Operations and Supply Management (OSM) Forum

Comment Here on "When is a conceptual framework also a theoretical contribution?"

When is a conceptual framework also a theoretical contribution?
Matthias Holweg (University of Cambridge)
Dirk Pieter van Donk (University of Groningen)

Welcome to the Operations & Supply Management (OSM) Forum

As editors of the Journal of Operations Management, we would like to encourage academic discussion and debate on issues of importance to the operations and supply management (OSM) community.  Therefore we invite authors to submit essays of between 1500 and 2000 words on a topic of interest to the JOM community.  Essays that are well written and of interest will be posted for review, deliberation and feedback.

This is a forum for you as an OSM scholar to comment on these essays with 300–500 word responses. After a period of time, we may (at our editorial discretion) bundle each essay with from 2 to 4 responses to form a single document and publish it in a future issue of JOM. Our hope is that this will serve as a forum for debuting new ideas, theories and methods of interest to the OSM community.

Please post your thoughts, comments and responses here.  Please provide  your name, university or business affiliation and email. To post anonymously, please simply enter “Anonymous” in the name field and anon@anon.edu in the required email field. If we proceed to publish any part of this in JOM, we will contact you for approval and review prior to publication.

Prior Essay (Commenting still active)

Paradigms, Revolutions, and Tipping Points: The Need for Using Multiple Methodologies within the Field of Supply Chain Management

Craig R. Carter (University of Nevada)
Nada R. Sanders (Texas Christian University)
Yan Dong (University of Maryland)

Comment Here on "Taking the Leap from Dyads to Triads"

Taking the Leap from Dyads to Triads: Buyer-Supplier Relationships in Supply Network

Thomas Y. Choi (Arizona State University)
Zhaohui Wu (Oregon State University)

Comment Here on "A Call for Changes in Research Practice"

A Call for Changes in Research Practice: A Note on the Adequacy of Single Respondents and the Identification of Key Respondents in Empirical Supply Chain Research

Mark Pagell (York University)
Daniel R. Krause (Queen's University Belfast)

 

Comment Here on "How to Do Research"

How to Do Research: Advice from stellar scholars in the POM field

Bin Jiang (DePaul University)

Comment Here on "Opportunities and Challenges for OSM Researchers"

Opportunties and Challenges for OSM Researchers - A Focus on COunterfeit Products in the Supply Chain

Mark Stevenson (Lancaster University)

Comment Here on "Too Much Theory, Not Enough Understanding"

Too Much Theory, Not Enough Understanding
Roger W. Schmenner (Indiana University)

Comment here on "Perspectives on the Productivity Dilemma"

Perspectives on the Productivity Dilemma

Paul Adler (University of Southern California)

Mary Benner (University Pennsylvania)
James Brunner (Harvard University)

John Paul MacDuffie (University of Pennsylvania)
Emi Osono (Hitotsubashi University)
Bradley Staats (Harvard University)
Hirotaka Takeuchi (Hitotsubashi University)

Michael Tushman (Harvard University)

Sidney Winter (University Pennsylvania)

 

 

Comment Here on "Integrating Political and Social Issues in Operations and Supply Management"

Integrating Political and Social Issues in Operations and Supply Management
Michael Maloni (Kennesaw State University)