Teaching
- Logistics & Supply Chain Management
- Operation Management
Qualifications
- Ph.D. in Operations Management, Open University, UKHigher Diploma in Teaching English as a Foreign Language, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
- Higher Diploma in Secondary Education, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
- M.B.A. Finance, Wagner College, New York, USA
- B.Sc Economics, City University of New York, New York, USA
- A.A.S Industrial Management, City University of New York, New York USA
- Ph.D. Open University and Rennes School of Business, 2010
- Ph.D. The Open University UK
Professional Development Professional Seminars / Workshops
- 2012: Open University Training Seminar – “How to Effectively Supervise PhD Students”, Rennes, France.
- 2006: European Case Clearing House (ECCH) Workshop, Rennes, France.
Professionnal certifications
- Refrigerating System Operating Engineer’s License, 1992 to Present
- High Pressure Boiler Operating Engineer’s License, 1991 to Present
Professionnal membership
- Society of Manufacturing Engineers, 2011
SERVICE
Academic Conference: Discussant
- 2009
The Association on Employment Practices and Principles (AEPP) Seventeenth Annual International Conference, Montreal, Canada, September 23-25
Academic Conference: Moderator / Facilitator
- 2015
ICPEM 2015: XIII International Conference on Production Engineering and Management, June 25-26, Paris, France.
- 2014
The 2014 International Conference on Business, Economics, Management and Marketing
- 2013
21st International Colloquium in Relationship Marketing (ICRM), Rennes, France.
- 2011
The 38th Annual Meeting of the Northeast Business & Economics Association (NBEA), Philadelphia, USA, November 3-5, 2011.
- 2011
Northeast Decision Sciences Institute 2011 Conference Montréal, Canada
Reviewer: Conference Paper
- 2014
19th World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
- 2013
21st International Colloquium in Relationship Marketing (ICRM), Rennes, France.
McNamara, T. (2013) Anonymous Paper Referee for the 21st International Colloquium in Relationship Marketing (ICRM) - 2011
Northeast Decision Sciences Institute 2011 Conference Montréal, Canada.
- 2009
10th International Decision Sciences Institute Conference (IDSI), Nancy, France,.
Reviewer - Article / Manuscript
- 2014
Journal of Enterprise Information Management – Special issue: IT System Innovation Out of Crisis: Lessons from Supply Chain Failures, Natural Disasters.
Research Interest
Trends and issues in Strategic Management and Operations Management
Investigating the performance of production lines through simulation
Work Experience
Academic
- Assistant Professor, Supply Chain Management & Information Systems Academic Area, Rennes School of Business (2010 – Present)
Non-Academic
- Senior Corporate Buyer, A Fortune 500 Energy Company (July, 1985 – April, 2001)
Intellectual Contributions
Refereed Articles - Basic or Discovery Scholarship
You are free to choose…are you? Organisational punishment as a productivity incentive in the social science literature
Authors:McNamara , Tom; Meloso, Debrah; Michelotti, Marco; Puncheva-Michelotti, Petya Published in:Human Relations, Vol. 75(2) 322–348 Date:2022
The effects of medium and sequence on personality trait assessments in face-to-face and videoconference selection interviews: Implications for HR analytics
Authors:Michelotti, M., McColl, R., Puncheva,P., Clarke, R., McNamara, T. Published in:Human Resource Management Journal, https://doi.org/10.1111/1748-8583.12425 Date:2021
The Operating Behaviour of Unbalanced, Unpaced Merging Assembly Lines
Authors:McNamara, T., Shaaban, S., Sbihi, A. and Laarraf, Z. Published in:RAIRO - Operations Research, Vol 55, N° 1, pp 99-113 Date:2021
Risk analysis in the management of a green supply chain.
Authors:Zou, Z, Farnoosh, A, McNamara, T. Published in:Strategic Change. 2021; 30: 5– 17 Date:2021
Manufacturing SMEs, network governance and global supply chains
Authors:Cragg, T., McNamara, T., Descubes, I., Guerin, F. Published in:ournal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, Vol. 27 No. 1, pp. 130-147 Date:2020
Recycling waste and upcycling people: a new type of environmentally-motivated social enterprise strategy.
Authors:Descubes, I., McNamara, T., Cragg, T. Published in:Int. J. Manufacturing Technology and Management, Vol. 32, No. 3, 2018, pp. 270-296 Date:2018
E-marketing communications of trophy hunting providers in Namibia: evidence of ethics and fairness in an apparently unethical and unfair industry?.
Authors:Descubes, I., McNamara, T., Claasen, C. Published in:Current Issues in Tourism, Volume 21, 2018 - Issue 12, pp. 1349-1354 Date:2018
Lesbians’ assessments of gay advertising in France: not necessarily a case of ‘La Vie en Rose?’.
Authors:Descubes, I., McNamara, T., Bryson, D Published in:Journal of Marketing Management, Volume 34, Issue 7-8 (2018), pp. 639-665 Date:2018
An ICT-based framework to improve global supply chain integration for final assembly SMES
Authors:Cragg, T., McNamara, T. Published in:Journal of Enterprise Information Management, Vol. 31 No. 5, 2018, pp. 634-657 Date:2018
Unpaced Merging Lines With Uneven Buffer Allocation.
Authors:Shaaban, S., McNamara, T., Dmitriev, V. Published in:IFAC-PapersOnLine, Vol. 50, issue 1, pp. 1093-1100 Date:2017
Asymmetrical buffer allocation in unpaced merging assembly lines.
