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This guide helps researchers evaluate if their operations management (OM) paper is suitable for the Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (M&SOM) journal. It provides detailed criteria on scope, required operational insight, method rigor (analytical or empirical), and structural house style, ensuring the core contribution addresses practical operations problems rather than just technical methodology.

A comprehensive guide for authors submitting to top Operations Management journals, such as M&SOM. It teaches how to translate complex analytical or empirical results into explicit, actionable operational contributions. The focus is on making the managerial implication, the core operational decision, and the structured abstract components clearly defined, moving the emphasis away from methodological novelty.

A comprehensive guide for researchers writing about Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (M&SOM). It mandates that the method chosen must be dictated by the core operational decision. Provides detailed frameworks for both the analytical lane (e.g., stochastic optimization, queueing theory, game theory) and the empirical/causal lane (e.g., Difference-in-Differences, Instrumental Variables), ensuring the research delivers actionable operational insights.

A comprehensive guide detailing the submission and review process for the M&SOM journal. Learn about the author-driven departmental routing, the double-anonymous review structure, key decision criteria (operations-centrality, originality), and how to correctly interpret various decision letters (Major/Minor/Desk Reject) to maximize publication chances.

A comprehensive, step-by-step checklist designed for authors preparing manuscripts for submission to Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (M&SOM). It covers crucial elements including double-anonymous anonymization, strict formatting rules (32-page cap, structured abstract), proper departmental routing, and data/code disclosure requirements, ensuring readiness for the scholarOne portal submission.

A comprehensive guide for structuring and presenting complex analytical and empirical results for Operations Management journals (M&SOM). It emphasizes strict formatting rules, adhering to a hard page limit, and ensuring that all exhibits are self-contained and immediately convey the core insight (e.g., plotting policy structures, highlighting operational magnitudes, and using automated tools for generation).

A guide for developing rigorous analytical or stochastic models for Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (M&SOM). It emphasizes translating operational decisions, objectives, and uncertainties into explicit structural results, such as policy forms (e.g., order-up-to levels) and comparative statics, ensuring the core insight remains operational rather than merely descriptive.

This guide serves as a comprehensive router for developing an Operations Management manuscript intended for M&SOM. It outlines the entire academic writing lifecycle, from initial topic selection and theoretical development through data analysis, contribution framing, writing style refinement, and final submission/rebuttal. It ensures that the core operations decision remains central to the contribution.

A comprehensive guide for the late-stage polishing of academic manuscripts for submission to M&SOM. It focuses on restructuring the narrative to lead with the operational insight, developing a structured, jargon-free abstract, controlling mathematical notation, and adhering to strict INFORMS author-year citation styles and page limits.

A comprehensive guide for positioning Operations Research manuscripts within the Production and Operations Management (POM) academic landscape. It helps authors compare their work against canonical departmental literature, adjacent top-tier journals (e.g., M&SOM, OR), and rigorously define axes of novelty (setting, mechanism, method). Useful when determining the optimal venue or clarifying the paper's unique contribution.