Call for Papers—Special Issue of Management Science: Interfaces of Operations and Finance

Abstract

Recently, a growing number of Operations Management researchers have started to investigate the interface between the two fields leveraging the institutional richness of Operations Management research, and proposing ways to operationally hedge operational and competitive exposures not effectively handled through typical financial hedging contracts. It is now timely to compile state-of-theart research at the interface of Finance and Operations Management in a special issue of Management Science. Such research will capitalize on the richness of the two fields while exploiting gaps left in their interfaces, with clear objectives: • contributing to the theory of at least one of the fields, while rigorously representing knowledge of the other. • creating managerial insights, practical knowledge and/or tools that general managers and risk management practitioners can use in their decisions and applications. The goal of this call for papers is to include research that shows conditions under which a tighter integration of both functions within and across enterprises leads to higher value creation, while at the same time advances the knowledge and creates tools for enterprise risk management. We solicit contributions spanning a diverse set of topics and using rigorous methodological approaches as appropriate to the question under study (theoretical modeling, conceptual frameworks, empirical, survey research, experimental etc.). Topics we are interested in, but not limited to: • Joint financing and capacity-investment choices • Integrated financial and operational hedging • Risk issues in commodity procurement • Real-options valuation and hedging in operations management • Global risk-management in manufacturing • Supply-chain contracting • Cross-functional approaches to managing large project risks • Risk measures, performance evaluation and incentives • Managing disruption and catastrophic risks in global supply chains: Building the Resilient Enterprise • Insurance and supply chain risks • Managing global outsourcing risks • Cross-functional approaches to managing new product and technology development risks • Managing operational risks in the service sector (banking, entertainment, travel, rentals etc.) • Operationalizing supply-chain risk management • Risk aversion in supply-chain management • Revenue management: financial implications of capacity-planning and dynamic pricing strategies • Risk considerations in revenue management • Special topics in sectors such as financial services and energy and commodity trading Submitted papers should feature original research contributions, display the rigor emphasized in the editorial statement of Management Science, clearly articulate their managerial relevance, and obey the journal’s author guidelines. The review process will be handled by the guest editors and an ad-hoc set of associate editors representing the fields of Operations and Supply Chain Management, Operations Research, Financial Economics and Applied Finance, and Financial Engineering. Submissions are due by July 31, 2007. Publication of the special issue is expected in early 2009. Paper provisions and submission guidelines are available at http://mansci.pubs.informs.org/.