Authors:Shaaban, S., McNamara, T., Dmitriev, V Published in:Computers & Industrial Engineering, Vol. 109 (2017), pp. 211-220 Date:2017
Fifty years of the bowl phenomenon
Authors:McNamara, T., Shaaban, S., Hudson, S. Published in:Journal of Manufacturing Systems, Vol. 41, (2016), pp. 1 - 7 Date:2016
Theatre-based learning to foster corporate legacy change.
Authors:Descubes, I., & McNamara, T. Published in:Journal of Organizational Change Management, Vol. 28, N° 4, 2015, pp. 565-578 Date:2015
The impact of failure, repair and joint imbalance of processing team means & buffer sizes on the performance of unpaced production lines.
Authors:Shaaban, S., McNamara, T., & Hudson, S. Published in:International Journal of Manufacturing Technology and Management, Vol. 289, Nos. 5/6, pp. 347-365 Date:2015
The performance of unpaced production lines with unbalanced mean operation times and unreliability patterns.
Authors:Hudson, S., Shaaben, S. & McNamara, T. Published in:Journal of Manufacturing Systems, Vol. 37, N° 1 (2015), pp. 164-172 Date:2015
Unbalanced Lines - where are we now?
Authors:Hudson, S., McNamara, T. & Shaaban, S Published in:International Journal of Production Research, Vol. 53, N° 6, pp. 1895-1911 Date:2015
An ICT-based framework to improve global supply chain integration for final assembly SMES
Authors:Cragg, Tony and Tom McNamara Published in:Journal of Enterprise Information Management Date:2015
The Performance of Unpaced Production Lines with Unbalanced Mean Operation Times and Unreliability Patterns
Authors:Hudson, Sarah, Sabry Shaaban, and Tom McNamara Published in:Journal of Manufacturing Systems Date:2015
The impact of failure, repair and joint imbalance of processing time means & buffer sizes on the performance of unpaced production lines
Authors:Shaaban, Sabry , Tom McNamara, and Sarah Hudson Published in:International Journal of Manufacturing Technology and Management Date:2015
Theatre-Based Learning to Foster Corporate Legacy Change
Authors:Descubes, Irena and Tom McNamara Published in:Journal of Organizational Change Management Date:2015
Unbalanced Lines – Where Are We Now?
Authors:Hudson, Sarah, Tom McNamara, and Sabry Shaaban Published in:International Journal of Production Research Date:2015
Mean Time Imbalance Effects on Unreliable Unpaced Serial Flow Lines.
Authors:Shaaban, Sabry, Tom McNamara, and Sarah Hudson Published in:Journal of Manufacturing Systems Date:2014
The Effect of Mean-Time and Variability Imbalance in Unreliable Lines.
Authors:McNamara, Tom, Sarah Hudson, and Sabry Shaaban Published in:Journal européen des systèmes automatisés Date:2014
Simulation of Unbalanced Buffer Allocation in Unreliable Unpaced Production Lines
Authors:McNamara, Tom, S. Shaaban, and S. Hudson Published in:International Journal of Production Research 51 Date:2013
The Effects of Unbalancing Operation Time Variability on the Performance of Unreliable Lines.
Authors:Shaaban, S, T. McNamara, and S. Hudson Published in:Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management 24 Date:2013
Unpaced Production Lines with Three Simultaneous Imbalance Sources
Authors:McNamara, Tom, Sabry Shaaban, and Sarah Hudson Published in:Industrial Management & Data Systems 111. Date:2011
The Effects of Joint Operations Time Means and Variability Unbalance on Production Line Performance.
Authors:Shaaban, Sabry and Tom McNamara Published in:International Journal of Manufacturing Technology and Management 18 Date:2009
Improving the efficiency of unpaced production lines by unbalancing service time means.
Authors:Shaaban, Sabry and T. McNamara Published in:International Journal of Operational Research Date:2009
Refereed Articles Contribution to Practice
From Physical Flows to Information Flows: An Evolving Concept of Supply Chain Management.
Authors:McNamara, T., Cragg, T. Published in:Supply Chain Management Review, 01/02/2016 Date:2016
L'agriculture biologique contribue-t-elle au bien-être ?.
Authors:Dufeu, I., Duchaine, S., McNamara, T., Morvan, C. Published in:Revue Éthique et Économique, Vol. 13, Issue 1, pp. 39-57 Date:2016
A Survey of the Literature on Assembly Line Balancing as it Relates to the Apparel Industry
Authors:McNamara, T. Published in:International Journal of Lean Thinking, Vol. 7, Issue 2, pp. 67-79. Date:2016
Getting the Most Out of Your Unpaced Production Line.
Authors:McNamara, Tom and S. Shaaban Published in:Assembly Magazine Date:2007
Improving the Performance of Your Unpaced Production Line
Authors:McNamara, Tom and S. Shaaban Published in:Manufactures Monthly Date:2007
Refereed Proceedings Discipline-Based Scholarship
Comportement Entrepreneurial Responsable: Cas de la Feuille d'Erable
Authors:Descubes, Irena and Tom McNamara Published in:9e Congrès de l'Académie de l'Entrepreneuriat et de l'Innovation, Entrepreuriat Responsable: Pratiques et Enjeux Théoriques Date:2015
Unreliable Production Lines with Simultaneously Unbalanced Operation Time Means, Breakdown and Repair Rates.
Authors:Shaaban, Sabry, Tom McNamara, and Sarah Hudson Published in:ICPEM 2015: XIII International Conference on Production Engineering and Management Date:2015
The Consumer Engagement Process As It Relates To A Brand's Revival Strategy
Authors:Descubes, Irena and Tom McNamara Published in:9th International Days of Statistics and Economics at VŠE, Prague, Czech Republic Date:2015
Unreliable Production Lines with Simultaneously Unbalanced Operation Time Means, Breakdown and Repair Rates.
