Journal of Operations Management

In a joint effort to help guide both authors and review teams, a shared policy statement, co-developed by several journals working in the OM space, has been put in place regarding the use of AI in developing research and review content. These policies are extensions of existing positions held by publishers (e.g., Wiley has posted a link to this statement among its own Author Guidelines, as well). The position is a working statement, and is expected to evolve as the landscape does, but worth reading for those embarking on new research efforts in the field of Operations Management: https://lnkd.in/gyN6Vfmg (Partial image credit: https://lnkd.in/eMJVK7DG )

Interview | Dr. Rajinder Bhandal moderates a discussion between Dr. Hui Zhao and Dr. Daniel J. Finkenstadt relating to the Journal of Operations Management research "Evaluating quality reward and other interventions to mitigate US drug shortages”, authored by Sergey Naumov, In Joon Noh, and Hui Zhao (https://lnkd.in/gJqSG6fr) https://lnkd.in/g2RTgHKX

Research Article | Examining the role of single versus dual decision-making approach for patient care: Evidence from cardiology patients Deepa Goradia, Aravind Chandrasekaran https://lnkd.in/gUs6ek77 Research in healthcare suggests that repeated interaction between a provider and a patient can support better decision-making, resulting in improved efficiencies. To date, these repeated interactions enabling continuity of care have not been studied in hospital inpatient settings. During a hospital stay, decisions related to patient treatment are usually made by two key decision-makers: the attending physician (AP) and the operating physician (OP). Under the single decision-making approach (S-DMA), the AP and OP are the same; in contrast, under the dual decision-making approach (D-DMA), the AP and OP are different. In recent years, there has been an increasing trend toward the use of D-DMA over S-DMA across U.S. hospitals owing to scheduling conflicts. Although research outside healthcare operations management has argued for benefits from both approaches, their impacts on a patient's hospital stay are unclear. In this study, we address this gap by investigating the effects of S-DMA and D-DMA on patient care outcomes in terms of patient length of stay (LOS), treatment cost, and mortality. Data for our study come from the state of Florida and involve 520,554 cardiology patients treated by 9483 APs and 18,398 OPs at 241 hospitals between 2014 and 2016. We account for both patient and physician selection issues when choosing a particular decision-making strategy. Our results suggest that, on average, using S-DMA is associated with reduced patient LOS and treatment cost but has no effect on mortality. We also find that S-DMA is more beneficial for patients with low comorbidity and low process uncertainty, whereas D-DMA is more beneficial for patients with high comorbidity and high process uncertainty. Our results are robust to alternative explanations. We demonstrate that a single decision-maker offers benefits in the context of healthcare delivery, but dual decision-makers may yield benefits when caring for patients with high comorbidity and high process complexity. We discuss the implications of these findings for appropriately deploying S-DMA and D-DMA in inpatient services. (Partial image credit: https://lnkd.in/gB7iPeun )

For those contemplating recommendations of Associated Editors and ERB reviewers for upcoming submissions to JOM, the newest version of the JOM Spotlight tool now also provides a view of any current AEs and/or ERB reviewers involved as authors in your filtered time and keyword searches. As always, the resource is available at our public home page: www.jom-hub.com (Thanks to Tyson Browning for the recommended addition, as we transition into the Research Exchange submission platform)

Interview | A discussion with Dr. Janet Godsell and Dr. Tyson Browning, moderated by Dr. Rajinder Bhandal, relating to approaches to engaging with practice for truly impactful research agendas.  https://lnkd.in/gfMjgpRj

The Journal of Operations Management is excited to announce the introduction of the JOM Beacon Paper Award, granted to the JOM paper published in the preceding five years that has attracted most interest by the media, researchers, and practitioners. The purpose of the ward is to motivate scholars to increase the visibility and impact of their work beyond scholarly circles. The award will be announced in the following year's JOM mini-conference and includes a $1,000 prize to be shared among the authors. For more information on the award and the selection criteria please visit https://lnkd.in/g5Rt86nE.

We are organizing the 2025 EurOMA Conference in Milano, the call for papers is out, we are looking forward to receiving your abstracts and seeing you next June! POLIMI School of Management Dipartimento di Ingegneria Gestionale - Politecnico di Milano

Research Article | Targeting online sales through last-mile delivery platform integration Kevin Park, Xiaodan Pan, Martin Dresner https://lnkd.in/gTyWaq8r We analyze channel integration between a last-mile delivery platform and a general merchandise retailer in two distinct stages: (1) platform delivery access (PDA), where the retailer continues to offer standard delivery through its own website but directs customers to the platform's website for new same-day delivery; and (2) integrated delivery access (IDA), where customers can continue to use same-day delivery service at the delivery platform website but can purchase products in a single order with both same-day and standard delivery options at the retailer's website. We perform a quasi-experiment using consumer spending data from retailer, target, and delivery platform, Shipt. We find that PDA provides positive impacts to the delivery platform through increased sales. IDA, on the other hand, increases the retailer's online channel sales but does not impact the delivery platform's sales. Moreover, we find that the positive effects of PDA on the delivery platform's sales are stronger in markets where online grocery penetration is lower, indicating that the effects were likely driven by increased purchases for groceries. Finally, the positive effect of IDA on the retailer's online channel sales is stronger in markets where the retailer has a greater loyal customer base and online grocery penetration is lower. (Partial image credit: https://lnkd.in/g4JrB93G)

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