Special Issues Actively Collecting Submissions
Socio-technical Dynamics under Technology-enabled Operational Change (Full Paper Submit Deadline: May 30, 2025)
Nascent Theory Development in Operations Management (Full Paper Submit Deadline: November 30, 2025)
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 or by internal deliberations among the EiCs. 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
Innovations, Technologies, and the Economics of Last-Mile Operations
Edited by Niels Agatz, Jan C. Fransoo, Elliot Rabinovich, Rui Sousa
March 2025
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
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
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
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)
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