Abstract
Although competition drives maintenance organizations to increase the maintenance performance of their physical assets, practitioners are struggling to continuously utilize new maintenance policies to do so. To conceptualize the impediments practitioners face, a systems perspective is used. A novel operationalization of the five requirements for effective control (De Leeuw, 2002) are applied to maintenance policies, which results in five propositions. The multiple case study reveals five control impediments for maintenance policies. Namely, the lack of: improvement goals, uncertainty of the effect of new maintenance policies, limited mandate, integral maintenance policy management, and the required information. Future research directions are given.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Conference proceedings of the 24th annual EurOMA conference |
Pages | 1-10 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Publication status | Published - 5 Jun 2017 |
Event | 24th International Annual EurOMA Conference 2017: Inspiring Operations Management - Edinburgh, United Kingdom Duration: 1 Jul 2017 → 5 Jul 2017 Conference number: 24 |
Conference
Conference | 24th International Annual EurOMA Conference 2017 |
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Country/Territory | United Kingdom |
City | Edinburgh |
Period | 1/07/17 → 5/07/17 |
Keywords
- Maintenance
- Improvement
- Continuous