Topical / Broad Discussions in OM

• Rethinking Six Sigma: Learning from practice in a digital age, 2023 69:8.

• Toyota production system practices as fast-and-frugal heuristics, 2023 69:4.

• Empirically grounding analytics (EGA) research at the Journal of Operations Management, 2023 69:2.

• A lean view of lean, 2021 67:5.

• Socially responsible supply chains in emerging markets, 2018 57.

• What medicine can teach operations, 2010 28:5.

• Operations management research: an update for the 1990s, 1999 18:1.

• Guest editorial, 1998 17:1.

• May you live in interesting times... the emergence of theory-driven empirical research, 1998 16:4.

Special Issue Editorials

• Innovations, Technologies, and the Economics of Last-Mile Operations: A Call for Research in Operations Management, 2025 71:2 [SI]. 

• Possibility theory: A foundation for theoretical and empirical explorations of uncertainty, 2024 70:8 [SI]. 

• All along the asset life cycle: Research opportunities for operations and supply chain management, 2024 70:6 [SI]. 

• Registered reports in operations management: Lessons from an experimental trial , 2024 70:5 [SI]. 

• Carbon neutrality: Operations management research opportunities, 2024 70:3 [SI]. 

• Closed-loop supply chains with product remanufacturing: Challenges & opportunities, 2024 70:2 [SI].

• Large inter-organizational projects (LIPs): Toward and integrative perspective and research agenda on interorganizational governance, 2024 70:1 [SI].

• Digital transformation in operations management, 2023 69:6 [SI]

• Examining sharing economy operations: A process perspective, 2023 69:5 [SI].

• Building responsive and resilient supply chains: Lessons from the COVID-19 disruption, 2023 69:3 [SI].

• Advancing the marketing-operations interface in omnichannel retail, 2023 69:2 [SI].

• Global operations and supply-chain management under the political economy, 2022 68:8 [SI].

• Technology management in a global context, 2022 68:6-7 [SI].

• Innovation in supply networks - A research framework and roadmap, 2020 66:7-8 [SI].

• Delivering effective healthcare at lower cost, 2020 66:1-2 [SI].

• The digitalization of operations and supply chain management, 2019 65:8 [SI].

• Revisiting the complex adaptive system paradigm, 2019 65:2 [SI].

• Avoiding epistemological silos and empirical elephants in OM, 2018 63:1 [SI].

• Competitive manufacturing in a high-cost environment, 2017 49-51 [SI].

• Supply chain management in emerging markets, 2016 46 [SI].

• Empirically grounded research in humanitarian operations management, 2016 45 [SI].

• Professional service operations management, 2016 42-43 [SI].

• System dynamics perspectives and modeling opportunities for research in operations management, 2015 39-40 [SI].

• Service triads: A research agenda for buyer–supplier–customer triads in business services, 2014 35:1 [SI].

• Manufacturing - Still a missing link?, 2014 32:7-8 [SI].

• IT, supply chain, and services: Looking ahead, 2013 31:6 [SI].

• Behavioral operations: The state of the field, 2013  31:1-2 [SI].

• Product safety and security in the global supply chain, 2011 29:7-8 [SI].

• Field research in operations and supply chain management, 2010 29:5 [SI].

• Operations management, entrepreneurship, and value creation, 2010 29:1-2 [SI].

• “The way that can be told of is not an unvarying way”: Cultural impacts on OM in Asia, 2010 28:3 [SI].

• Perspectives on risk management in supply chains, 2009 27:2 [SI].

• Towards and understanding of supply chain management, 2008 26:4 [SI].

• Exploring new research frontiers in offshoring knowledge and service processes, 2008 26:2 [SI].

• Supply chain management in a sustainable environment, 2007 25:6 [SI].

• Innovative data sources for empirically building and validating theories in Operations Management, 2007 25:5 [SI].

• Incorporating behavioral theory in OM empirical models, 2006 24:6 [SI].

• Reflections on replication in OM research, 2006 24:6 [SI].

• Innovative operations management applications in not-for-profit, public and government services, 2006 24:4 [SI].

• Operations management research in process industries, 2006 24:3 [SI].

• The build-to-order supply chain (BOSC), 2005 23:5 [SI].

• Operations management in non-for-profit, public and government services, 2005 23:2 [SI].

• Simulation studies in operations management, 2004 22:4 [SI].

• Operations in today's demand chain management framework, 2002 20:6 [SI].

• Case study and field research, 2002 20:5 [SI].

• New issues and opportunities in service design research, 2002 20:2 [SI]. 

• Operations strategy for the new millennium, 2001 19:2 [SI].

• Configurations in operations: an emerging area of study, 2000 18:6 [SI].