Authors:Shaaban, Sabry, Tom McNamara, and Sarah Hudson Published in:ICPEM 2015: XIII International Conference on Production Engineering and Management Date:2014
Eco-citizen Social Enterprise Governance by Emotional Management: The Case of Feuille d'Erable
Authors:Descubes, Irena and Tom Mcnamara Published in:International Days of Statistics and Economics at VSE.Prague,CZ Date:2014
Unbalanced Mean-time and Buffer Effects in Lines Suffering Breakdown.
Authors:Shaaban, Sabry, Tom Mcnamara, and Sarah Hudson Published in:The 2014 International Conference on Business, Economics, Management and Marketing, Date:2014
Improving the performance of manual production lines through deliberate imbalance: The sweet spot
Authors:McNamara, Tom Published in:20th European Operations Management Association (EurOMA) Conference Date:2013
Art-based Learning: Catalyst for Change in Corporate Culture
Authors:Descubes, Irena and Tom McNamara Published in:7th Annual Conference of International Days of Statistics and Economics, Prague, Republic Czech Date:2013
Reliable and Unreliable Unpaced Production Lines with Unbalanced Operation Time Means – A Comparison
Authors:Shaaban, Sabry, Sarah Hudson, and Tom McNamara Published in:14th IFAC Symposium on Information Control Problems in Manufacturing Date:2012
Performance of Reliable and Unreliable Unpaced Production Lines with Uneven Buffer Allocation
Authors:Shaaban, Sabry, Tom McNamara, and Sarah Hudson Published in:14th IFAC Symposium on Information Control Problems in Manufacturing Date:2012
The Design of Reliable Unpaced Production Lines with Single and Double Imbalance Sources
Authors:Shaaban, Sabry, Tom McNamara, and Ahmed Atil Published in:The 38th Annual Meeting of the Northeast Business & Economics Association (NBEA Date:2011
he Impact of Unbalanced Processing Time Means on Unreliable Unpaced Serial Flow Lines
Authors:Shaaban, Sabry, Tom McNamara, and Ahmed Atil Published in:World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology: WASET Conference Date:2011
The Allocation of Buffer Capacities in Unreliable Unpaced Production Lines Using Simulation
Authors:Shaaban, Sabry, Tom McNamara, and Ahmed Atil Published in:The 38th Annual Meeting of the Northeast Business & Economics Association (NBEA), Philadelphia, USA Date:2011
The Behaviour of Unpaced Production Lines with Unequal Mean processing Times, Variability, or Buffer Capacities
Authors:Shaaban, Sabry , Tom McNamara, Tom McNamara, and Ahmed Atil Published in:Northeast Decision Sciences Institute 2011 Annual Conference Date:2011
Unpaced Serial Production Lines with Two Simultaneous Sources of Imbalance – Their Operating Characteristics
Authors:Shaaban, Sabry, Tom McNamara, and Ahmed Atil Published in:Northeast Decision Sciences Institute 2011 Annual Conference Date:2011
The Operational Performance of Serial Unpaced Production Lines with Simultaneous Mean Processing Time, Variability and Buffer Imbalances
Authors:McNamara, Tom and Sabry Shaaban Published in:10th International Decision Sciences Institute Conference Date:2009
The Performance of Unpaced Lines with Unequal Buffer Sizes."
Authors:Shaaban, Sabry and Tom McNamara Published in:The Economic & International Business Research Conference Date:2009
Transient Behaviour of Unbalanced Lines
Authors:Shaaban, Sabry and Tom McNamara Published in:World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology: WASET Conference Date:2009
Unreliable Flow Lines with Jointly Unequal Operation Time Means, Variabilities and Buffer Sizes.
Authors:Shaaban, Sabry and Tom McNamara Published in:World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology: WASET Conference Date:2009
Unpaced Production Lines with Unequal Mean Operation Times and Uneven Buffer Capacities: Their Performance.
Authors:Shaaban, Sabry and Tom McNamara Published in:Seventeenth Annual International Conference Date:2009
Balanced Reliable and Unreliable Manual Production Lines: Their Behaviour and Efficiency.
Authors:Shaaban, Sabry and Tom McNamara Published in:The Association on Employment Practices and Principles (AEPP) Seventeenth Annual International Conference Date:2009
Learning & Pedagogical Scholarship
Can you please stop talking while I teach? Anglo-Saxon teaching expectations in a French business education environment.
Authors:Marsillac, Erika, Don Minday, and Tom McNamara Published in:AIB Midwest Conference, Date:2007
Unreliable Production Lines with Simultaneously Unbalanced Operation Time Means, Breakdown and Repair Rates.
Authors:Shaaban, Sabry, Tom McNamara, and Sarah Hudson Published in:ICPEM 2015: XIII International Conference on Production Engineering and Management Date:2015
Chapters, Cases, Readings, Supplements Case
Chapter:
Authors:Cragg, Tony and Tom McNamara Published in:Kogan Page Publishers, 1st edition, 384 pages, ISBN 978-1789668216 Date:November 2021
Case Study 5: Private Prisons in the United States: a case of profit at any cost?.
