Per­form­ance Man­age­ment in Op­er­a­tions

Course content

Performance management is concerned with how managers inside the focal firm and in the wider supply network may apply different measurement practices and management accounting technologies to make strategic oriented design decisions and to control their supply networks.

The overall aim of the course is to develop student's competencies in understanding, developing and reflecting on knowledge of theoretical and practical relevance in and around performance management in operations, buyer-supplier relationships and supply chains.

Resting on an economic rationale, operations management theory, management accounting theory and social- and organisational theories, the course explores three main areas of operations- and supply chain management practice: Measurement and evaluation practices, costing practices and decision making practices.

To achieve the overall aim, an important part of the course is to enable students to provide an in-depth study of a problem of practical and scientific relevance to the area of performance management in operations and supply networks. A central part of the course is therefore also a continued reflection on the academic method, conceptual research, including a literature review, model generating research and reflections.