Judging Research Studies

Research choosen:

Field, Joy M. and Sroufe, Robert P. (2007). The use of recycled materials in manufacturing: implications for supply chain management and operations strategy, International Journal of Production Research, 45:18, 4439-4463. [Retrieved May 26,2012, from http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00207540701440287.]

The study by Field and Robert(2007) shows that it is clearly related to its literature review of others study. The purpose of this study is to examine a reverse supply chain issue that has not been previously addressed in the literature review.

For example, in page 4442,the literature review clearly state of other study on supply chain management and their study falls in the third category and is more narrowly focused on examining the affects of recycled materials in manufacturing materials on existing supply chain systems.

The problem statement also clearly stated of the impact of recycled material of does it effect on the cost ,time,management,etc on the supply chain management.

The issue with its hypothesis is that,this research knows what to aim but doesn’t clearly pointed out its hypothesis.The author should give the hypothesis in point form to make sure the reader are easy to understand of this research.

The methodology section of this research also do not has been clearly stated of who is their respondent and way of approaching their respondent.It only stated the independent and dependent variable of the research.The same problem also goes to their sample of who are their sample,and only shows the result of their sample.

Overall,their results and discussion also with reference are clearly stated which show management should aware more of the environmental issues,as the waste produce by manufacturer affect on the environment.