Shell
Auteurs :McNamara, T. & Marsillac, E Publié dans :Strategic Management - Global Edition, 7th ed., by Dess, G. et al, Mcgraw – Hill Publishers. Date :2013
Chapter 1 - Strategy Spotlight 1.6: Back to (manufacturing) basics for General Electric
Auteurs :McNamara, T. & Marsillac, E. Publié dans :Strategic Management - Global Edition, 7th ed., by Dess, G. et al, Mcgraw – Hill Publishers Date :2013
Chapter 1 - Learning from Mistakes: Microsoft hits another bump in the road
Auteurs :McNamara, T. & Marsillac, E. Publié dans :Strategic Management - Global Edition, 7th ed Date :2013
Chapter 6 - Issues for Debate: Is Microsoft finally becoming a vertically integrated Company?
Auteurs :McNamara, T. & Gonzalez, H Publié dans :Strategic Management - Global Edition, 7th ed., by Dess, G. et al, Mcgraw – Hill Publishers. Date :2013
Chapter 11 - Strategy Spotlight 11.9: "The IKEA way or the IWAY
Auteurs :McNamara, T. & Descubes, I Publié dans :Strategic Management - Global Edition, 7th ed Date :2013
Chapter 11 - Issues for Debate: Ethically made clothing. You wear it but how do you really know it's been made ethically
Auteurs :McNamara, T. & Descubes, I. Publié dans :Strategic Management - Global Edition, 7th ed., by Dess, G. et al, Mcgraw – Hill Publishers. Date :2013
Chapter 3 - Learning from Mistakes - Mercedes Benz and the failure of the Maybach: A question of too much luxury or not enough?
Auteurs :McNamara, T. & Descubes, I Publié dans :Strategic Management - Global Edition, 7th ed Date :2013
Chapter 8 - Strategy Spotlight 8.5: "From 0 to $10 Billion. Young Chinese tech upstart "Xiaomi" has its eyes on Apple.
Auteurs :McNamara, T. & Claasen, C Publié dans :Strategic Management - Global Edition, 7th ed., by Dess, G. et al, McGraw – Hill Publishers Date :2013
Chapter 10 - Strategy Spotlight 10.5: National Geographic: Saving the planet is its strategy.
Auteurs :Descubes, I. & McNamara, T. Publié dans :Strategic Management - Global Edition, 7th ed., by Dess, G. et al, McGraw – Hill Publishers. Date :2013
Chapter 11 - Learning from Mistakes - GlaxoSmithKline's problems in China: Not what the doctor ordered.
Auteurs :McNamara, T. & Descubes, I Publié dans :Strategic Management - Global Edition, 7th ed., by Dess, G. et al, McGra. Date :2013
Chapter 11 - Learning from Mistakes - GlaxoSmithKline's problems in China: Not what the doctor ordered
Auteurs :McNamara, T. & Descubes, I Publié dans :Strategic Management - Global Edition, 7th ed., Date :2013
Chapter 5 - Strategy Spotlight 5.4: How Apple uses its 'ecosystem' to give Mac an advantage over Windows
Auteurs :Gonzales, H. & McNamara, T. Publié dans :Strategic Management - Global Edition, 7th ed., by Dess, G. et al, McGraw – Hill Publishers. Date :2013
Chapter 9 – Issues for Debate: Better Corporate Governance: If CEOs can't do it, shareholders will!
Auteurs :Gonzalez, H. & McNamara, T. Publié dans :Strategic Management - Global Edition, 7th ed., by Dess, G. et al, McGraw – Hill Publishers. Date :2013
Chapter 5 - A Very Unconventional Energy Source.
Auteurs :McNamara, T. & Truong, Y Publié dans :International Business – International Edition, by Hill 9th ed., McGraw - Hill. McGraw Hill. Date :2012
Chapter 5: "Corruption and Class Conflict in China
Auteurs :Truong, Y. & McNamara, T Publié dans :International Business – International Edition - Hill 9th ed., McGraw - Hill. McGraw Hill. Date :2012
Chapter 5: Mainstreaming Microcredit via the Internet.
Auteurs :Truong, Y. & McNamara, T Publié dans :International Business – International Edition - by Hill 9th ed., McGraw - Hill. McGraw Hill. Date :2012
Chapter 5: The Emerald Isle Is Getting Greener.
Auteurs :McNamara, T., Marsillac, E., & Dufeu, I. Publié dans :International Business – International Edition - by Ball 13th ed., McGraw - Hill. McGraww-Hill. Date :2012
Chapter 17: So you want to be an Expat?
Auteurs :McNamara, T. & Marsillac, E Publié dans :International Business – International Edition - by Ball 13th ed., McGraw - Hill. McGraw Hill. Date :2012
Danone: A Glocal Firm.
Auteurs :Duchaine, S., Dufeu, I., & McNamara, T Publié dans :International Business – International Edition Date :2012
Chapter 8: The Swiss National Bank: Not running like clockwork.
