TY - JOUR
T1 - Operations research practice on logistics management in Taiwan
T2 - An academic view
AU - Wu, Yen Chun Jim
AU - Huang, I. C.
N1 - Funding Information:
Research grant support from National Science Council of Taiwan (NSC 95-2516-S-327-008-MY2) is gratefully acknowledged. Also, the authors would like to express their appreciation to the anonymous referees for their constructive comments.
PY - 2007/10/1
Y1 - 2007/10/1
N2 - The opinions of logistics educators in Taiwan on OR practices in the domestic logistics industry are explored in this research. In this study, questionnaires were given to 42 pre-screened educators at 10 logistics departments and graduate institutes. According to the 37 valid returned questionnaires, 70% of the responding educators believe the major source of OR techniques in Taiwan's logistics industry originates from individual employee training, while 92% believe OR is not widely used primarily because companies are unfamiliar with OR techniques. OR techniques were considered helpful in solving problems by 73%. Generally speaking, familiarity with OR techniques is not associated with implementation of OR techniques by educators. Additionally, logistics educators express concern about insufficient training for logistics students in Taiwan. However, they are optimistic about the logistics industry's willingness to more actively adopt OR techniques in Taiwan in the next two years.
AB - The opinions of logistics educators in Taiwan on OR practices in the domestic logistics industry are explored in this research. In this study, questionnaires were given to 42 pre-screened educators at 10 logistics departments and graduate institutes. According to the 37 valid returned questionnaires, 70% of the responding educators believe the major source of OR techniques in Taiwan's logistics industry originates from individual employee training, while 92% believe OR is not widely used primarily because companies are unfamiliar with OR techniques. OR techniques were considered helpful in solving problems by 73%. Generally speaking, familiarity with OR techniques is not associated with implementation of OR techniques by educators. Additionally, logistics educators express concern about insufficient training for logistics students in Taiwan. However, they are optimistic about the logistics industry's willingness to more actively adopt OR techniques in Taiwan in the next two years.
KW - Education
KW - Logistics
KW - OR applications
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ejor.2006.07.015
DO - 10.1016/j.ejor.2006.07.015
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:34147123645
VL - 182
SP - 428
EP - 435
JO - European Journal of Operational Research
JF - European Journal of Operational Research
SN - 0377-2217
IS - 1
ER -