Authors:McNamara, T., Descubes, I., Claasen , C. Published in:Fritz Allhoff, Alexander Sager (ed.). Business Cases in Ethical Focus. Canada : Broadview Press Ltd, 2019, 320 p pp. 52-60 ISBN 9781554813742 Date:2019
Case Study 8: The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
Authors:Claasen, C., McNamara, T. Published in:Fritz Allhoff, Alexander Sager (ed.). Business Cases in Ethical Focus. Canada : Broadview Press Ltd, 2019, 320 p pp. 81-88 ISBN 9781554813742 Date:2019
Case Study 9: Dakota Access Pipeline
Authors:Claasen, C., McNamara, T., Descubes, I. Published in:Fritz Allhoff, Alexander Sager (ed.). Business Cases in Ethical Focus. Canada : Broadview Press Ltd, 2019, 320 p pp. 89-96 ISBN 9781554813742 Date:2019
Case Study 26: Citibank and Collateralized Debt Obligations
Authors:McNamara, T., Descubes, I. Published in:Fritz Allhoff, Alexander Sager (ed.). Business Cases in Ethical Focus. Canada : Broadview Press Ltd, 2019, 320 p pp. 226-233 ISBN 9781554813742 Date:2019
Case Study 27: Misplaced Incentives: Large-Scale Fraud at Wells Fargo
Authors:Descubes, I., McNamara, T., Claasen , C. Published in:Fritz Allhoff, Alexander Sager (ed.). Business Cases in Ethical Focus. Canada : Broadview Press Ltd, 2019, 320 p pp. 234-242 ISBN 9781554813742 Date:2019
Case Study 31: Democracy in Business: The Mondragon Workers Cooperative
Authors:McNamara, T., Claasen , C., Descubes, I. Published in:Fritz Allhoff, Alexander Sager (ed.). Business Cases in Ethical Focus. Canada : Broadview Press Ltd, 2019, 320 p pp. 262-269 ISBN 9781554813742 Date:2019
Chapter 2, Case Study 4: Reaching sinks, dinks and Millennials Worldwide
Authors:McNamara, T., Descubes, I. Published in:Jobber, D. and Ellis-Chadwick, F.(ed.). Principles and practice of marketing 9th ed. London : McGraw-Hill Education (UK) Ltd, 2019, 885 p. ISBN 978-1526847232 Date:2019
Chapter 9 Case study 17: Nordstrom: Using Service Excellence To Provide A Better Customer Experience
Authors:McNamara, T., Descubes, I. Published in:Jobber, D. and Ellis-Chadwick, F.(ed.). Principles and practice of marketing 9th ed. London : McGraw-Hill Education (UK) Ltd, 2019, 885 p. ISBN 978-1526847232 Date:2019
Chapter 10 Case study 19: Starbucks Managing customer relationships one cup at a time
Authors:McNamara, T., Descubes, I. Published in:Jobber, D. and Ellis-Chadwick, F.(ed.). Principles and practice of marketing 9th ed. London : McGraw-Hill Education (UK) Ltd, 2019, 885 p. ISBN 978-1526847232 Date:2019
Chapter 14, Case Study 27: Volvo: Buying a car by simply using an app
Authors:McNamara, T., Descubes, I. Published in:Jobber, D. and Ellis-Chadwick, F.(ed.). Principles and practice of marketing 9th ed. London : McGraw-Hill Education (UK) Ltd, 2019, 885 p. ISBN 978-1526847232 Date:2019
Chapter 19, Case Study 38: Coca Cola in India: an unstoppable powerhouse or a stumbling giant?
Authors:McNamara, T., Descubes, I. Published in:Jobber, D. and Ellis-Chadwick, F.(ed.). Principles and practice of marketing 9th ed. London : McGraw-Hill Education (UK) Ltd, 2019, 885 p. ISBN 978-1526847232 Date:2019
Chapter 9 Case 9 Omni-Channel Marketing at Danske Bank: Using Technology to Provide Great Customer Service
Authors:McNamara, T., Descubes, I. Published in:Fahy, J. and Jobber, D. Foundations of Marketing, 6th ed. London : McGraw-Hill Education / Europe, Middle East & Africa. 2019. ISBN 978-1526847348 Date:2019
Case Study 43: The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
Authors:Claasen, C., McNamara, T. Published in:Fritz Allhoff, Alexander Sager and Anand Vaidya (dir.), Business in Ethical Focus: An Anthology, 2nd Ed. Canada : Broadview Press Ltd 2016, 750 p. ISBN 978-1554812516 Date:2016
Case Study 19: Citibank and Collateralized Debt Obligations
Authors:Descubes, I., McNamara, T. Published in:Fritz Allhoff, Alexander Sager and Anand Vaidya (dir.), Business in Ethical Focus: An Anthology, 2nd Ed. Canada : Broadview Press Ltd 2016, 750 p. ISBN 978-1554812516 Date:2016
Namdeb: Debeers' joint venture with the Namibian Government
Authors:Claasen, C., McNamara, T., Descubes, I. Published in:The Case center, 716-0049-1 Date:2016
Trophy hunting in Namibia: controversial but sustainable? A case study of 'Hunters Namibia Safaris'
Authors:McNamara, T., Claasen, C., Descubes, I. Published in:The Case center, 716-0053-1 Date:2016
Can IKEA adapt its service experience to India?
Authors:McNamara, T., Descubes, I. Published in:Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies, Vol. 6, N°1, May 2016 Date:2016
Chapter 19 Case Study: Maybach - The rise, fall, and (possible) rise again of a luxury icon.
Authors:McNamara, Tom and Irena Descubes Published in:Principles and practice of marketing 8th ed Date:2015
Chapter 9 Case Study: IKEA and Service - Will people in India be happy assembling their own furniture?