Auteurs :McNamara, T. & Descubes, I Publié dans :International Business – International Edition - by Ball 13th ed Date :2012
Chapter 8: Islamic Banking: Say hello to your friendly neighbourhood religious banker.
Auteurs :McNamara, T. & Descubes, I Publié dans :International Business – International Edition - by Ball 13th ed Date :2012
Chapter 13: Budweiser: Would a Bud by any other name still taste just as sweet?
Auteurs :Descubes, I. & McNamara, T Publié dans :International Business – International Edition, by Ball 13th ed Date :2012
Chapter 13: Walmart's joint venture in India: A marriage of love or convenience.
Auteurs :McNamara, T. & Descubes, I Publié dans :International Business – International Edition Date :2012
Chapter 2: Exercising Strategy - Attention shoppers: Nervous breakdown in progress on aisle
Auteurs :McNamara, T. & Descubes, I Publié dans :Human Resources Management – International Edition Date :2012
Chapter 4: Evidence Based HR - Don't feel like going to work today? Not a problem. Human Resources Management
Auteurs :McNamara, T. & Descubes, I Publié dans :International Edition, by Noe 8th ed Date :2012
Chapter 5: Exercising Strategy - Do you need a compliant labour force willing to work 7 days a week for pennies a day? Call us.
Auteurs :McNamara, T. & Descubes, I Publié dans :Human Resources Management – International Edition Date :2012
Chapter 11: Managing People - Porsche: Where high performance meets low cost labour.
Auteurs :McNamara, T. & Descubes, I Publié dans :Human Resources Management – International Edition, by Noe 8th ed Date :2012
Chapter 1: Exercising Strategy - Danone: The power of people
Auteurs :McNamara, T., Duchaine, S., & Dufeu, I Publié dans :Human Resources Management – International Edition, by Noe 8th ed Date :2012
Chapter 11: Pay Structure Decisions - Oil, diamonds and ... computers? The emergence of a new cartel
Auteurs :McNamara, T. & Descubes, I Publié dans :Human Resources Management – International Edition, by Noe 8th ed Date :2012
Chapter 12: Recognizing Employee Contributions with Pay - Carrots and sticks aren't cutting it anymore!
Auteurs :Descubes, I. & McNamara, T Publié dans :Human Resources Management – International Edition, by Noe 8th ed. Date :2012
The Analysis and Design of Work - Daily stand-up meetings: an agile management tool
Auteurs :Descubes, I. & McNamara, T Publié dans :Human Resources Management – International Edition, by Noe 8th ed Date :2012
Chapter 2: Strategic HRM: Control Vs Commitment.
Auteurs :Asha, M. & McNamara, T Publié dans :Human Resources Management – International Edition, by Noe 8th ed Date :2012
Presentations of Refereed Papers International
An Investigation into the Status of the Relationship between Organizational Punishment and Productivity
Auteurs :McNamara, Tom , Debrah Meloso, Marco Michelotti, and Petya Puncheva Publié dans :the Social Science Literature." (in press) The British Academy of Management BAM2019 Conference, Aston University, United Kingdom, 3-5 September, 2019 Date :2019
Citizen Social Entrepreneurship and Gen Y: A Hybrid Business Model. A Case Study of "MakeSense.org
Auteurs :Descubes, Irena and Tom McNamara. Publié dans :12th international days of statistics and economics , Prague, Czech Republic, September 2018 Date :2018
A New Application of the Internal Model Control Principle
Auteurs :Gregory, Mark and Tom McNamara, Publié dans :OR Society OR59 Annual Conference 2017, Loughborough, United Kingdom, September 2017 Date :2017
Unpaced Merging Lines With Uneven Buffer Allocation
Auteurs :Shaaban, Sabry , Tom McNamara, and V. Dmitriev. Publié dans :20th World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC 2017), Toulouse, France, July 2017 Date :2017
SMEs versus listed companies: on equal footing when confronted with M&As organizational culture integration challenge?
