OM Forum—Making OM Research More Relevant: “Why?” and “How?”

Tang, Christopher S.

doi:10.1287/msom.2015.0553

Cited by 37 publications

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“….most OM research articles published in MS, M&SOM, POM, and even Interfaces tend to be irrelevant. (Tang 2016) Pick another field. One with big, important problems.…”

Section: How Relevant Is Operations Management?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustainable Innovation: Pushing the Boundaries of Traditional Operations Management

Wassenhove

2019

Production and Operations Management

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The UN Sustainable Development Goals are not optional. They are about survival. Reaching them requires focus and strong innovation. Operations Management is about designing innovative business models to allocate scarce resources. It therefore has the toolkit to help move the sustainability agenda, provided it strongly opts for studying relevant and pressing problems and proves its potential impact. This study argues that this requires innovation as well as a paradigm shift in how we look at contributions. The good news is that a growing number of OM academics select to work on important facets of sustainability. The bad news is that we stepped into this field relatively late so the impact of that work is still modest. We need to push the boundaries of our discipline to develop new context‐dependent knowledge on pressing problems, provide evidence of the validity of our findings, and translate them into practical and easy‐to‐use decision tools. This study uses closed‐loop supply chains and humanitarian operations to illustrate and support this thesis. OM needs innovation to substantially contribute to the sustainable development agenda and thereby safeguard its own sustainability as a discipline.

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“….most OM research articles published in MS, M&SOM, POM, and even Interfaces tend to be irrelevant. (Tang 2016) Pick another field. One with big, important problems.…”

Section: How Relevant Is Operations Management?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustainable Innovation: Pushing the Boundaries of Traditional Operations Management

Wassenhove

2019

Production and Operations Management

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“…Taylor and Taylor (2009) and more recently Moxham and Kauppi (2014) and Halldórsson, Hsuan, and Kotzab (2015) have endorsed researchers to use alternative theories and methods to explore new dimensions of the impact of SCM/OM. Applying, hence, organisational theories could enhance our understanding of HOM and make research more relevant (Tang 2016). *Corresponding author.…”

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Bridging humanitarian operations management and organisational theory

Gunasekaran

Dubey

Wamba

et al. 2018

International Journal of Production Research

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“…The operations management (OM) community is widely regarded as a problem‐solving discipline, seeking to create knowledge by interacting with the real world (McCutcheon and Meredith, 1993; Lewis, 1998). OM scholars have consistently echoed this sentiment and urged researchers to develop valid and relevant knowledge that can directly or indirectly support managers' problem‐solving efforts (Tang, 2015; Boyer and Swink, 2008). Van Mieghem (2013) calls for OM research to increase its relevancy dimensions and urges scholars to move away from the quintessential “ivory tower” syndrome.…”

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Conducting and publishing design science research

Aken¹,

Chandrasekaran

Halman

2016

J of Ops Management

231

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a b s t r a c tThe new Design Science department at the Journal of Operations Management invites submissions using a design science research strategy for operations management (OM) issues. The objective of this strategy is to develop knowledge that can be used in a direct and specific way to design and implement actions, processes or systems aimed at achieving desired outcomes. This knowledge is developed by engaging with real-life OM problems or opportunities. Manuscripts submitted to this department will be evaluated on pragmatic validity and practical relevance. Because design science research (DSR) differs in some important aspects from other OM research strategies, this essay examines in some depth its challenges and possible solutions.

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OM Forum—Making OM Research More Relevant: “Why?” and “How?”

Cited by 37 publications

References 25 publications

Sustainable Innovation: Pushing the Boundaries of Traditional Operations Management

Sustainable Innovation: Pushing the Boundaries of Traditional Operations Management

Bridging humanitarian operations management and organisational theory

Conducting and publishing design science research

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