From the Editors-in-Chief

▪️ Holding North: Recognizing identity and advancing contribution in operations management,  2024 70:4.

▪️ Reflecting on 6-years as co-editors-in-chief at JOM,  2023 69:8.

▪️ Operations management writ large, 2020 66:5.

▪️ New developments at the Journal of Operations Management,  2018 64:1.

▪️ One more time, it is not about cost!, 2017 49-51.

▪️ Ethical guidelines at Journal of Operations Management, 2016 42-43:1.

▪️ JOM Forum, 2016 41:1.

▪️ On the importance of revisiting what we (thought we) already knew, 2016 41.

▪️ Restructuring the Journal of Operations Management, 2015 38:1.

▪️ Redefining some methodological criteria for the journal, 2015 37:1.

▪️ After the Associate Editor Board Meeting, 2014 32:5.

▪️ Notes from the Editors, 2013 31:5.

▪️ Updates from the editors, 2012 30:7-8.

▪️ Letter from the editors: Journal status, 2009 27:6.

▪️ Letter from the editors: Journal status, 2008 26:6.

▪️ The operations and supply management (OSM) Forum, 2008 26:3.

▪️ Empirical elephants - Why multiple methods are essential to quality research in operations and supply chain management, 2008 26:3.

▪️ The state of JOM: An outgoing editor's (retro)spective, 2006 24:5.

▪️ 20th Anniversary of JOM: an editorial retrospective and prospective, 2002 20:1. {also: Reflections on OM research,  Five challenges for the OM research community, Reflecting back on 7 years, Writing the ideal paper for JOM}

▪️ Hopes for the future of operations management, 2001 19:4.

▪️ State of the journal and call for editorial nominations, 2001 19:1.

▪️ Debating the editorial philosophy of JOM, 1999 17:4.

▪️ Editorial report for Journal of Operations Management, 1998 17:1.


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

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

▪️ 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].