| Article ID: | iaor19901171 |
| Country: | United States |
| Volume: | 28 |
| Start Page Number: | 88 |
| End Page Number: | 95 |
| Publication Date: | May 1987 |
| Journal: | Production and Inventory Management Journal |
| Authors: | Ducharme Richard E., Lewis David A. |
What the production and inventory management profession believes is important (as represented by five areas of the APICS Body of Knowledge) and what professors in the same field teach are compared. The size of the academic/practitioner gap is assessed; it appears that progress has been made in reducing the gap, but it still exists.