No Call for new SI Proposals is currently open

(last call was late March,  with deadline of June) 

Special Issue proposals at the Journal of Operations Management are considered on an annual basis after a formal call is made by the Editors-in-Chief (typically around the mid point of the calendar year). No unsolicited proposals for new Special Issues are considered outside of a Call for SI proposals. Generally, SI calls seek proposals that focus on a relevant topic or issue that is poorly understood, amenable to empirical investigation, and important for advancing our understanding of operations management; Consistent with JOM’s mission to publish original, empirical, operations management research that demonstrates both academic and practical relevance. 

Past Special Issues

Uncertainty in Operations and SC Management

Edited by Stephen Disney, Benn Lawson, Jan Holmstrom, Frits Pil, Christopher Tang 

December 2024

Operational Excellence in Utilities

Edited by Henk Akkermans, Wendy van der Valk, Finn Wynstra, Luk van Wassenhove 

September 2024

Pre-approved Research Designs for Field Experiments

Edited by Aravind Chandrasekaran, Rogelio Oliva, Bradley Staats 

July 2024

Operations Management under the Goal of Carbon Neutrality

Edited by Qingyu Zhang, Christina W. Y. Wong, Robert Klassen

April 2024


Closed-Loop Supply Chains with Product Remanufacturing: Challenges and Opportunities

Edited by Saurabh Bansal, V. Daniel R. Guide, Sergey Naumov

March 2024


Governing Large Inter-organizational Projects

Edited by Jens  Roehrich, Andrew Davies, Beverly Tyler, Anant Mishra, Elliot Bendoly

January 2024


Operations Management in the Age of Digital Transformation

Edited by Spyros Angelopoulos, Elliot Bendoly, Jan Fransoo, Kai Hoberg, Carol Ou, Antti Tenhiala

September 2023


Operations Management within a Sharing Economy

Edited by Alan Mackelprang, Sachin Modi, David Dobrzykowski, Paul Hong

June 2023


The Effects of COVID-19 on Global Supply Chains: Responsiveness, Resilience and Restoration (3Rs)

Edited by Xiang Li, Xiande Zhao, Hau Lee, Chris Voss

April 2023


Marketing-Operations Interface in Omnichannel Retailing

Edited by Robert Rooderkerk, Sander de Leeuw, Alexander Hubner, Nicole DeHoratius

March 2023


Mobility, Climate Change, and Economic Inequality

Edited by Merieke Stevens, David Keith, Jose Holguin-Veras

January 2023


Global Operations in the Context of Dynamic International Relations

Edited by Di Fan, Andy Yeung, Chris Tang, Chris Lo, Yi Zhou

December 2022


Technology Management in a Global Context

Edited by Gregory Heim, Xiaosong (David) Peng

September-October 2022


Innovation in Supply Networks

Edited by Subodha Kumar, Sriram Narayanan, Fabrizio Salvador

October-December 2020


Delivering Effective Healthcare at Lower Cost

Edited by Lawrence Fredendall, Anand Nair, Jeffery Smith, Anita Tucker

January-March 2020


The Digitalization of Manufacturing

Edited by Jan Holmström, Matthias Holweg, Benn Lawson, Frits Pil, Stephan Wagner

December 2019


A Complex Adaptive Systems Paradigm for Operations & Supply Chain Issues 

Edited by Anand Nair, Felix Reed-Tsochas

March 2019


Combining Simulation and Empirical Research Methods in Operations Management

Edited by Aravind Chandrasekaran, Kevin Linderman, Fabian J. Sting

November 2018


Competitive Manufacturing in a High-Cost Environment

Edited by Suzanne de Treville, Mikko Ketokivi, Vinod Singhal

March 2017


Supply Chain Management in Emerging Markets

Edited by Kevin Zheng Zhou, Chenting Su, Andy Yeung, S. Viswanathan

September 2016


Humanitarian Operations Management

Edited by Alfonso J. Pedraza-Martinez, Luk N. Van Wassenhove

July 2016


Professional Service Operations Management (PSOM)

