Tautologies, models and theories--can we find "laws" of manufacturing?

"This is a revised version of Little (1992) in Manufacturing Systems: Foundations of World-Class Practice, J.A. Heim and W.D. Compton, eds."

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Little, John D. C.
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management
Format: Working Paper
Language:en_US
Published: Cambridge, Mass : Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/57511