Authors:McNamara, Tom and Irena Descubes Published in:Principles and practice of marketing 8th ed Date:2015
Chapter 21 Case Study: Volvo and Global Marketing Strategy - Fundamentally changing the way cars are marketed and sold
Authors:McNamara, Tom and Asha Moore-Mangin Published in:Principles and practice of marketing 8th ed., by Jobber, D. and Ellis-Chadwick, F Date:2015
Chapter 16 Case Study: Starbucks and Social Media - It's more than just about the coffee
Authors:McNamara, Tom and Asha Moore-Mangin Published in:Principles and practice of marketing 8th ed. Date:2015
Chapter 3 Case Study: The Mercurial Behaviour of Millennials
Authors:McNamara, Tom and Asha Moore-Mangin Published in:Principles and practice of marketing 8th ed Date:2015
Chapter 2 Case Study: SodaStream - Adapting itself to a changing market
Authors:McNamara, Tom and Asha Moore-Mangin Published in:Principles and practice of marketing 8th ed Date:2015
Chapter 16 Case Study: "Digital Marketing: Gucci – Making Luxury Go Digital.
Authors:McNamara, Tom and Asha Moore-Mangin Published in:Principles and practice of marketing 8th ed Date:2015
Chapter 9 Case Study: "Nordstrom - A shining example of service excellence.
Authors:McNamara, Tom and Asha Moore-Mangin Published in:Principles and practice of marketing 8th ed Date:2015
Chapter 15 Case Study: "JCPenney and Direct Marketing: Using something old to improve something new?
Authors:McNamara, Tom and Asha Moore-Mangin Published in:Principles and practice of marketing 8th ed., Date:2015
Chapter 9 Case Study: Chapter 11 Case Study.
Authors:McNamara, Tom and Asha Moore-Mangin Published in:Principles and practice of marketing 8th ed Date:2015
Chapter 7 Case Study: IKEA - A unique service experience
Authors:McNamara, Tom and Irena Descubes Published in:Foundations of Marketing – Global Edition, 5th ed Date:2014
Chapter 4 Case Study: H&M and Social Media - An effective market research too
Authors:McNamara, Tom and Irena Descubes Published in:Foundations of Marketing – Global Edition, 5th ed Date:2014
Can IKEA adapt its service experience to India?
Authors:McNamara, Tom and Irena Descubes Published in:Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies Date:2014
Case 19: Airbus' Overstretched Supply Chain - Just How Far Can You Go before Your Supply Chain Snaps?
Authors:Marsillac, Erika and Tom McNamara Published in:The Supply Chain Management Casebook: Comprehensive Coverage and Best Practices in SCM Date:2013
Case 21: The End of Lean? - Automotive Manufacturers are Rethinking Some Supply Chain Basics.
Authors:Marsillac, Erika and Tom McNamara Published in:The Supply Chain Management Casebook: Comprehensive Coverage and Best Practices in SCM Date:2013
Case 20: How to Keep Your Food Supply Chain Fresh.
Authors:McNamara, Tom and Erika Marsillac Published in:The Supply Chain Management Casebook: Comprehensive Coverage and Best Practices in SCM Date:2013
Case 18: Make to Demand with 3-D Printing -The Next Big Thing in Inventory Management?
Authors:McNamara, Tom and Erika Marsillac Published in:The Supply Chain Management Casebook: Comprehensive Coverage and Best Practices in SCM. Date:2013
Chapter 11 - Reducing Pollution Through Green Logistics.
Authors:McNamara, Tom and Erika Marsillac Published in:Sustutainability in Supply Chain Management CaseBook Date:2014
Chapter 13 - Strategy Spotlight 13.3: LinkedIn and process reengineering: Better performance than Google or Facebook.
Authors:McNamara, Tom and Helena Gonzalez Published in:Strategic Management - Global Edition, 7th ed Date:2014
Chapter 11 - Strategy Spotlight 11.7: Employee empowerment at GE
Authors:McNamara, Tom and Irena Descubes Published in:Strategic Management - Global Edition, 7th ed Date:2014
Chapter 10 - Issues for Debate: Supercell has the world's weakest CEO
Authors:McNamara, Tom and Asha Moore-Mangin Published in:Strategic Management - Global Edition, 7th ed Date:2014
Chapter 2 - Learning From Mistakes
Authors:Descubes, Irena and Tom McNamara Published in:Strategic Management - Global Edition, 7th ed Date:2014
Chapter 12 – Issues for Debate: Citizen-riders speak up and crowsource the Pibal
Authors:Descubes, Irena and Tom McNamara Published in:Strategic Management - Global Edition, 7th ed., by Dess, G. et al, McGraw Date:2014
Chapter 9 – Issues for Debate: Better Corporate Governance: If CEOs can't do it, shareholders will
Authors:Gonzalez, Helena and Tom McNamara, Published in:Strategic Management - Global Edition, 7th ed Date:2014
Chapter 2 Closing Case: France's troubled economy.
Authors:Cragg, Tony and Tom Mcnamara Published in:International Business – Global Edition, 10th ed Date:2014
Chapter 10 – Opening Case: Are world currency markets being manipulated? Something fishy with foreign exchange.
Authors:McNamara, Tom and Agata Mirowska Published in:International Business – Global Edition, 10th ed., by Hill, C., McGraw Hill Publishers Date:2014
Chapter 15 Opening Case: Sulky Burel in Russia.
Authors:Cragg, Tony and Tom Mcnamara Published in:Global Edition, 10th ed., by Hill, C., McGraw – Hill Publishers Date:2014
Chapter 12 Opening Case: Restrictions on capital flows are growing. But are all capital flows alike?
