Analysing courts as a professional service operations management environment

Petra Pekkanen, Tiina Puolakka and Timo Pirttilä

International Journal of Services and Operations Management, 2018, vol. 29, issue 3, 332-358

Abstract: The study provides an analysis of courts as professional service organisations and explores the specific features and challenges connected to operations management in courts. The analysis is based on the data and findings of case studies conducted in five courts. The data is analysed based on the perspectives identified in professional service operations management literature: nature of customer, nature of professional work and nature of work processes. The results indicate that the special nature of the court customer, the emphasised need for independency and autonomy of the judges, as well as great variation in product requirements pose distinct challenges to operations management. Improvement opportunities are discussed based on the identified challenges. Possible areas for improvement include for example orderliness and planning possibilities, as well as approaches aiming at improving the goal-orientation of operations.

Keywords: operations management; service sector; professional service; court. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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