Operations Management assignment. MBA - Finance and Banking.

Read the research paper Soosay, C., Nunes, B., Bennett, D. J., Sohal, A., Jabar, J., & Winroth, M. (2016). Strategies for sustaining manufacturing competitiveness: comparative case studies in Australia and Sweden. Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management.

And answer the following questions:

Part B - Analysis and reflections

5 - Compare the focus on reducing the cost era with the focus on quality era within the evolution stages that operations management has progressed through.

Introduction

Description (cost era v quality era)

Evolutionary stages

With references, please.

Thank you!