“…Over the decades, there have been many qualitative studies that attempted to identify the major knowledge groups in OM (Meredith, 1979;Buffa, 1980;Chase, 1980;Miller et al, 1981;Mabert, 1982;Hill et al, 1988Hill et al, -1989Amoako-Gyampah and Meredith, 1989;Meredith and Amoako-Gyampah, 1990;Neely, 1993;Voss, 1984;Scudder and Hill, 1998;Pannirselvan et al, 1999;Gupta et al, 2006). Most of them, however, were focused on a particular journal, setting (manufacturing, services, practice), research method, or type of outlet (e.g., dissertations).…”