Entries categorized as ‘Operations management’
“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
Authors are well advised to check out editorial policies on review processes. While you may assume sending a paper to a international “peer reviewed” journal assures you of a blind review process, some even “better” journals (such as the International Journal of Production Economics) only subscribe to a single-blind review – i.e. authors do not know who their reviewers are but reviewers certainly do know who the authors are. This is not to say there wouldn’t be good arguments to present for single-blind or even open reviews, the question is just why this is not openly stated in the journal’s editorial policy… So this is not blind, it’s just candid. More room for ring-a-ring-o’-roses. Nobody said it was easy to be a scientist
Gyöngyi
Categories: Academic journals · Journal ranking · Operations management · Research & Methodology
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
December 22, 2008 · 1 Comment
No, this is not about women and leadership, but yes about links between skills, gender, and logistics performance – a comparative survey of logisticians and their managers in three fields: business logistics, humanitarian logistics, and military logistics. Click here to fill in the survey – and send the link to your colleagues in the field!
Gyöngyi
PS. Here’s the link to be sent out: http://www.webropol.com/P.aspx?id=276853&cid=55080033
Categories: Humanitarian supply chains · Logistics · Operations management · Research & Methodology · Supply Chain Management · humanitarian · supply chain
Three amigos revisited? Think again. SCM has many more amigos that want to join, at least according to JBL’s first ever special issue (Vol.29 No.1). First Frankel et al. discuss SCM as a domain stemming from the four disciplines purchasing, operations management, logistics and marketing channels, but then Mentzer et al. instantly counter with an article evaluating SCM’s relationships to logistics, marketing, production, and operations management. Hm. Contrary to the separation of these disciplines when it comes to journal rankings, I believe the differences between all of these amigos are kind of blurry. Therefore I would like to join in Atle Nordli’s call for a blind-taste test (not unlike the Pepsi Challenge case), presenting scholars from all of these disciplines with forthcoming articles in any of the SCM-related journals, letting to guess them which journal is going to publish it. Atle’s hypothesis is that there is little to no difference between, say, JOM and SCM:IJ, TR:E, IJPE and JBL etc. (spin it further as you wish), as all the amigos nowadays refer to the concept of supply chain management, and claim to be in this “new” field. Anyone up for the challenge?
Gyöngyi
Categories: Academic journals · Logistics · Operations management · Supply Chain Management · Theory
For a variety of reasons, academics are always interested in journal rankings, so here is yet another one to add to the list of ranking articles we discussed on this blog, by Kovács, Spens and Vellenga (see the article here), published in the latest number of the International Journal of Logistics: Research and Applications. The take on ranking issues is a bit different, as the article discusses e.g. open access publishing, regional differences in rankings, as well as communities of logistics researchers and their rankings. Apart from the fact that it is IJPDLM that tops Nordic rankings (which has in fact been confirmed by Arlbjørn, Jonsson and Johansen), it is interesting to look at the correlations between particular communities (here the ones sticking out are transportation, ops mgmt, and logistics) across which researchers do not deem each other’s journals relevant and/or plainly do not know them. So much for the three amigos; though I do still hope Árni is right about SCM as a “discipline” may bridge the gap between them. It’s definitely time to break down the functional silos within our discipline, not just in companies!
Gyöngyi
PS. Once done, someone could actually answer the question of “what is a functional silo and why is it important” on WikiAnswers.
Categories: Journal ranking · Logistics · Operations management · Research & Methodology · Supply Chain Management
New SCM journals pop up all the time; the latest one taking an ops mgmt view again. Here’s the link to Operations and Supply Chain Management – an International Journal (OSCM). One could also dubb it the “open access SCM journal” as downloads (as for now) are for free, printed copies only obtainable for a fee. I particularly like Benita Beamon’s opening article on “Sustainability and the future of SCM” that does for a change not only look at green SCM, but broadens the scope to diverse societal implications of SCM. Quite in vein of Árni’s “SCM for societal impact“.
And we are still in search for a good name for our textbook on that topic… Any suggestions?
Gyöngyi
Categories: Academic journals · Humanitarian supply chains · Operations management · Supply Chain Management · Sustainability
I am teaching Operations Management this semester, including two lectures on Failure Prevention and Quality Management, respectively.
The core textbook (Slack et al. 2007, 5th Ed.) includes many illustrative case examples, but suffers from the physical, static format of the book. Pieces from the trade press and other business media can, however, be of help by providing some contemporary examples from “practice” (this why it is useful for students to become acknowledged with this debate). One of the more “interesting” references during the lectures has been…and here it comes, UK…Terminal 5. This story literally walked into the classroom.
If you search for some of the following on Google, a some evidence will appear that allows further “synthesis”: Terminal 5 March 2008 operations baggage milan failure chaos
This allows students to deal with contemporary management challenges that have not been discussed by editorial boards (or filtered through?) of case books (eeerhhmm).
I am not sure this is what my co-blogger Gyöngyi had in mind on this piece on “The gift of travel time“;) . I refer more and more to Mintzberg’s “Why I hate flying” in my lectures.
Árni
Categories: Operations management · Service management · Socks and sandals
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