Authors:McNamara, Tom and Irena Descubes Published in:International Business – Global Edition, 10th ed. Date:2014
Chapter 10 Management Focus: Wal-Mart Loses $680 million due to Failure to Hedge Against the Dollar.
Authors:Mirowska, Agata and Tom Mcnamara Published in:International Business – Global Edition, 10th ed. Date:2014
Chapter 9 – Management Focus: EU takes aim at Google over anti-trust accusations.
Authors:McNamara, Tom and Agata Mirowska Published in:International Business – Global Edition, 10th ed Date:2014
Chapter 2 – Management Focus: JP Morgan Chase is under investigation for possible wrong doing
Authors:McNamara, Tom and Caroline Michel Published in:International Business – Global Edition, 10th ed Date:2014
Chapter 14 Opening Case: Reorganization at EADS.
Authors:McNamara, Tom and Asha Moore Published in:Global Edition, 10th ed., by Hill, C., McGraw – Hill Publishers. Date:2014
Chapter 10 Country Focus: Abenomics and Japan. Can Prime Minister Abe's policies prevent a third 'lost' decade?
Authors:Mirowska, Agata and Tom McNamara Published in:International Business – Global Edition, 10th ed Date:2014
Chapter 6 – Closing Case: Morocco's Growing Aviation Industry
Authors:Michel, Caroline and Tom McNamara Published in:International Business – Global Edition, 10th ed Date:2014
Chapter 9 - Strategy Spotlight 9.4: Radical activism and Nestlé: How the company is being forced to re-think its strategy and policies
Authors:Moore - Mangin, A. & McNamara, T Published in:Strategic Management - Global Edition, 7th ed Date:2013
Chapter 5 – Learning from Mistakes: 'The story of how Showrooming' almost destroyed 'Best Buy' and what they did to fight back
Authors:Claasen, C. & McNamara, T Published in:Strategic Management - Global Edition, 7th ed., by Dess, G. et al, McGraw – Hill Publishers. Date:2013
Chapter 8 – Issues for Debate: Rebranding the city of Košice: From industrial eye sore to hotbed of creativity?
Authors:Descubes, I. & McNamara, T. Published in:Strategic Management - Global Edition, 7th ed., by Dess, G. et al, McGraw – Hill Publishers. Date:2013
Chapter 11 - Strategy Spotlight 11.8: The fracking industry: Is it really clean energy?
Authors:McNamara, T. & Marsillac, E Published in:Strategic Management - Global Edition, 7th ed Date:2013
Chapter 2 - Strategy Spotlight 2.3: The Future of Energy: Scenario planning at Shell
Authors:McNamara, T. & Marsillac, E Published in:Strategic Management - Global Edition, 7th ed., by Dess, G. et al, Mcgraw – Hill Publishers. Date:2013
Chapter 1 - Strategy Spotlight 1.6: Back to (manufacturing) basics for General Electric
Authors:McNamara, T. & Marsillac, E. Published in:Strategic Management - Global Edition, 7th ed., by Dess, G. et al, Mcgraw – Hill Publishers Date:2013
Chapter 1 - Learning from Mistakes: Microsoft hits another bump in the road
Authors:McNamara, T. & Marsillac, E. Published in:Strategic Management - Global Edition, 7th ed Date:2013
Chapter 6 - Issues for Debate: Is Microsoft finally becoming a vertically integrated Company?
Authors:McNamara, T. & Gonzalez, H Published in:Strategic Management - Global Edition, 7th ed., by Dess, G. et al, Mcgraw – Hill Publishers. Date:2013
Chapter 11 - Strategy Spotlight 11.9: "The IKEA way or the IWAY
Authors:McNamara, T. & Descubes, I Published in:Strategic Management - Global Edition, 7th ed Date:2013
Chapter 11 - Issues for Debate: Ethically made clothing. You wear it but how do you really know it's been made ethically
Authors:McNamara, T. & Descubes, I. Published in:Strategic Management - Global Edition, 7th ed., by Dess, G. et al, Mcgraw – Hill Publishers. Date:2013
Chapter 3 - Learning from Mistakes - Mercedes Benz and the failure of the Maybach: A question of too much luxury or not enough?
Authors:McNamara, T. & Descubes, I Published in:Strategic Management - Global Edition, 7th ed Date:2013
Chapter 8 - Strategy Spotlight 8.5: "From 0 to $10 Billion. Young Chinese tech upstart "Xiaomi" has its eyes on Apple.
Authors:McNamara, T. & Claasen, C Published in:Strategic Management - Global Edition, 7th ed., by Dess, G. et al, McGraw – Hill Publishers Date:2013
Chapter 10 - Strategy Spotlight 10.5: National Geographic: Saving the planet is its strategy.
Authors:Descubes, I. & McNamara, T. Published in:Strategic Management - Global Edition, 7th ed., by Dess, G. et al, McGraw – Hill Publishers. Date:2013
Chapter 11 - Learning from Mistakes - GlaxoSmithKline's problems in China: Not what the doctor ordered.
Authors:McNamara, T. & Descubes, I Published in:Strategic Management - Global Edition, 7th ed., by Dess, G. et al, McGra. Date:2013
Chapter 11 - Learning from Mistakes - GlaxoSmithKline's problems in China: Not what the doctor ordered
Authors:McNamara, T. & Descubes, I Published in:Strategic Management - Global Edition, 7th ed., Date:2013
Chapter 5 - Strategy Spotlight 5.4: How Apple uses its 'ecosystem' to give Mac an advantage over Windows
Authors:Gonzales, H. & McNamara, T. Published in:Strategic Management - Global Edition, 7th ed., by Dess, G. et al, McGraw – Hill Publishers. Date:2013
Chapter 9 – Issues for Debate: Better Corporate Governance: If CEOs can't do it, shareholders will!
