Call for Nominations—2015 M&SOM Best Paper Award

Each year Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (M&SOM) selects one paper for its Best Paper Award. This paper is deemed most deserving for its contribution to the theory and practice of operations management. To streamline the process, a committee will be appointed by the president of Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society in consultation with the M&SOM editor. The chairperson of the M&SOM 2015 Best Paper Committee is Professor Jan Van Mieghem (Northwestern University).

Nominations for this award will be accepted until March 30, 2015. All papers published in one of the prior three volumes of M&SOM (Volumes 14–16) are eligible. Nominations should be mailed to Professor Jan Van Mieghem ([email protected]), the Chair of the 2015 M&SOM Best Paper Award Committee.

All nominations will be handled as confidential input to be used only for the purposes of this award. Self-nominations are welcome. Each nomination should contain the following information:

• 1. Name, affiliation, and email address of the nominator(s).

• 2. Bibliographic reference of the nominated paper.

• 3 Statement of support for the nomination—the nominator(s) should discuss the significance of the paper's current and future contribution to the theory and practice of operations management. A typical nomination is on the order of one page.

The 2015 M&SOM Best Paper will be announced at the Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society’s summer 2015 conference. A subsequent announcement will be published in the journal along with the paper’s abstract and a statement from the committee highlighting the paper’s contribution. The authors of the Best Paper will share a \$2,000 cash award, provided by the Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society of INFORMS. Past recipients of the M&SOM Best Papers and the finalists are provided at http://pubsonline.informs.org/page/msom/msom-best-paper-award.