Dr James Wilson

Honorary Senior Research Fellow (Adam Smith Business School)

Adam Smith Business School, 2 Discovery Place, Glasgow, G11 6EY

Biography

James Wilson has been a Senior Lecturer in Management at the University of Glasgow since 1996. Prior to that, he held a joint appointment from 1984, split between the Accountancy & Finance and Management Studies departments. Before joining the University of Glasgow, he completed his PhD at the University of Houston in the USA; having a PhD in Operations Management, an MBA in Finance and an MA in Economics, with undergraduate degree in Politics and in Electrical Technology. He has worked in an engineering capacity for an electrical generation and distribution company and as a production planner for an oil field equipment manufacturer.

Research interests

James is a member of the Services and Operations Management research cluster.

Areas of expertise:

Project management
Production management systems
Inventory management & control systems
Management history‌

Publications

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Number of items: 20.

2024

Ding, R., Chen, B. , Wilson, J. M. , Yan, Z. and Huang, Y. (2024) SRNI-CAR: A Comprehensive Dataset for Analyzing the Chinese Automotive Market. In: 2023 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2023), Sorrento, Italy, 15-18 December, pp. 3405-3412. ISBN 9798350324457 (doi: 10.1109/BigData59044.2023.10386203)

2023

Wilson, J. and Favotto, A. (2023) From seedlings to ships: supply chain and production management in the Venice Arsenale, 1400-1800. Journal of Management History, (doi: 10.1108/JMH-10-2022-0056) (Early Online Publication)

2021

Wilson, J. M. (2021) Implementing and operating the Portsmouth Block Mill, 1803-1812. Business History, 63(5), pp. 795-825. (doi: 10.1080/00076791.2019.1645125)

2020

Wilson, J. M. and Favotto, A. (2020) Industrial topiary: bending trees for building ships. Topiarius, 24(Summer), pp. 32-35.

2018

Wilson, J. M. (2018) Deconstructing the re-invention of operations management. Journal of Management History, 24(2), pp. 128-155. (doi: 10.1108/JMH-06-2017-0028)

2016

Wilson, J. M. and Favotto, A. (2016) From Seedlings to Ships: Supply Chain Management in the Venice Arsenale, 1320-1800. British Academy of Management Conference (BAM2016), Newcastle, UK, 06-08 Sep 2016. (Unpublished)

Wilson, J. M. (2016) The origin of materials requirements planning in Frederick W. Taylor's planning office. International Journal of Production Research, 54(5), pp. 1535-1553. (doi: 10.1080/00207543.2015.1092616)

2015

Wilson, J. M. (2015) Management in the Portsmouth Block Mill, 1803-1812. In: Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 6-11 Aug 2015,

Wilson, J. M. (2015) Performance-based pay: alternative interpretations of the Portsmouth Block Mills’ Savings. Journal of Management History, 22(3), pp. 269-297. (doi: 10.1108/jmh-04-2016-0019)

Wilson, J. (2015) Ford’s development and use of the assembly line, 1908–1927. In: Bowden, Bradley and Lamond, David (eds.) Management History: Its Global Past and Present. Series: Management history: global perspectives. Information Age Publishing Inc: Charlotte, NC, pp. 71-92. ISBN 9781681231853

Wilson, J. M. (2015) Management in the Portsmouth Block Mill, 1803-1812. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2015(1), 10033. (doi: 10.5465/AMBPP.2015.122)

2014

Wilson, J.M. (2014) Henry Ford vs. assembly line balancing. International Journal of Production Research, 52(3), pp. 757-765. (doi: 10.1080/00207543.2013.836616)

2012

McKinlay, A. and Wilson, J. (2012) ‘All they lose is the scream’: Foucault, Ford and mass production. Management and Organizational History, 7(1), pp. 45-60. (doi: 10.1177/1744935911427219)

2011

Wilson, J. and Moutinho, L. (2011) Financial impact of tourism marketing. In: Moutinho, L. (ed.) Strategic Management in Tourism. CABI: Wallingford, pp. 219-235. ISBN 9781845935887

Wilson, J.M. (2011) Reconsidering Ford’s Highland Park assembly line: new data vs. old ideas. In: 71st Annual Academy of Management Meeting, San Antonio, TX, USA, 12-16 Aug 2011, pp. 1-6. (doi: 10.5465/AMBPP.2011.65869138)

Wilson, J. M. and Moutinho, L. (2011) Financial Management in Tourism. In: Moutinho, Luiz (ed.) Strategic Management in Tourism. CABI: Wallingford, England, pp. 207-218. ISBN 9781845935887

2010

Wilson, J. and McKinlay, A. (2010) Rethinking the assembly line: organization, performance and productivity in Ford Motor Company, c. 1908-1927. Business History, 52(5), pp. 760-778. (doi: 10.1080/00076791.2010.499425)

Wilson, J. and Moutinho, L. (2010) Marketing & resource allocation in financial management. In: Moutinho, L. and Southern, G. (eds.) Strategic Marketing Management: A Business Process Approach. Cengage Learning EMEA: Hampshire, UK. ISBN 9781844800001

Wilson, J. and Moutinho, L. (2010) Marketing and its implications for financial management. In: Moutinho, L. and Southern, G. (eds.) Strategic Marketing Management: A Business Process Approach. Cengage Learning EMEA: Hampshire, UK. ISBN 9781844800001

2003

Wilson, J.M. (2003) Gantt charts: A centenary appreciation. European Journal of Operational Research, 149(2), pp. 430-437. (doi: 10.1016/S0377-2217(02)00769-5)

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