Authors:Gonzalez, H. & McNamara, T. Published in:Strategic Management - Global Edition, 7th ed., by Dess, G. et al, McGraw – Hill Publishers. Date:2013
Chapter 5 - A Very Unconventional Energy Source.
Authors:McNamara, T. & Truong, Y Published in:International Business – International Edition, by Hill 9th ed., McGraw - Hill. McGraw Hill. Date:2012
Chapter 5: "Corruption and Class Conflict in China
Authors:Truong, Y. & McNamara, T Published in:International Business – International Edition - Hill 9th ed., McGraw - Hill. McGraw Hill. Date:2012
Chapter 5: Mainstreaming Microcredit via the Internet.
Authors:Truong, Y. & McNamara, T Published in:International Business – International Edition - by Hill 9th ed., McGraw - Hill. McGraw Hill. Date:2012
Chapter 5: The Emerald Isle Is Getting Greener.
Authors:McNamara, T., Marsillac, E., & Dufeu, I. Published in:International Business – International Edition - by Ball 13th ed., McGraw - Hill. McGraww-Hill. Date:2012
Chapter 17: So you want to be an Expat?
Authors:McNamara, T. & Marsillac, E Published in:International Business – International Edition - by Ball 13th ed., McGraw - Hill. McGraw Hill. Date:2012
Danone: A Glocal Firm.
Authors:Duchaine, S., Dufeu, I., & McNamara, T Published in:International Business – International Edition Date:2012
Chapter 8: The Swiss National Bank: Not running like clockwork.
Authors:McNamara, T. & Descubes, I Published in:International Business – International Edition - by Ball 13th ed Date:2012
Chapter 8: Islamic Banking: Say hello to your friendly neighbourhood religious banker.
Authors:McNamara, T. & Descubes, I Published in:International Business – International Edition - by Ball 13th ed Date:2012
Chapter 13: Budweiser: Would a Bud by any other name still taste just as sweet?
Authors:Descubes, I. & McNamara, T Published in:International Business – International Edition, by Ball 13th ed Date:2012
Chapter 13: Walmart's joint venture in India: A marriage of love or convenience.
Authors:McNamara, T. & Descubes, I Published in:International Business – International Edition Date:2012
Chapter 2: Exercising Strategy - Attention shoppers: Nervous breakdown in progress on aisle
Authors:McNamara, T. & Descubes, I Published in:Human Resources Management – International Edition Date:2012
Chapter 4: Evidence Based HR - Don't feel like going to work today? Not a problem. Human Resources Management
Authors:McNamara, T. & Descubes, I Published in:International Edition, by Noe 8th ed Date:2012
Chapter 5: Exercising Strategy - Do you need a compliant labour force willing to work 7 days a week for pennies a day? Call us.
Authors:McNamara, T. & Descubes, I Published in:Human Resources Management – International Edition Date:2012
Chapter 11: Managing People - Porsche: Where high performance meets low cost labour.
Authors:McNamara, T. & Descubes, I Published in:Human Resources Management – International Edition, by Noe 8th ed Date:2012
Chapter 1: Exercising Strategy - Danone: The power of people
Authors:McNamara, T., Duchaine, S., & Dufeu, I Published in:Human Resources Management – International Edition, by Noe 8th ed Date:2012
Chapter 11: Pay Structure Decisions - Oil, diamonds and ... computers? The emergence of a new cartel
Authors:McNamara, T. & Descubes, I Published in:Human Resources Management – International Edition, by Noe 8th ed Date:2012
Chapter 12: Recognizing Employee Contributions with Pay - Carrots and sticks aren't cutting it anymore!
Authors:Descubes, I. & McNamara, T Published in:Human Resources Management – International Edition, by Noe 8th ed. Date:2012
The Analysis and Design of Work - Daily stand-up meetings: an agile management tool
Authors:Descubes, I. & McNamara, T Published in:Human Resources Management – International Edition, by Noe 8th ed Date:2012
Chapter 2: Strategic HRM: Control Vs Commitment.
Authors:Asha, M. & McNamara, T Published in:Human Resources Management – International Edition, by Noe 8th ed Date:2012
Presentations of Refereed Papers International
An Investigation into the Status of the Relationship between Organizational Punishment and Productivity
Authors:McNamara, Tom , Debrah Meloso, Marco Michelotti, and Petya Puncheva Published in:the Social Science Literature." (in press) The British Academy of Management BAM2019 Conference, Aston University, United Kingdom, 3-5 September, 2019 Date:2019
Citizen Social Entrepreneurship and Gen Y: A Hybrid Business Model. A Case Study of "MakeSense.org
Authors:Descubes, Irena and Tom McNamara. Published in:12th international days of statistics and economics , Prague, Czech Republic, September 2018 Date:2018
A New Application of the Internal Model Control Principle
Authors:Gregory, Mark and Tom McNamara, Published in:OR Society OR59 Annual Conference 2017, Loughborough, United Kingdom, September 2017 Date:2017
Unpaced Merging Lines With Uneven Buffer Allocation
Authors:Shaaban, Sabry , Tom McNamara, and V. Dmitriev. Published in:20th World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC 2017), Toulouse, France, July 2017 Date:2017
SMEs versus listed companies: on equal footing when confronted with M&As organizational culture integration challenge?
