Since the role of operations management activity is a very critical factor in manufacturing and service sectors from practitioners and academicians’ perspective, this study attempts to compare the different perceptions and usage of 16 items in production and operations management field between two countries; namely Cambodia and Taiwan with respect to academic study. The importance and difficulty of the usage of those items are illustrated as well.
Half of 200 questionnaire surveys have been sent to manufacturing firm and service company managers in Cambodia and another half in Taiwan. Statistical tests were employed to analyze the data gathered including t-test, one-way ANOVA, and Spearman rank correlation coefficient.
The results indicated the perception on the importance and difficulty of those 16 items was different depending on the sector and location area. Moreover, the number of employees, organization age, and annual revenue were counted as factors influenced by the level of use of those items. It also demonstrated the rank correlation of the importance of field factor’s use in the two countries with the rank of the articles published in POM journals. These findings hopefully can assist businessmen, practitioners and academicians to understand more the differences of practical field and academic field.

Since the role of operations management activity is a very critical factor in manufacturing and service sectors from practitioners and academicians’ perspective, this study attempts to compare the different perceptions and usage of 16 items in production and operations management field between two countries; namely Cambodia and Taiwan with respect to academic study. The importance and difficulty of the usage of those items are illustrated as well.
Half of 200 questionnaire surveys have been sent to manufacturing firm and service company managers in Cambodia and another half in Taiwan. Statistical tests were employed to analyze the data gathered including t-test, one-way ANOVA, and Spearman rank correlation coefficient.
The results indicated the perception on the importance and difficulty of those 16 items was different depending on the sector and location area. Moreover, the number of employees, organization age, and annual revenue were counted as factors influenced by the level of use of those items. It also demonstrated the rank correlation of the importance of field factor’s use in the two countries with the rank of the articles published in POM journals. These findings hopefully can assist businessmen, practitioners and academicians to understand more the differences of practical field and academic field.

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