Jack Meredith Best Paper Award 

Each year's Jack Meredith Best Paper Award recognizes a paper published in the Journal of Operations Management in the prior year. Department Editors voted on 6 papers nominated by the Editors-in-Chief. Award prize: $2,000 shared among authors.


2025 

An empirical analysis of process improvement from best practice adoption: A study of stroke care best practices.  

Brandon Lee, Lawrence Fredendall, Aleda Roth, Shannon Sternberg, Bernardo F. Quiroga. 70(4), 2024


2024 

Demand Planning for the Digital Supply Chain

Rebekah Brau, John Aloysius, Enno Siemsen. 69(6), 2023


2023

Emerging Technologies and the Use Case: A Multi-Year Study of Drone Adoption
Omid Maghazei, Michael A. Lewis, and Torbjørn H. Netland. 68 (6-7), 2022 


2022

Introducing Goods Innovation, Service Innovation, or Both? Investigating the Tension in Managing Innovation Revenue Streams for Manufacturing and Service Firms

Adrian Choo, Sriram Narayanan, Ravi Srinivasan, Soumodip Sarkar. 67 (6), 2021


2021

The value of process friction: The role of justification in reducing medical costs

Jillian A. Berry Jaeker and Anita L. Tucker. 66 (1-2), 2020


2020

Hessam Bavafa and Christian Terwiesch. 65 (7), 2019

Frank Wiengarten, Di Fan, Mark Pagell, Chris K.Y. Lo. 65(6), 2019


2019

George P. Ball, Rachna Shah and Kaitlin D. Wowak. 58-59 (1), 2018

Verónica H. Villena and Dennis A. Gioia. 64 (1), 2018


2018

Why in the world did they reshore? Examining small to medium-sized manufacturer decisions

John V.Gray, Gökçe Esenduran, M. Johnny Rungtusanatham and Keith Skowronski 49-51 (1), 2017


2017 (Temporary criteria change for award nominations and evaluations)

Revisiting the Arcs of Integration: Cross-validations and extensions

Tobias Schoenherr and Morgan Swink. 30 (1-2), 2012


2016 (Temporary criteria change for award nominations and evaluations)

Supply Chain Collaboration: Impact on Collaborative Advantage and Firm Performance

Mei Cao and Qingyu Zhang. 29 (3), 2011


2015 (Temporary criteria change for award nominations and evaluations)

The Impact of Supply Chain Integration on Performance: A Contingency and Configuration Approach

Barbara B. Flynn, Baofeng Huo, and Xiande Zhao. 28 (1), 2010


2014

Sequence Effects in Service Bundles: Implications for Service Design and Scheduling

Michael Dixon and Rohit Verma. 31 (3), 2013


2013

The Competitive Determinants of a Firm's Environmental Management Activities: Evidence from US Manufacturing Industries

Christian Hofer, David E. Cantor and Jing Dai. 30 (1-2), 2012


2012

Product Safety and Security in the Global Supply Chain:  Mitigating Product Safety and Security Risks

Cheri Speier, Judith M. Whipple, David J. Closs and M. Douglas Voss. 29 (8), 2011


2011

Evaluating Buyer–Supplier Relationship–Performance Spirals: A Longitudinal Study

Chad W. Autry and Susan L. Golicic. 28 (2), 2010


2010

Performance Analysis of a Focused Hospital Unit: The Case of an Integrated Trauma Center

Nancy L. Hyer , Urban Wemmerlöv, and John A. Morris Jr. 27 (3), 2009


2009

Understanding Behavioral Sources of Process variation Following Enterprise System Deployment

Elliot Bendoly and Mark Cotteleer. 26 (1), 2008


2008

Outsourcing Impact on Manufacturing Firms’ Value: Evidence from Japan

Bin Jiang, James A. Belohlav, Scott T. Young. 25 (4), 2007


2007

A Behavioral Study of Supply Manager Decision-Making: Factors Influencing Make Versus Buy Evaluation

Susan Powell Mantel, Mohan V. Tatikonda, and Ying Liao. 24 (6), 2006


JOM Ambassador Paper Award

Each year's JOM Ambassador Paper Award recognizes the paper published between a 5-year window ending in the prior year, with the most journal citations outside a list of core operations management journals (DSJ, IJFCM, IJLM, IJLRA, IJOPM, IJPDLM, IJPE, IJPR, JBL, JCP, JMTM, JOM, JPSM, JSCM, JSM, MSOM, MSOM, Omega, OMR, OSCM, POM, PPC, SCM and TQM&BE). Award prize: $1,000 shared among authors. 

2025

Strengthening supply chain resilience during COVID-19: A case study of JD.com

Zuojun Max Shen, Yiqi Sun. 