Edited by Jean Harvey, Janelle Heineke, Michael Lewis

March 2016


System Dynamics: Emergence, Reinforcement, Adaptation and Traps

Edited by Elliot Bendoly, Kevin Linderman, Rogelio Oliva, John Sterman

November 2015


Service Triads: A Research Agenda for Buyer-Supplier-Customer Triads in Business Services

Edited by Finn Wynstra, Martin Spring, Tobias Schoenherr

May 2015


Implementing Operations Strategy for Competitive Advantage

Edited by Daniel Krause, William Youngdahl, Kannan Ramaswamy

November 2014


IT, Supply Chain, and Services

Edited by Viswanath Venkatesh

September 2013


Behavioral Operations

Edited by Rachel Croson, Kenneth Schultz, Enno Siemsen

January 2013

Product Safety and Security on the Global Supply Chain

Edited by Ann Marucheck, Noel Greis, Carlos Mena, Linning Cai

November 2011


Field Research in Operations and Supply Chain Management

Edited by Nicole DeHoratius, Elliot Rabinovich, Ananth Raman

July 2011


Operations management, entrepreneurship, and value creation: Emerging opportunities in a cross-disciplinary context

Edited by Jill R. Kickul, Mark D. Griffiths, Jayanth Jayaram, Stephan M. Wagner

January 2011


Culture, Development, and Operations Management Viewpoints in Asia

Edited by Elliot Bendoly, Bin Jiang, Richard Metters, Scott T. Young, Xiande Zhao

May 2010


Perspectives on Risk Management in Supply Chains

Edited by Srinivas (Sri) Talluri, Ram Narasimhan

April 2009


Research in Supply Chain Quality

Edited by S. Thomas Foster Jr.

July 2008


Offshoring of Service and Knowledge Work

Edited by William Youngdahl, Kannan Ramaswamy, Rohit Verma

March 2008


Supply Chain Management in a Sustainable Environment

Edited by Vaidyanathan Jayaraman, Robert Klassen, Jonathan D. Linton

Special Issue on Frontiers of Empirical Supply Chain Research

Edited by Tonya Boone, Ram Ganeshan

November 2007 (double)


Innovative Data Sources for empirically building and validating theories in Operations Management

Edited by Diane H. Parente, Thomas F. Gattiker

August 2007


Evolution of the Field of Operations Management

Edited by Linda Sprague 

Organization Theory and Supply Chain Management

Edited by David Ketchen , G. Tomas. M. Hult

March 2007 (double)


Incorporating Behavioral Theory in OM Empirical Models

Edited by Elliot Bendoly

Replication in Operations Management Research

Edited by Markham T. Frohlich, J. Robb Dixon

December 2006 (double)


Operations Management in Not-For-Profit, Government and Public Services: Innovative Applications and Case Studies

Edited by Rohit Verma, William Youngdahl, Curtis McLaughlin, Robert Johnston

June 2006


Operations Management Research In Process Industries

Edited by Dirk Pieter Van Donk, Jan C. Fransoo

April 2006


The Build to Order Supply Chain (BOSC) - A Competitive Strategy for the 21st Century

Edited by Prof. Angappa Gunasekaran

July 2005


Coordinating Product Design, Process Design and Supply Chain Design Decisions

Edited by M. Rungtusanatham, C. Forza

April 2005


Operations Management in Not-For-Profit, Public and Government Services

Edited by Rohit Verma

February 2005


Simulation Studies in Operations Management

Edited by Tim Smunt and Scott Shafer

August 2004


Managing the Interface between Marketing and Operations

Edited by M. Malhotra, S. Sharma

June 2002


New Issues and Opportunities in Service Design Research

Edited by R. Verma, J. Fitzsimmons, J. Heineke, M.M. Davis

April 2002


Configuration in Operations management: Taxonomies and Typologies

Edited by K. Boyer, C. Bozarth, C. Mc Dermott

November 2000


Linking Strategy Formulation in Marketing and Operations: Empirical Research

Edited by William L. Berry, Terry Hill, Jay E. Klompmaker,  Curtis P. McLaughlin

August 1991


Group Technology and Cellular Manufacturing

Edited by Urban Wemmerlöv

January 1991