Publications Database

Welcome to the new Schulich Peer-Reviewed Publication Database!

The database is currently in beta-testing and will be updated with more features as time goes on. In the meantime, stakeholders are free to explore our faculty’s numerous works. The left-hand panel affords the ability to search by the following:

  • Faculty Member’s Name;
  • Area of Expertise;
  • Whether the Publication is Open-Access (free for public download);
  • Journal Name; and
  • Date Range.

At present, the database covers publications from 2012 to 2020, but will extend further back in the future. In addition to listing publications, the database includes two types of impact metrics: Altmetrics and Plum. The database will be updated annually with most recent publications from our faculty.

If you have any questions or input, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

 

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Miller, J.W., Tenhiälä, A. and Rungtusanatham, M. (2018). "ERP System Versus Stand‐Alone Enterprise Applications in the Mitigation of Operational Glitches", Decision Sciences, 49(3), 407-444.

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Abstract Business function‐specific stand‐alone enterprise applications (SEAs) are displacing functionally integrated enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, despite strong empirical support for the business benefits of the latter. This study explores the conditions under which it may be more effective to use a set of SEAs instead of a single‐suite ERP system, and vice versa. Based on Organizational Information Processing Theory, we expect differences in effectiveness to grow in prominence when the uncertainty of the operating environment increases, that is, when operational glitches in production processes become more frequent. Extending the existing literature, we postulate that high functional differentiation is a precondition for SEAs to be more effective than an ERP system, hypothesizing that the level of functional interdependence ultimately determines which type of software is superior for a given production process. We test our hypotheses using data collected from 163 make‐to‐order (MTO) production processes nested within 73 manufacturing plants and seven supply chains of complex, high‐tech machinery. Results show that when functional interdependence is low, the negative effect of operational glitches on delivery performance is effectively mitigated in MTO production processes wherein process‐related information is managed predominantly using SEAs; conversely, when functional interdependence is high, using an ERP system is more effective. Our findings offer practical guidelines as to when to use SEAs versus an ERP system while also integrating and updating the findings of earlier empirical research, in which each has been analyzed separately.

Yeomans, J.S. (2012). "A Decision Support System for Benchmarking the Energy and Waste Performance of Schools in Toronto", Environmental Systems Research, 1(5), 1-12.

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Abstract The Toronto District School Board (TDSB) oversees the largest school district in Canada and has been spent more than one third of its annual maintenance budget on energy and waste. This has directed attention toward system-wide reductions to both energy consumption patterns and waste generation rates. In this paper, a decision support system (DSS) that can process unit-incompatible measures is used for rating, ranking, and benchmarking the schools within the TDSB. Results: The DSS permits the ranking of any set of schools by contextually evaluating their relative attractiveness to other identified school groupings. Consequently, the DSS was used to explicitly rank each school’s performance within the district and to determine realistic energy improvement targets. Achieving these benchmarks would reduce system-wide energy costs by twenty-five percent. Conclusions: The TDSB study demonstrates that this DSS provides an extremely useful approach for evaluating, benchmarking and ranking the relative energy and waste performance within the school system, and the potential to extend its much broader applicability into other applications clearly warrants additional exploration.