OM Forum

An OM Forum manuscript offers responsible views on the history, status, and future prospects of OM research and managerial practice. Contributions may be short or long, and may comment on earlier material appearing in the journal. In contrast to survey papers, OM Forum offers general opinions and perspectives on the field, rather than detailed coverage of specific research results. The goal of the OM Forum category, in short, is to provide an outlet for thought leadership and critical discourse within the OM research community.

OM Forum contributions are by invitation of the Editor.  Papers are selected based on the interest and importance of the topic to the OM research community, the authoritativeness of the author(s), and the quality of exposition. Submissions are reviewed as appropriate to provide constructive feedback to authors.

Working with Practitioners in Operations Management
Haijian Si, Meng Li, Christoph H. Loch
Volume 27, Issue 5, September–October 2025

Barriers to Implementing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Programs in Supply Chains: Lessons from Comparing Public and Private Firms
Timofey Shalpegin, Tyson R. Browning, Ajay Kumar
Volume 27, Issue 2, March–April 2025

Operations Management Research: Relevance and Impact
Jayashankar M. Swaminathan
Volume 27, Issue 1, January–February 2025

Asset-Level Perspectives on the Clean Energy Transition
Nicola Secomandi
Volume 27, Issue 1, January–February 2025

The Best of Both Worlds: Machine Learning and Behavioral Science in Operations Management
Andrew M. Davis, Shawn Mankad, Charles J. Corbett, Elena Katok
Volume 26, Issue 5, September–October 2024

The Operations of Well-Being: An Operational Take on Happiness, Equity, and Sustainability
Charles J. Corbett
Volume 26, Issue 2, March–April 2024

In-Person or Virtual? What Will Operations Management/Research Conferences Look Like?
Antonio Cavallin Toscani, Atalay Atasu, Luk N. Van Wassenhove, and Andrea Vinelli
Volume 26, Issue 1, January–February 2024

Supply Chain Finance Redefined: A Supply Chain-Centric Viewpoint of Working Capital, Hedging, and Risk Management
Panos Kouvelis
Volume 25, Issue 6, November–December 2023

A Vision of Responsible Research in Operations Management
Serguei Netessine
Volume 24, Issue 6, November–December 2022

Reducing Food Waste: An Operations Management Research Agenda
Arzum Akkaş and Vishal Gaur
Volume 24, Issue 3, May–June 2022

Pandemics/Epidemics: Challenges and Opportunities for Operations Management Research
Sushil Gupta, Martin K. Starr, Reza Zanjirani Farahani, and Nasrin Asgari
Volume 24, Issue 1, January–February 2022

Enabling Smarter Cities with Operations Management
Ho-Yin Mak
Volume 24, Issue 1, January–February 2022

Supply Chain Thinking in Healthcare: Lessons and Outlooks
Lidia Betcheva, Feryal Erhun, and Houyuan Jiang
Volume 23, Issue 6, November–December 2021

People-Centric Operations: Achievements and Future Research Directions
Guillaume Roels and Bradley R. Staats
Volume 23, Issue 4, July–August 2021

Perspectives on Policy Modeling: 2018 MSOM Fellow Award
Edward H. Kaplan
Volume 23, Issue 2, March–April 2021

Healthcare Operations Management: A Snapshot of Emerging Research
Tinglong Dai, Sridhar Tayur
Volume 22, Issue 5, September–October 2020

Challenges and Strategies in Managing Nonprofit Operations: An Operations Management Perspective
Gemma Berenguer and Zuo-Jun (Max) Shen
Volume 22, Issue 5, September–October 2020

COVID-19 Scratch Models to Support Local Decisions
Edward H. Kaplan
Volume 22, Issue 4, July–August 2020

A Review of Empirical Operations Management over the Last Two Decades
Christian Terwiesch, Marcelo Olivares, Bradley R. Staats, and Vishal Gaur
Volume 22, Issue 4, July–August 2020

Innovative Online Platforms: Research Opportunities
Ying-Ju Chen, Tinglong Dai, C. Gizem Korpeoglu, Ersin Körpeoğlu, Ozge Sahin, Christopher S. Tang, and Shihong Xiao
Volume 22, Issue 3, May–June 2020

Distributed Ledgers and Operations: What Operations Management Researchers Should Know About Blockchain Technology
Volodymyr Babich and Gilles Hilary
Volume 22, Issue 2, March–April 2020

Empirical Research in Operations Management: From Field Studies to Analyzing Digital Exhaust
Christian Terwiesch
Volume 21, Issue 4, Fall 2019

New Opportunities for Operations Management Research in Sustainability
Vishal V. Agrawal, Atalay Atasu, and Luk N. Van Wassenhove
Volume 21, Issue 1, Winter 2019

Benchmarking Global Production Sourcing Decisions: Where and Why Firms Offshore and Reshore
Morris A. Cohen, Shiliang Cui, Ricardo Ernst, Arnd Huchzermeier, Panos Kouvelis, Hau L. Lee, Hirofumi Matsuo, Marc Steuber, and Andy A. Tsay
Volume 20, Issue 3, Summer 2018

An Essay on Operations Management
Sridhar Tayur
Volume 19, Issue 4, Fall 2017

Causal Inference Models in Operations Management
Teck-Hua Ho, Noah Lim, Sadat Reza, and Xiaoyu Xia
Volume 19, Issue 4, Fall 2017

Three Simple Approaches for Young Scholars to Identify Relevant and Novel Research Topics in Operations Management
Christopher S. Tang
Volume 19, Issue 3, Summer 2017

Supply-Chain Contracting: Doughnuts to Bubbles
Martin A. Lariviere
Volume 18, Issue 3, Summer 2016

Making OM Research More Relevant: "Why? and How?"
Christopher Tang
Volume 18, Issue 2, Spring 2016

Practice-Based Research in Operations Management: What It Is, Why Do It, Related Challenges and How to Overcome Them
Jeremie Gallien, Stephen C. Graves, and Alan Scheller-Wolf
Volume 18, Issue 1, Winter 2016

The Service and Information Economy: Research Opportunities
Uday Karmarkar
Volume 17, Issue 2, Spring 2015

OM Research: From Problem Driven to Data Driven Research
David Simchi-Levi
Volume 16, Issue 1, Winter 2014

Operations Management Challenges for Some "Cleantech" Firms
Erica L. Plambeck
Volume 15, Issue 4, Fall 2013

Business Model Innovation for Sustainability
Karan Girotra and Serguei Netessine
Volume 15, Issue 4, Fall 2013

Sustainable Operations Management: An Enduring Stream or a Passing Fancy?
David E. Drake and Stefan Spinler
Volume 15, Issue 4, Fall 2013

Offered Load Analysis for Staffing
Ward Whitt
Volume 15, Issue 2, Spring 2013

Three Rs of Operations Management: Research, Relevance, and Rewards
Jan A. Van Mieghem
Volume 15, Issue 1, Winter 2013

The Vital Role of Operations Analysis in Improving Healthcare Delivery
Linda V. Green
Volume 14, Issue 4, Fall 2012

•  Commentaries to "The Vital Role of Operations Analysis in Improving Healthcare Delivery"

What Is Interesting in Operations Management?
Gerard P. Cachon
Volume 14, Issue 2, Spring 2012

Some Lessons on Operations Management Model Implementation Drawn from the RAND Fire Project
Peter J. Kolesar
Volume 14, Issue 1, Winter 2012