largely to the pioneering works of

1954; Donham, 1949). Since that time, it has become a very popular vehicle in im-parting knowledge in business schools across the country. With particular ref-erence to courses in operations manage-ment, Bandyopadhyay (1994) made a strong recommendation for a greater emphasis on using the case approach as opposed to the conventional lecture method. Osigweh (1989) has enumer-ated many major sets of appeals for the case approach over the conventional methods of teaching. The case method-ology focuses on “doing ” in a class