- Ph.D. in Operations Management, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 1991
- M.B.A., Michigan State
University, East Lansing, MI, 1986
- B.S. in Chemistry, Central
Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI, 1972
Lawrence D. Fredendall received his
MBA from Michigan State University in 1986. He received his Ph.D. in
from Michigan State University in 1991. He is an Associate Professor
of Management at Clemson University, where he studies how firms
implement and maintain their lean production programs with a
particular interest in their use of quality management and
environmental management systems throughout their supply chains.
This research incorporates an understanding of how systems are
designed and operated to complete work.
Lawrence Fredendall has published more
than 35 research articles and books including a book published by
The St. Lucie Press/APICS Series titled: Basics of Supply Chain
Management. In 2006, he received the Chan K. Hahn Best Paper
Award from the Operations Management Division of the Academy of
Management for a paper co-authored with Xingxing Zu, one of his
advisees. In 2005 his advisee, Tipparat Laohavichien, won the Elwood
S. Buffa Doctoral Dissertation Award Competition at the Decision
Sciences Conference.
Some recent publications include:
Lea, Bih-Ru, and L. D. Fredendall,
“The impact of management accounting, product structure, product mix
algorithm, and planning horizon on manufacturing performance,”
International Journal of Production Economics, 79, 279-299,
2002.
Douglas, Thomas J. and Lawrence D. Fredendall, “Evaluating
the Deming Management Model of Total Quality in Services.”
Decision Sciences Journal 35, (3, Summer), 393-422, 2004.
Fredendall, Lawrence D.,
Chris Hopkins and Amitsinh Bhonsle.
“Purchasing’s Internal Service Performance: Critical External
and Internal Determinants.” The Journal of Supply Chain
Management, 41, (2, Spring), 26-38, 2005
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