Dear Colleagues:
Happy Holidays!
Before the year ends, I write to thank all of you for your continued support of Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (i.e., the M&SOM journal).
I wish to report some of the highlights for the year of 2017.
- This is the first year for M&SOM to be on the Financial Times Top 50 journal list.
- As of December 24, 2017, we have received 449 original submissions. This record confirms the continued support from OM scholars from North America, Asia, Europe, and elsewhere. We continued to receive more submissions in the area of healthcare operations (15%), empirical OM (15%), and innovative operations (20%). More importantly, I wish to emphasize the fact that M&SOM embraces all research methods including OR-based/economic-based analytical methods, empirical methods, behavioral experiments, etc.
3. In June, 2017, Jérémie Gallien (LBS) and the academic and practitioner judge panels launched the Biennial Practice-Based Research Competition with great success.
4. In November, 2017, Gad Allon (Wharton) and the committee members from MSOM and Cianiao (Alibaba's logistics arm) launched the first Data-Driven Research Challenge co-sponsored by Cianiao.
5. In 2017, M&SOM has supported three special issues:
- People-Centric Operations – co-edited by Guillaume Roels (INSEAD) and Bradley Staats (UNC)
- Sharing Economy and Innovative Marketplaces – co-edited by Saif Benjafaar (Minnesota) and Ming Hu (Toronto)
- Responsible Operations and Supply Chain Management M– co-edited by Vinayak Deshpande (UNC) and Jayashankar Swaminathan (UNC)
6. Beginning from 2018, the journal of M&SOM will get a modern cover design so that all INFORMS journals have a common look and feel. To launch a new era fro M&OM, I worked with Mary Leszczynski of INFORMS to settle on the attached design that is based on my understanding about the journal of M&SOM:
- Color theme – Red represents our "enthusiasm", "passion", and "confidence" about research, and Green represents "innovation", "sustainability", "growth", etc.
- Chad graphics – The "embedded" nodes and arrows represent "process" and "flows" (materials, information, and financial) that capture the underlying theme for most OM research.
These achievements would not have been possible without the support from the authors, the reviewers, our editorial board members, our special issue editors, our guest editors, and our managing editor (Fran Moskwa) and various INFORMS staff members (Mary Leszczynski, Toni Riley, Matt Walls, and Meaghan White).
With your support, M&SOM will continue to serve as a preferred OM research outlet for articles that are innovative, relevant, and rigorous.
In closing, may 2018 bring you and your loved ones love, joy, and peace!
Sincerely yours,
Chris Tang.
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Christopher Tang
Professor
University of California-Los Angeles
Los Angeles CA
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