Entries categorized as ‘Conferences’
“Meet the editors” at Euroma: JOM and (the new) IJOPM editors declared in unison that they were most interested in theory-driven, empirically based papers. In other words, nothing that does not take its parameters at least from an actual empirical study, and nothing that just suggest yet another (consultancy) ‘methodology’. Well, IJOPM did add their quest for more conceptual pieces that would challenge existing frameworks. But while these two are trying to move up in academic quality, rigor, and citation indices, another journal has been introduced with the aim of being a solid “B” journal: OM Review. Though as Andi Smart pointed out, not as if IJOPM had ever rejected a paper with the suggestion to submit it to JOM instead 
What else was new? Euroma 2009 had a number of special tracks, but the most overwhelming in number of papers was the one on ops mgmt in healthcare. It ran through the entire conference and even had parallel healthcare sessions.
Gyöngyi
PS Please post the link to OM Review if you find it – I haven’t come across any direct link, just many references to the journal.
Categories: Academic journals · Conferences · Journal ranking · Operations management
The theme of the year is “innovation in logistics”, not entirely surprising at a university where logistics is under the department of entrepreneurship (JIBS’ EMM department). The probably most interesting paper under the theme was on logistics innovation at Mackay memorial hospital. But apart from this, the conference theme could (especially after last year’s “beyond business logistics”) very well be “back to basics”. With some notable exceptions (humanitarian logistics, CSR/sustainability issues) the tracks are most classic: purchasing, logistics strategy, logistics and IT, transport and distribution, logistics modelling and simulation… Is logistics research going back to basics?
Gyöngyi
Categories: Conferences · Nofoma · Socks and sandals
Remember the times when academics met at conferences to discuss the newest results of their research, find collaboration partners, or even just to mingle? It seems these times are over. The latest trend at universities (blame it on the credit crunch, if you like) is to not support conference attendance any more. There is just one catch: presenting a paper at a conference is a first step towards a journal publication, especially if you get good feedback at the conference. And another: you won’t really know much about potential collaboration partners without ever meeting them. It’s not as if “upcoming” projects would ever be found on a website or in journal publications…
There is another problem with the “first step towards a publication” notion: some conference explicitly see their proceedings as publications and do not allow you to send them further to a journal (not even if you really worked on them later).
Will this be the end to academics going to conferences?
Gyöngyi
Categories: Conferences · Socks and sandals
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
In case you are searching for Nofoma on Google and other search engines, bear in mind that the research network is now hosted at www.nofoma.net
This site contains information of past and future conferences, and announcements of other research- and teaching related activities.
Árni
Categories: Conferences · Nofoma
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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
Why do we organise and attend academic conferences? Yes, here it comes, it’s the debate that matters. Discussing ideas, refining our arguments, getting feedback, input, maybe even co-operation partners. Unfortunately, this seems to be lost at some conferences. More and more academics only attend with papers of their “honours students”, reluctant to share their ideas, not wanting to even hint what they are actually working on. One may suspect they have no own ideas 
It’s funny how people think one may steal their brilliant idea. Sure, it happens, but such unethical behaviour always comes right back at those who do this. But usually the one who came up with an idea has a first mover advantage in any case (or does s/he?); having developed it much further than any copy-cat could follow up.
But well, it is a competitive environment, and I was just confronted with what a difference it can make to live in a publish-or-perish climate. If you don’t steal the other’s idea you’ll at least attempt to shoot it down at a conference… Where did the common goal of advancing science disappear? Publish or (and?) perish has been argued to kill the spirit of higher education, it seems to now kill the spirit of academic conferences. I have started to understand the EU’s stance of having to combine efforts for grant applications; it forces you to collaborate and to discuss your research throughout the process. It’s just sad we need to be forced to do so…
Gyöngyi
Categories: Conferences · Uncategorized
CSCMP has ventured out for several years to different continents. CSCMP Southern Africa was held in March in Johannesburg, right now ongoing is the CSCMP Europe conference in Brussels. It follows pretty much the same format as the original CSCMP one, with a research seminar (which in this case is just not called Educators’ Day and does not publish proceedings but rather sends out papers to be reviewed for the Journal of Business Logistics), and a main, rather practitioner-oriented conference. It’s a nice place for people from different European roundtables to meet – that is, if they come from a country where there is one. Maybe others might feel inspired to establish one…?
Gyöngyi
PS. Presentations of the main conference will be available from the CSCMP website. And the next CSCMP Europe conference will be held in Copenhagen.
Categories: Conferences · Supply Chain Management
Too good to be true, there is a “free” conference on Transport in Supply Chain Networks coming up at Cardiff Business School. For more info and to sign up, contact Rebecca Harvey at CUIMRC (what an acronym!).
Gyöngyi
Categories: Conferences · Supply Chain Management