Auteurs :Descubes, Irena and Tom McNamara. Publié dans :10th international days of statistics and economics, Prague, Czech Republic, September 2016 Date :2016
Unpaced Merging Lines With Uneven Buffer Allocation
Auteurs :Dmitriev, Viatcheslav , S. Shaaban, T. McNamara, and E. Marsillac Publié dans :19th International Conference on Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Paris, France, August 2016 Date :2016
Ethical Discourse in a contentious industry: trophy hunting in Namibia
Auteurs :Claasen, Cyrlene , Irena Descubes, and Tom Mcnamara Publié dans :EGOS , Naples, Italy, July 2016 Date :2016
The Operating Behaviour of Unbalanced Unpaced Merging Assembly Lines
Auteurs :S. Shaaban, T. McNamara, S. Hudson. Publié dans :ICORFE 2016, International Conference on Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Paris, France, June 2016 Date :2016
The consumer engagement process as it relates to a brand's revival strategy
Auteurs :Descubes, Irena and Tom McNamara. Publié dans :9th International days of statistics and economics, Prague, Czech Republic, September 2015 Date :2015
Comportement Entrepreneurial Responsable : Cas de la Feuille d'Erable
Auteurs :Descubes, Irena and Tom McNamara. Publié dans :9e Congrès de l'Académie de l'Entrepreneuriat et de l'Innovation, Entrepreuriat Responsable: Pratiques et Enjeux Théoriques, Nantes, France, May 2015 Date :2015
Unreliable Production Lines with Simultaneously Unbalanced Operation Time Means, Breakdown and Repair Rates
Auteurs :Shaaban, Sabry, Tom McNamara, and Sarah Hudson Publié dans :ICPEM 2015: XIII International Conference on Production Engineering and Management Date :2015
Unbalanced Mean-time and Buffer Effects in Lines Suffering Breakdown
Auteurs :Shaaban, Sabry, Tom Mcnamara, and Sarah Hudson Publié dans :The 2014 International Conference on Business, Economics, Management and Marketing Date :2014
Improving the performance of manual production lines through deliberate imbalance: The sweet spot
Auteurs :McNamara, Tom Publié dans :20th European Operations Management Association (EurOMA) Conference, Dublin, Ireland Date :2013
The Allocation of Buffer Capacities in Unreliable Unpaced Production Lines Using Simulation
Auteurs :Shaaban, Sabry, Tom McNamara, and Ahmed Atil Publié dans :The 38th Annual Meeting of the Northeast Business & Economics Association (NBEA), Philadelphia, USA Date :2011
The Design of Reliable Unpaced Production Lines with Single and Double Imbalance Sources
Auteurs :Shaaban, Sabry, Tom McNamara, and Ahmed Atil Publié dans :The 38th Annual Meeting of the Northeast Business & Economics Association Date :2011
The Impact of Unbalanced Processing Time Means on Unreliable Unpaced Serial Flow Lines
Auteurs :Shaaban, Sabry, Tom McNamara, and Ahmed Atil Publié dans :International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Systems Management Date :2011
The Behaviour of Unpaced Production Lines with Unequal Mean processing Times, Variability, or Buffer Capacities
Auteurs :Shaaban, Sabry, Tom McNamara, and Ahmed Atil Publié dans :Northeast Decision Sciences Institute 2011 Annual Conference, Montréal, Canada Date :2011
Unpaced Serial Production Lines with Two Simultaneous Sources of Imbalance – Their Operating Characteristics
Auteurs :Shaaban, Sabry, Tom McNamara, and Ahmed Atil Publié dans :Northeast Decision Sciences Institute 2011 Annual Conference Date :2011
The Operational Performance of Serial Unpaced Production Lines with Simultaneous Mean Processing Time, Variability and Buffer Imbalances
Auteurs :McNamara, Tom and Sabry Shaaban Publié dans :10th International Decision Sciences Institute Conference Date :2009
The Performance of Unpaced Lines with Unequal Buffer Sizes
Auteurs :Shaaban, Sabry and Tom McNamara Publié dans :The Economic & International Business Research Conference Date :2009
Transient Behaviour of Unbalanced Lines
Auteurs :Shaaban, Sabry and Tom McNamara Publié dans :The International Conference on Systems Engineering and Engineering Management Date :2009
Unreliable Flow Lines with Jointly Unequal Operation Time Means, Variabilities and Buffer Sizes
Auteurs :Shaaban, Sabry and Tom McNamara Publié dans :The International Conference on Systems Engineering and Engineering Management Date :2009
Balanced Reliable and Unreliable Manual Production Lines: Their Behaviour and Efficiency.
Auteurs :Shaaban, Sabry and Tom McNamara Publié dans :The Association on Employment Practices and Principles (AEPP) Seventeenth Annual International Conference Date :2009
Unpaced Production Lines with Unequal Mean Operation Times and Uneven Buffer Capacities: Their Performance
Auteurs :Shaaban, Sabry and Tom McNamara Publié dans :The Association on Employment Practices and Principles (AEPP) Seventeenth Annual International Conference Date :2009
Presentations of Non-Refereed Papers - International
An Investigation into the Operating Characteristics of Unbalanced Manual Serial Production Lines. Network of International Business Schools
Auteurs :McNamara, Tom Publié dans :10th International Conference / Doctoral Colloquium, the Rennes Sc, Rennes, France. Date :2005
Presentations of Non-Refereed Papers - Regional
The United States, Globalization and the Current Financial Crisis.
Auteurs :McNamara, Tom Publié dans :Socio-Cultural Conference on "The Challenges of Globalization", November 12 to 17, 2012 held at Lycée La Touche, Ploërmel, France, Ploërmel, France Date :2012