Volume 69, Issue 3, 359-383. 2023. 


2024

Modelling Supply Chain Adaptation for Disruptions: An Empirically Grounded Complex Adaptive Systems Approach 

Kang Zhao, Zhiya Zuo, Jennifer V. Blackhurst

Volume 65, Issue 2, 190-212, 2019


2023

Green Supply Chain Management in Chinese Firms: Innovative Measures and the Moderating Role of Quick Response Technology

Guo Li, Lin Li, Tsan-Ming Choi, and Suresh P. Sethi

Volume 66, Issues 7-8, 2020 


2022

Attention by design: Using attention checks to detect inattentive respondents and improve data quality

James D. Abbey and Margaret G. Meloy

Volume 53-56, Issue 1, 2017


2021

Resource Based Theory in Operations Management Research

Michael A. Hitt, Kai Xu, and Christina Matz Carnes

Volume 41, Issue 1, 2016


2020

Performance outcomes of supply chain agility: When should you be agile?

David M. Gligor, Carol L. Esmark, and Mary C. Holcomb

Volumes 33-34, Issue 1, 2015


2019

Revisiting the Interplay Between Contractual and Relational Governance: A Qualitative and Meta-analytic Investigation

Zhi Cao and Fabrice Lumineau

Volumes 33-34, Issue 1, 2015


2018

Servitization: disentangling the impact of service business model innovation on manufacturing firm performance

Ivanka Visnjic Kastalli and Bart Van Looy 

Volume 31, Issue 4, 2013

JOM Beacon Award

The Journal of Operations Management is excited to introduce the JOM Beacon Paper Award, granted to the JOM paper published in the preceding five years that has attracted most interest by the media, researchers, and practitioners. The purpose of the award is to motivate scholars to increase the visibility and impact of their work beyond scholarly circles. A preliminary list of finalist will be obtained using Altmetric Explorer, which monitors the attention received by published research across social media, news outlets, policy, patents, and more. The sources of media attention for those finalist will be reviewed by the EiCs to make a final selection of the award recipient. The award will be announced in the following year’s JOM mini-conference and includes with a $1,000 prize to be shared among authors.

2023

Yeojun Chun, Shannon L. Harris, Aravind Chandrasekaran, Kristen Hill.

Improving care transitions with standardized peer mentoring: Evidence from intervention based research using randomized control trial. 

Volume 68, Issue 2,185-214, 2022.


JOM Associate Editor Award

Initial screening for each year's JOM Associate Editor Service Award is based on prior year data for number of AE reports, acceptance of invitations, and timeliness. The Editors-in-Chief conduct a further evaluation of Associate Editors based on quality, insight, and developmental tone.  Award prize: $1,000.

2025 Winners: Jason Miller - Honorable Mention: Scott DuHadway, Jeff Shockley

2024 Winners: Howard Chuang and Kaitlin Wowak - Honorable Mention: Mark Frohlich

2023 Winner: Keith Skowronski - Honorable Mentions: Frank Wiengarten

2022 Winner:  Guanyi Lu - Honorable Mentions: Bernardo Quiroga, Sriram Thirumalai

2021 Winner:  Jan Holmstrom - Honorable Mentions: Sachin Modi

2020 Winner:  Tingting Yan - Honorable Mentions: David Cantor, Guangzhi Shang, Keith Skowronski

2019 Winner:  Sean Handley - Honorable Mentions: Christian Hofer

2018 Winners:  Jeffery Smith and James Abbey  - Honorable Mentions: Jason Miller

JOM Reviewer Service Award

Initial screening for each year's JOM Reviewer Service Award is based on prior year data for number of reviews, reviewer ratings, and timeliness. The Editors-in-Chief conduct a further evaluation of reviewers based on quality, insight, and developmental tone. Award prize: $1,000.  

2025 Winner: David Dreyfus - Honorable Mentions: Dwaipayan Roy, Xiaojin Liu

2024 Winner: Yuanzhu Zhan - Honorable Mentions: Han Kyul Oh, Justin Kistler, Seongkyoon Jeong

2023 Winner: Di Fan - Honorable Mentions: Dayna Simpson, Travis Tokar 

2022 Winner:  Sriram Venkataraman - Honorable Mentions: Huseyn Abdulla, Di Fan

2021 Winner:  George Ball - Honorable Mentions: Jury Gualandris, Merieke Stevens

2020 Winner:  Guanyi Lu - Honorable Mentions: George Ball, Isik Bicer, Scott DuHadway

2019 Winner:  Keith Skowronski - Honorable Mentions: Jeff Shockley

2018 Winner:  Guanzi Shang  - Honorable Mentions: Cuneyt Eroglu, Jan Holmström, Verónica Villena, Tingting Yan