This paper presents a literature review that intends to be complete including 209 papers on Production Management on footwear industry since 1980. Such a review has not yet been available on the Production Management literature. This review was organized by means of a classification encompassing 5 dimensions: paper origin, area of Production Engineering focused in the paper, sub area of Production Engineering focused, research procedure used, and the paper source. Once classified and organized, the literature review about Production Management on footwear industry was the base of a broad theme analysis. This analysis was based on two basic points: i) a quantitative study on the areas of Production Engineering focused in the papers such as the origin, source, and research procedure used and ii) a qualitative study on the main subjects and objectives discussed and met in those papers. The main contributions of this paper are being useful to increase the amount of literature available on Production Management in the footwear industry and suggestions for future researches.
Footwear industry; Production management; Literature revision
