Alan Robinson
Professor Emeritus
Education
Professional Experience
Academic Appointments
Recent Honors / Awards
Research Interests
Teaching Interests
- Operations Management
- High-Performance Organizations
- Corporate Creativity
- Lean
- Continuous Improvement
- Innovation
- Operations Management
- Practicum
- High-Performance Organizations
- Corporate Creativity
- Operations Management
- High-Performance Organizations
Selected Publications
“How leaders can create policies that actually work” (joint with Dean Schroeder) Journal of Government Financial Management, 66, no. 4, 2017, 36-41.2.
“Solving the unsolvable: How to address complex politically-charged transorganizational problems. (joint with Dean Schroeder), Organizational Dynamics, 46, no. 4, 2017, 212-219.3.
“A New Paradigm in Government Purchasing: Highways England and its Continuously Improving Supply Chain” (joint with Dean Schroeder) Journal of Government Financial Management, 65, no. 3, 2016, 38-44.
Sma Ideer Stora Resultat (Small Ideas - Big Results) (co-authored with Louise Oestberg and Dean Schroeder), SIS Forlag, Sweden, 2010. This book was the result of a study of creativity and idea management in twenty-five Swedish companies, and won the SIS Writers Award for the best book published in 2010 by the Swedish Standards Institute.
Green is Free: Creating Sustainable Competitive Advantage Through Green Excellence” (joint with Dean Schroeder), Organizational Dynamics, 39, 2010, no. 4, 345-352, 2011.
Managing Continuous Improvement In Vietnam: Unique Challenges and Approaches To Overcome Them” (joint with Phuong Anh Nguyen), Quality Management Journal, 17, 2010 no. 2, 23-41.
“The Role of Front-Line Ideas in Lean Performance Improvement” (joint with Dean Schroeder), Quality Management Journal, 16, 2009, no. 4, 27-40.