JOM Forum

• Author: V. Daniel R. Guide,Mikko Ketokivi
• Date: 01 January 2016
• Published date: 01 January 2016
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jom.2015.11.005

Editorial

JOM Forum

The JOM Forum is a new section of the journal that showcases

invited essays from influential and experienced scholars from

both within and outside Operations Management. The idea is to

publish thought-provoking papers that both take stock of past

research and look to the future, challenging the way we think of

the discipline and our research. The papers published in the Forum

are meant to be unique in their style and approach. To this end, we

want to give more discretion and active voice to the individuals

who write them and allow more freedom to reflect the authors'

own style, thinking, and rhetoric. Above all, Forum papers are

meant to be provocative so as to lead us out of the box of conven-

tional wisdom. At the same time, they are meant to be empirically

grounded and rigorous, just like everything else we publish in the

journal.

The Forum contributions are by invitation only.Authors are cho-

sen by the editors based on research records, not only toOperations

Management but to other disciplines as well. Contributions are

peer-reviewedjust like all manuscripts submitted to us, but authors

are given more freedom to engage in speculation, explore new

ground, introduce new empirical contexts, and make connections

to other disciplines. As faras the Forum is concerned, all boundaries

are meant to be broken. To use KarlWeick's words, an ideal Forum

piece is a unique display of disciplined imagination.

We hope you enjoy this addition to the journal!

V. Daniel R. Guide Jr., Co-Editor

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Pennsylvania State University, United States

Mikko Ketokivi, Co-Editor

IE Business School - IE University, Spain

E-mail address: Mikko.Ketokivi@ie.edu.

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Corresponding author.

E-mail address: dguide@psu.edu (V.D.R. Guide).

Available online 10 December 2015

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