Three decades of workload control research: A systematic review of the literature

International Journal of Production Research

Volumn 49, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 6905-6935

  Thürer, Matthias ^a   Stevenson, Mark ^b   Silvaa, Cristovao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Order review and release (ORR); Production planning and control (PPC); Systematic literature review; Workload control (WLC)

Indexed keywords

ACTION RESEARCH; CUSTOMER ENQUIRIES; EMPIRICAL FINDINGS; EXPERIMENTAL TESTING; INPUT AND OUTPUTS; JOB SHOP; LITERATURE REVIEWS; ORDER REVIEW AND RELEASE (ORR); PLANNING STAGES; PRODUCTION PLANNING AND CONTROL (PPC); SIMULATION-BASED; SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THEORETICAL DEVELOPMENT; WORKLOAD CONTROL;

HUMAN ENGINEERING; PLANNING; PRODUCTION CONTROL;

RESEARCH;

EID: 84855789582     PISSN: 00207543     EISSN: 1366588X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207543.2010.519000     Document Type: Review

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