Category Archives: Operations management

Now: DSI

Posted on November 21, 2011 by | Leave a comment

DSI 2011 comes with insights to the state of the art research in logistics, humanitarian logistics (even as a keynote), green SCM, and sports stats – just how to share the blame, and more interestingly, how to attribute performance shares. There is a nice young talent showcase track, though there seems to be a lack of young talent overall, at least if one considers the relatively few applicants to lots of jobs that were interviewed for at the conference.

A take-away is a call for multi-disciplinary and multi-method research, though multi-disciplinary stands for the good old OR+marketing, and multi-method for anything empirical that feeds into a model. Funny we are still trying to bridge the gaps between all sorts of different streams that feed into SCM research, seemingly not successfully.

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IJPR seeking editor

Posted on October 24, 2011 by | Leave a comment

The International Journal of Production Research is seeking an editor to start in Jan 2012. The job description can be found here, applications are due on Nov 18, 2011.

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And the winner is…

Posted on August 12, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Not sure yet. But you can apply to become one :-)

The 2011 Emerald/EMFD doctoral disseration awards are once again up for grabs, deadline Oct 1, 2011. Two of them should be of interest to SCM researchers, with
- IJPDLM sponsoring one in “logistics and supply chain management”, and
- IJOPM another in “operations and production management”.
Other awards in this category include
- IIE’s Pritsker doctoral dissertation award (DL Dec 1, 2011)
- CILT UK’s James Cooper Memorial Cup (DL usually in May but for UK&Ireland students only),
- CSCMP’s doctoral dissertation award (DL also in May)
- and other organisations give similar awards, e.g. DSI,

There are also awards for (doctoral) dissertation proposals, e.g. SMRC’s dissertation proposal award (deadline usually in August), and even some of POMS’s subgroups have similar awards.

There are also scholarships and awards for logistics students on bachelors and masters levels, e.g. through SOLE’s logistics scholarship competition (next deadline should be May 15, 2012). CILT UK gives awards to undergraduate (bachelor or masters) dissertations as well but then again only to students of member universities. Similar awards are given in many other countries, check out your own associations.

Gyöngyi

PS. Again, this is not an exhaustive list, feel free to post other links to awards and their application deadlines in the comments.

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Recent ISI ratings of logistics / SCM journals – including new ones for JBL, IJPDLM, IJLRA

Posted on August 3, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Quite a few logistics and SCM journals got their first ever ISI rating* recently, including JBL, IJPDLM, IJLRA etc. Others are still in the queue and will probably get their first rate next year. But here is a list of some that already have a rating:

Let’s start with the “newbies” on the list – NB! the ratings are quite impressive and compare rather well to the “oldies”:

JBL: 3.905
IJPDLM: 2.617
IJLRA (IJoL): 0.558

And here are some others (in alphabetical order), with the 5-year rates in brackets if available:

Dec.Sci (DSJ): 2.233 (3.937)
EJOR: 2.158 (2.512)
IJOPM: 1.812 (2.792)
IJPE: 1.988 (2.411)
IJPR: 1.033 (1.469)
Interfaces: 0.826 (1.115)
JOM: 5.093 (6.029)
MS (ManSci): 2.221 (3.966)
Omega: 3.467 (3.733)
POM: 1.851 (3.147)
SCMIJ (SCM): 2.473 (3.427)
TJ: 2.348 (2.853)
TRE: 1.954 (2.516)

Ok, some disclaimers: This doesn’t include all MS/OR journals but the highest rate I found among those (so far) was MIS Quarterly with 5.041 (9.821). I may also just have missed some journals. So feel free to add them and their rates in the comments section!

Also, rates depend on whether journals that actually cite a journal are captured by the ranking system, how many numbers (and articles) a year a journal publishes etc.  Anyhow, this is it for now.

