Call for Papers—Special Issue of Manufacturing & Service Operations Management: Interface of Finance, Operations, and Risk Management
Description
The goal of this special issue is to disseminate novel, insightful, and relevant research that unifies concepts from finance, operations, and risk management. All submissions must articulate the operational component of the research and must have a clear finance or risk management connection (but not necessarily both). Potential research topics include (and certainly are not limited to):
Supply chain finance
Interactions between financial claimholders and operational claimholders of a firm
Moral hazard and asymmetric information problems that arise when financial and operational claimholders interact
Novel channels of financing operational decisions
Propagation of financial information in supply chains
The effects of operational decisions of firms (financial and nonfinancial) on financial markets and financial markets’ efficiency
The use of financial markets to inform operational decisions
Novel financial and operational risks and their management
Meaningful applications of data analytics to operations-finance and operations–risk-management interfaces
Insurance and supply chain risks
Risk issues and hedging in commodity procurement
Revenue management: Risk and financial implications of dynamic capacity planning and pricing strategies
Special finance and operations interface topics in industries such as financial services, energy, commodity trading, shipping, and logistics
Operational and financial approaches in managing disruption and catastrophic risks in global supply chains.
Groundbreaking and boundary expanding ideas are particularly welcomed. Both theoretical and empirical analyses are encouraged.
Submitted papers should feature original research contributions, display the rigor emphasized in the editorial statement of M&SOM, clearly articulate their managerial relevance, and obey the journal’s author guidelines. The review process will be handled by the guest editors and an ad hoc set of associate editors.
Timeline and Process
Deadline for submission: December 31, 2015
First-round decision and feedback: March 31, 2016
Second-round submission (for those papers invited to revise): July 31, 2016
Final decisions: October 31, 2016
Authors wondering whether a current research project is a fit for the special issue are invited to email a short description (no more than one page) of their project to the co-editors. We will provide feedback on whether the topic meets the goals of the special issue. We will not evaluate the quality of the research based on the description. That determination will be left to the review process. (There is no requirement to submit a description before submitting a paper.)
