As the M&SOM journal ushers in a new year and the creation of new departments, we wanted to share with the INFORMS community the updated editorial statement for the Manufacturing and Supply Chain department.
The Manufacturing and Supply Chain department of M&SOM aims to publish the best research in established and emerging areas of operations management. The core values of the department include intellectual depth, innovative thinking and value to applications. The department welcomes papers with rigorous and innovative analysis and papers with the potential for translatable actions and impact in practice. We aim to promote interdisciplinary research that is consistent with our core values.
We welcome papers that use a wide variety of methodologies, both descriptive as well as prescriptive in nature including but not limited to optimization, applied probability, game theory, econometrics, algorithm design, behavioral and decision science and simulation. We encourage work in emerging areas of operations that have historically been understudied and are of increased importance in today's global economy.
We very much look forward to receiving and shepherding through the review process new (and perhaps risky) research in an inclusive and thoughtful manner.
Regards,
Wedad Elmaghraby and Mahesh Nagarajan
Department Editors for the Manufacturing and Supply Chain department
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Wedad Elmaghraby
Professor
University of Maryland
College Park MD
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