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J. Op/ Res. Soc. Vol. 39, No.3, pp. 317-318, 1988 Printed in Great Britain. Operational Research Society Ltd Book Selection Edited by RICHARD EGLESE and MIKE PlOD L. J. KRAJEWSKI and L. P. RITZMAN: Operations Management-Strategy and Analysis 317 lAIN L. MANGHAM (Editor): Organisation Analysis and Development: A Social Construction of Organisational Behaviour 318 L. J. KRAJEWSKI and L. P. RITZMAN Addison-Wesley, Reading, Mass., 1987. 269 pp. £29.50 ISBN 0 471 91227 1 There is a type of American textbook which is instantly recognizable: thick, perhaps 700 or 800 pages, printed with wide margins and designed with very careful attention to the figures and layout. In the production and operations management field there are a number of texts of this sort: for example, the book by Buffa from Wiley, or that by Schroeder from McGraw Hill. Krajewski and Ritzman's book is of exactly this type. The title, 'Operations Management', is the term increasingly being used to describe what used to be called production management; the change of name reflects the fact that the techniques and approaches originally developed for the manufacturing sector are often just as valid in the service industries. This book is characterized by its emphasis on