Authors:Descubes, Irena and Tom McNamara. Published in:10th international days of statistics and economics, Prague, Czech Republic, September 2016 Date:2016
Unpaced Merging Lines With Uneven Buffer Allocation
Authors:Dmitriev, Viatcheslav , S. Shaaban, T. McNamara, and E. Marsillac Published in:19th International Conference on Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Paris, France, August 2016 Date:2016
Ethical Discourse in a contentious industry: trophy hunting in Namibia
Authors:Claasen, Cyrlene , Irena Descubes, and Tom Mcnamara Published in:EGOS , Naples, Italy, July 2016 Date:2016
The Operating Behaviour of Unbalanced Unpaced Merging Assembly Lines
Authors:S. Shaaban, T. McNamara, S. Hudson. Published in:ICORFE 2016, International Conference on Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Paris, France, June 2016 Date:2016
The consumer engagement process as it relates to a brand's revival strategy
Authors:Descubes, Irena and Tom McNamara. Published in:9th International days of statistics and economics, Prague, Czech Republic, September 2015 Date:2015
Comportement Entrepreneurial Responsable : Cas de la Feuille d'Erable
Authors:Descubes, Irena and Tom McNamara. Published in:9e Congrès de l'Académie de l'Entrepreneuriat et de l'Innovation, Entrepreuriat Responsable: Pratiques et Enjeux Théoriques, Nantes, France, May 2015 Date:2015
Unreliable Production Lines with Simultaneously Unbalanced Operation Time Means, Breakdown and Repair Rates
Authors:Shaaban, Sabry, Tom McNamara, and Sarah Hudson Published in:ICPEM 2015: XIII International Conference on Production Engineering and Management Date:2015
Unbalanced Mean-time and Buffer Effects in Lines Suffering Breakdown
Authors:Shaaban, Sabry, Tom Mcnamara, and Sarah Hudson Published in:The 2014 International Conference on Business, Economics, Management and Marketing Date:2014
Improving the performance of manual production lines through deliberate imbalance: The sweet spot
Authors:McNamara, Tom Published in:20th European Operations Management Association (EurOMA) Conference, Dublin, Ireland Date:2013
The Allocation of Buffer Capacities in Unreliable Unpaced Production Lines Using Simulation
Authors:Shaaban, Sabry, Tom McNamara, and Ahmed Atil Published in:The 38th Annual Meeting of the Northeast Business & Economics Association (NBEA), Philadelphia, USA Date:2011
The Design of Reliable Unpaced Production Lines with Single and Double Imbalance Sources
Authors:Shaaban, Sabry, Tom McNamara, and Ahmed Atil Published in:The 38th Annual Meeting of the Northeast Business & Economics Association Date:2011
The Impact of Unbalanced Processing Time Means on Unreliable Unpaced Serial Flow Lines
Authors:Shaaban, Sabry, Tom McNamara, and Ahmed Atil Published in:International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Systems Management Date:2011
The Behaviour of Unpaced Production Lines with Unequal Mean processing Times, Variability, or Buffer Capacities
Authors:Shaaban, Sabry, Tom McNamara, and Ahmed Atil Published in:Northeast Decision Sciences Institute 2011 Annual Conference, Montréal, Canada Date:2011
Unpaced Serial Production Lines with Two Simultaneous Sources of Imbalance – Their Operating Characteristics
Authors:Shaaban, Sabry, Tom McNamara, and Ahmed Atil Published in:Northeast Decision Sciences Institute 2011 Annual Conference Date:2011
The Operational Performance of Serial Unpaced Production Lines with Simultaneous Mean Processing Time, Variability and Buffer Imbalances
Authors:McNamara, Tom and Sabry Shaaban Published in:10th International Decision Sciences Institute Conference Date:2009
The Performance of Unpaced Lines with Unequal Buffer Sizes
Authors:Shaaban, Sabry and Tom McNamara Published in:The Economic & International Business Research Conference Date:2009
Transient Behaviour of Unbalanced Lines
Authors:Shaaban, Sabry and Tom McNamara Published in:The International Conference on Systems Engineering and Engineering Management Date:2009
Unreliable Flow Lines with Jointly Unequal Operation Time Means, Variabilities and Buffer Sizes
Authors:Shaaban, Sabry and Tom McNamara Published in:The International Conference on Systems Engineering and Engineering Management Date:2009
Balanced Reliable and Unreliable Manual Production Lines: Their Behaviour and Efficiency.
Authors:Shaaban, Sabry and Tom McNamara Published in:The Association on Employment Practices and Principles (AEPP) Seventeenth Annual International Conference Date:2009
Unpaced Production Lines with Unequal Mean Operation Times and Uneven Buffer Capacities: Their Performance
Authors:Shaaban, Sabry and Tom McNamara Published in:The Association on Employment Practices and Principles (AEPP) Seventeenth Annual International Conference Date:2009
Presentations of Non-Refereed Papers - International
An Investigation into the Operating Characteristics of Unbalanced Manual Serial Production Lines. Network of International Business Schools
Authors:McNamara, Tom Published in:10th International Conference / Doctoral Colloquium, the Rennes Sc, Rennes, France. Date:2005
Presentations of Non-Refereed Papers - Regional
The United States, Globalization and the Current Financial Crisis.
Authors:McNamara, Tom Published in:Socio-Cultural Conference on "The Challenges of Globalization", November 12 to 17, 2012 held at Lycée La Touche, Ploërmel, France, Ploërmel, France Date:2012
