Vicky Mabin
New Zealand management professor
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Victoria Jane Mabin, also van den Broek-Mabin, is a New Zealand management academic, and is a professor emeritus at Victoria University of Wellington. Mabin is a Fellow of the UK Operational Research Society and was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Theory of Constraints International Certification Organization.
Victoria Jane van den Broek-Mabin
- Variability in distribution (1981)
Vicky Mabin | |
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| Born | 28 December 1953 |
| Other names | Victoria Jane Mabin Victoria Jane van den Broek-Mabin |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Lancaster University Management School, University of Canterbury |
| Thesis |
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| Academic advisor | Hans G. Daellenbach |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Victoria University of Wellington |
| Doctoral students | Sarah Leberman |
Academic career
Mabin completed a Bachelor of Science with Honours at the University of Canterbury in 1975, where she was a student of Hans Daellenbach.[1] She then completed a PhD titled Variability in distribution at the Department of Operational Research at the University of Lancaster.[2][3] Mabin worked at DSIR before joining the faculty of Victoria University of Wellington in 1991, rising to full professor as Professor of Management in 2012.[3][4] Mabin was the Associate Dean (Teaching and Learning) for Victoria's School of Business for six years from 2008.[3][4] In 2020 she retired and was made emeritus professor.[4]
Mabin's research focused on operational research and the theory of constraints.[5] She has served as the President of the Operations Research Society of New Zealand.[3]
One of Mabin's notable doctoral students is Professor Sarah Leberman.[6]
Awards
In 2004 Mabin was elected a Fellow of the Operational Research Society in the UK.[7]
In 2018 the Operations Research Society of New Zealand awarded her the Hans Daellenbach Prize, which is awarded to 'distinguished contributors' of operational research.[1]
Mabin was part of a team of four researchers awarded the Griffiths Medal by the Operational Research Society (UK) in 2019 for the best article in the journal Health Systems in 2017–2018.[8]
Mabin was awarded a TOCICO Lifetime Achievement Award by the Theory of Constraints International Certification Organization in 2021, "in recognition for significant contribution to the TOC community to advance the TOC body of knowledge".[9]
Selected works
- Victoria J. Mabin; Steven J. Balderstone (1 June 2003). "The performance of the theory of constraints methodology: Analysis and discussion of successful TOC applications". International Journal of Operations & Production Management. 23 (6): 568–595. doi:10.1108/01443570310476636. ISSN 0144-3577. Wikidata Q130257682.
- Victoria J. Mabin; Steve Forgeson; Lawrence Green (1 March 2001). "Harnessing resistance: using the theory of constraints to assist change management". Journal of European Industrial Training. 25 (2/3/4): 168–191. doi:10.1108/EUM0000000005446. ISSN 0309-0590. Wikidata Q130257665.
- Victoria J. Mabin; Steven J. Balderstone (27 April 2020). The World of the Theory of Constraints: A Review of the International Literature. doi:10.4324/9780429273056. ISBN 978-0-429-27305-6. Wikidata Q130257692.
- Seonmin Kim; Victoria Jane Mabin; John Davies (February 2008). "The theory of constraints thinking processes: retrospect and prospect". International Journal of Operations & Production Management. 28 (2): 155–184. doi:10.1108/01443570810846883. ISSN 0144-3577. Wikidata Q56158540.
- J. Davies; V.J. Mabin; S.J. Balderstone (December 2005). "The theory of constraints: a methodology apart?—a comparison with selected OR/MS methodologies". OMEGA International Journal of Management Science. 33 (6): 506–524. doi:10.1016/J.OMEGA.2004.07.015. ISSN 0305-0483. Wikidata Q130257656.