Gyöngyi

*abbreviations as follows: ISI rate = Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Knowledge rate from their Journal Citation Report; JBL = Journal of Business Logistics, IJPDLM = International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management, IJLRA (IJoL) = International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications. The rest can be found through the links.

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Literature review made easy

Posted on April 7, 2011 by | 1 Comment

There are lots of literature reviews and conceptual papers out there so this is not the thing. This “ListAssist” is making the start easier listing key articles and book chapters in particular areas denoting their content but also their methods. There are three within the area of “operations and logistics management”: logistics and supply chain management, humanitarian logistics, and sustainable technology management. A good start making research – and teaching – somewhat easier.

Gyöngyi

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Posted in Academic publications, Humanitarian supply chains, Logistics, Operations management, Research & Methodology, Supply Chain Management, Sustainability

A meta-ranking of OM journals

Posted on March 22, 2011 by | Leave a comment

… or rather, Petersen, Aase and Heiser (2011) used meta-analysis for looking at citation analyses of OM journals, linking them to different streams and disciplines. A bit like the three amigos, though they seemingly have more such friends, and these friends have quite different views on the journals in the analysis… Nice reading while all sorts of SCM journals are waiting for their first ever impact factor by Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Knowledge or whichever combination of these terms applies right now.

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Knowledge sharing in operations management

Posted on February 11, 2011 by | 5 Comments

At the forefront of sharing knowledge on how to teach operations management, here are two repositories of ops mgmt syllabi: one of the Academy of Management Operations Management Division (AoM), the other of the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS). There is also a teaching insights page of Emerald – but it would be great to have a similar collection of SCM courses for syllabus development…

Gyöngyi

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Posted in Education & Management Development, Operations management, Supply Chain Management

Getting published in operations management

Posted on August 19, 2010 by | Leave a comment

EurOMA is organising yet another publishing workshop for ops mgmt scholars. The best thing about it? Editors of OM journals (not just any journals but JOM and IJOPM) come to comment on papers and give guidance on how to convert them into articles. The target audience are OM researchers who are not native English speakers and who presented a paper at EurOMA. Congrats for introducing and keeping up this winning concept – now for the third time.

Gyöngyi

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2009 jumps in impact factors

Posted on June 28, 2010 by | 3 Comments

Notwithstanding all the good news of more SCM journals being evaluated for an impact factor, only few of them already received one. But there are quite some jumps to be noted in most of the other journals – maybe due to the cross-citations of the new ones? Here’s a list of impact factors for Elsevier journals in their decision sciences group (notably with the Journal of Operations Management making the biggest jump to an impact factor of 3.238, taking over Decision Sciences, Management Science and Omega in the rating), and some others:

Supply Chain Management – an International Journal: 2.341
Production and Operations Management: 2.08
Transportation Research Part E: 1.958
International Journal of Operations and Production Management: 1.435
Journal of Transport Geography: 1.421

Yes, it’s a convenience sample, but no, not all journals you may be searching for have a rating yet even if accepted to get one. It only takes some years in the ISI Web of Knowledge…

Gyöngyi

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Who reads conference papers?

Posted on June 11, 2010 by | Leave a comment

That’s the question Herbert Rotfeld asked in an essay on the ACR list. The point he makes is for ACR, AMA etc. but could well be made for say, Informs or CSCMP – that conferences that only publish abstracts lead to references to papers nobody read, and most importantly, nobody has access to. And it gets worse: track chairs don’t have the papers either, authors have stopped handing them out at their presentations, and if you ask for one, you probably get the answer that the paper is under review for a journal and can thus not be distributed. Hm.

The problem is of course that conference proceedings count as publications. As to say, there is a copyright issue with journals, and an issue of (self-)plagiarising. Plus it compromises the blind review process of a journal if everyone knows the paper and the author. Herbert’s own suggestion is to include the discussion at the conference as well as the presentation slides in the proceedings. But what about having papers in proceedings and then revising them substantially before submitting to a journal? The discussion should actually lead to something after all.

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