Issue Information

• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/joom.1051
• Published date: 01 July 2019
• Date: 01 July 2019

VOLUME 65 / ISSUE 5 / JULY 2019

JOURNAL OF

OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT

JOURNAL OF OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT VOLUME 65 / ISSUE 1 / JANUARY 2019

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MISSION STATEMENT

The mission of Journal of Operations Management (JOM) is to publish original,

empirical operations management research that demonstrates both academic

and practical relevance.

Academic relevance means the research contributes to on-going academic dis-

cussions and debates on relevant topics in operations management. All manu-

scripts published in JOM must, in one way or another, also transcend the imme-

diate empirical context in which the research is embedded. An ideal manuscript

is one that simultaneously takes the context seriously (is empirically disciplined)

and seeks some sense of generality.

Practical relevance means the manuscript links explicitly to an actual, relevant

managerial challenge. While manuscripts published in JOM do not necessarily

have to give advice to managers, they must have something non-obvious to say

about the practice of operations management. In preparing your manuscript,

ask yourself: Do I think I could keep a manager interested in talking about my

research for an hour? What would I say, what would I argue?

An ideal manuscript balances rigor with relevance and offers a novel aspect to a

topic of contemporary concern. Novelty does not necessarily mean focusing on

emerging phenomena; novel approaches to examinations of established phe-

nomena are equally interesting and relevant.

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