Call for Papers
Special issue of Production and Operations Management on
Measuring the impact of sustainable operations
Guest Editors: Charles J. Corbett, Paul R. Kleindorfer and Luk N. Van
Wassenhove
Description: The OM community has embraced "sustainability" as a key
area of activity in recent years, focusing so far mostly on the
environmental dimension of sustainability. The calls for business to
focus increased resources on sustainable operations have intensified and
broadened in the last few years, now including major research efforts in
closed-loop supply chains, humanitarian logistics, carbon footprinting
of supply chains, product and process innovations directed towards
improving energy efficiency, sustainable transport, and many other areas
that have strong intersections with the traditional purview of OM.
Notwithstanding some progress in these areas, most work published in OM
journals has not explicitly measured the impacts of the alternatives
being studied.
The objective of this special issue is to bridge the gap between
existing research on sustainable operations, including links to
traditional measures of profit and risk, and approaches that exist for
measuring environmental and social impacts from other disciplines.
Examples of topics that would fit the objectives of this special issue
include:
* rigorous life-cycle assessments performed in a context that is of
direct relevance to researchers in the OM community
* research on the social impact of OM-related decisions in which this
impact is measured in a rigorous and quantitative manner
* case studies or sectoral benchmarking studies on the measurement of
supply chain carbon or energy footprints and their relationship to
associated mitigation strategies
* survey research and analysis of sectoral or regional studies concerned
with management strategies and priorities in support of sustainable
operations
Analytical models, empirical studies and case studies are all welcomed,
as long as they increase our insights on quantitative measurement of
social and environmental impacts of operations management decision-making.
All papers submitted to the special issue should meet the usual POMS
guidelines of rigor and relevance and should follow the POMS formatting
and language conventions (see (http://www.poms.org/Journal.html).
However, specific to this special issue is the requirement that the
research have additional boundary-spanning attributes, allowing better
quantification of environmental and/or social impact of POM solutions.
The objective of the special issue is to help OM researchers ground
their models better in measuring the impacts of strategies and
initiatives directed toward improving the sustainability of operations.
Review process: Submitted articles will be reviewed by the guest editors
and referees. Decisions regarding acceptance of articles will be made
within 2 review cycles, where each review cycle will be within 4 months.
All submissions should include at least 3 suggestions for reviewers;
authors using measurement methods that are novel to the OM community
should suggest several reviewers from those disciplines in addition to
reviewers from within the OM field.
Deadline for submission: All submissions should be submitted
electronically, by June 1, 2009 to Charles Corbett at
(
charles.corbett@anderson.ucla.edu).
Charles J. Corbett
Professor of Operations Management and Environmental Management
Joseph Jacobs Term Chair in Entrepreneurial Studies
UCLA Anderson School of Management
Email:
charles.corbett@anderson.ucla.edu
Paul R. Kleindorfer
Distinguished Research Professor
Technology and Operations Management
INSEAD
Email:
paul.kleindorfer@insead.edu
Luk N. Van Wassenhove
Academic Director INSEAD Social Innovation Center
The Henry Ford Chaired Professor of Manufacturing
And Professor of Technology and Operations Management
INSEAD
Email:
luk.van-wassenhove@insead.edu
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Charles J. Corbett
Professor of Operations Management and Environmental Management
Joseph Jacobs Term Chair in Entrepreneurial Studies
UCLA Anderson School of Management
110 Westwood Plaza, Box 951481, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1481
tel: +1 (310) 825-1651, fax: +1 (310) 206-3337
charles.corbett@anderson.ucla.edu
http://personal.anderson.ucla.edu/charles.corbett/