Entries categorized as ‘Call for papers’
Too many deadlines? Yes, that’s what January is all about, it’s a peak of deadlines for SCM-related conferences and special issues in journals – not to speak of the journal special issues that are linked to conferences.
- The Humanitarian Logistic Symposium of CCHLI is linked to a (yet to be announced) special issue of IJPDLM (yep, the deadline was on Jan 5),
- CSCMP Europe to a special issue of JBL (deadline today, Jan 9),
- NOFOMA to IJPDLM (deadline Jan 12)
- POMS to POM (deadline Jan 15)
- EUROMA to IJOPM (deadline Jan 16)…
… and that’s only the conferences with a deadline in January. Plus there are conferences that also have a deadline in January but are not all that visibly linked to journals. And special issues that are not related to conferences. Phew!
Gyöngyi
Categories: Academic journals · Call for papers · Conferences · Logistics · Nofoma · Operations management · Supply Chain Management
…though, if you truly are a service operations junkie, you are aware of SERVSIG’s newsletters. But for wanna-be junkies, here are three conferences of interest:
- the Frontiers in Services Conference, Oct 29-Nov 1, 2009 in Hawaii/USA (note the location!)
- a Service Conference & Workshop hosted by the Royal Automobile Club, Nov 5-7, 2009 in London/UK
- the SERVSIG International Research Conference, Jun 17-19, 2010 in Porto/Portugal
Interestingly, all of these attempt to build a bridge between services marketing, service operations management, and the newest fad, service science. In principle, all streams of literature and all schools should be represented.
Apart from these, there are a number of CFPs out for services-related special issues, e.g.on
- “Special section on new advances of risk management in services“ (The International Journal of Services Sciences, deadline Dec 31, 2008)
- “Lean principles in manufacturing, service and public sectors“ (International Journal of Technology Management, deadline Jan 1, 2009)
- “Global service supply chain management“ (Int’l Journal of Services, Economics and Management, deadline of extended abstracts Jul 10, 2009)
and book chapters are also called for, more specifically for the topics of service science and logistics:
- Call for chapters for a book on “Service Science and Logistics Informatics: Innovative Perspectives“. Proposals to be submitted by Jan 15, 2009 to Zongwei Luo
Gyöngyi
Categories: Call for papers · Conferences · Service management
“Reverse logistics” or “product returns” and “returns management”? “Disposal” or “waste management”? We are talking about the same issues, just use different terms whether we are at a marketing conference (hence product returns) or a logistics one (where we go as far as to talk about closed loop supply chains). In any case, marketers have now also opened their channels for more research on disposal, from it’s cultural and lifestyle elements to products and processes. So the Journal of Consumer Behaviour now calls for papers for a special issue “Unpacking disposal“. Deadline Mar 31, 2009.
Gyöngyi
Categories: Call for papers · Reverse Logistics
Good news for researchers in humanitarian logistics, there are more and more conferences setting up specific tracks, and a number of special issues calling for papers on humanitarian logistics, humanitarian supply chains, humanitarian operations… Here’s a bit of a selection:
Apart from POMS’ humanitarian group and INFORMS’ humanitarian track, now also the Transportation Research Forum (TRF) agreed to have a track on humanitarian logistics. (Abstract deadline Oct 31, 2008; contact Paul Larson). A track on “Humanitarian actions and operations” has also been included to the International Conference on Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM) conference. (Paper deadline Jan 11, 2009, contact Alexander Blecken.) Last but not least, both NOFOMA 2009 (Jönköping) and LRN 2009 (Cardiff) have humanitarian logistics tracks! (no wonder, both are arranged by HUMLOG Group members 
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Now to some interesting CFPs for special issues of different journals:
- Production and Operations Management calls for papers on “POM research on emerging markets“. Deadline Dec 1, 2008
- Interfaces calls for papers on “Humanitarian applications: doing good with good OR“. Deadline May 15, 2009
Updates can always be found on our wall 
Gyöngyi
PS. Note the NOFOMA website having changed to http://www.nofoma.net
PPS. More for humanitarian logisticians, the HUMLOG Group has a self-subscription newsletter (check out the instructions on their website) that is administered by the HUMLOG Institute.
Categories: Call for papers · Humanitarian supply chains · humanitarian
The International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management calls for papers on “The sustainable agenda and energy efficiency: logistics solutions and supply chains in times of climate change”. Deadline Mar 31, 2009; Until it’s not on the Emerald website contact the special issue editors Árni Halldórsson and Gyöngyi Kovács to receive the CFP
Gyöngyi
Update on Sep 15: now it is on the website – you can access the CFP here.
Categories: Academic journals · Call for papers · Carbon management · Logistics · Supply Chain Management · Sustainability
At times that we are talking about tracking and tracing, and different types of unique product ID:s (yes, mostly still RFID tags, just check out The Wall for all the RFID in the supply chain related CFPs, or CSCMP’s “connective technology” project that is calling for cases, white papers and academic papers*) it is almost a nostalgic issue to hear a “barcode beep”. So here it is. Let’s see at which point it will become almost-obsolete like old rotary landline telephones that one can nowadays see in design museums. But back to barcodes, if you come across one you want to check for its ownership and/or item description, here’s a website that does exactly that. Results can be quite surprising!
Gyöngyi
* Deadline for cases of 1-2 pages and “vision white papers” of 5-10 pages: Sep 30, 2008, to be sent to CSCMPResearch@cscmp.org
Academic papers should go to the Journal of Business Logistics directly
Categories: Call for papers · Socks and sandals
Logistics research takes many forms, but now a different type of conference invitation landed in my mailbox: one to a “military logistics symposium“. It’s in fact a research convention that’s organised by the Nordic Defence Logistic Research Network and takes place during Dec 4/5 in Stockholm. What makes it particularly interesting is that this research network is quite engaged in humanitarian logistics, and CIMIC research at the same time. Not to forget the traditional defence logistics topics that will come up as well.
Interested? Contact Per Skoglund [firstname.lastname@ihh.hj.se] or Michael Dorn [firstname.lastname@fhs.se] for more info. And don’t forget to send in an abstract by June 25, 2008!
Gyöngyi
Categories: Call for papers · Conferences · Humanitarian supply chains · Logistics · Supply Chain Management
Finally someone is taking web 2.0, 3.0 and x.0 seriously and wants to write a handbook on its use and implications for research, including social and cultural as well as ethical issues that might arise.
Chapter proposals are due on Apr 5, 2008 and should be sent to San Murugesan (san1@internode.on.net).
Gyöngyi
Categories: Call for papers · Popular science
Open access journals are (still) quite debated in SCM. First of all, there aren’t many. Second, they don’t (yet) figure on any rankings. Third, there are so many variations that most people are afraid of OA journals being of lower quality. Lower quality to what? There are heaps of academic journals in the D/E categories of rankings, no matter that they’ve been peer reviewed… (BTW, many OA journals are peer reviewed, though not necessarily “open peer reviewed“.)
Another question is the one of rankings vs. outreach – who is your audience, how many people do you want to reach with your article, and ultimately, how often do you want to be cited? Yes, outreach can even translate to citations…
On that note, I would like to welcome a new open access journal, “The Open Transportation Journal“. Most of it is as you know it from printed journals, with an editorial board, detailed notes to contributors, and an ISSN number (ISSN 1874-4478). But, there is no subscription fee – instead, a “publication fee” for authors(!) – while it is automatically indexed in e.g. Google Scholar. Outreach, here we go. Peer review? I don’t know…
Gyöngyi
Categories: Academic journals · Call for papers · Supply Chain Management
