At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals were in dire need of data-driven analytics to provide support for critical, expensive, and challenging decisions. Yet, the majority of analytics being developed were targeted toward state- and national-level policy decisions, with little...

The operations management literature has recently begun to analyze how novel data sources help practitioners better understand product demand. We extend this stream of research by analyzing how air quality, a prominent environmental factor that has received little attention in prior studies, can...

Bicycle manufacturing supply chain management is central to providing product and services at the right place, right time, right delivery and right price. The way supply chains are operated has a massive impact on the speed and quality of service that can be provided. Supply chain risks and...

Agile approach and its practices are becoming more and more critical to many organisations in the face of accelerating global competitive pressure and customers' growing demands. While agility promises to bring values to business, organisations are facing a range of challenges in their agile...

Broad Planning is a general concept that sets a simple road map to a destination. The word was used at various levels to imply different items. Planning involves splitting the project into definable, observable and recognizable tasks / activities and then defining the interdependencies between...

Interorganizational business process standards (IBPS) are IT-enabled process specifications that standardize, streamline, and improve business processes related to interorganizational relationships. There has been much interest in IBPS as organizations from different industries implement these...

In this paper, I provide some observations on how the academic field of Operations Management has changed over the past 40 years. For this purpose, I have identified and classified the Operations Management papers published in Management Science in 1976 and in 2016. Based on this review I...

A new generation of healthcare operations management (HOM) scholars is studying timely healthcare topics (e.g., organization design, design of delivery, and organ transplantation) using contemporary methodological tools (e.g., econometrics, information economics, and queuing games). A...