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Call
for Papers for a Special Issue of
ANNALS
of OPERATIONS RESEARCH (AOR)
“Management Innovation: Methods
and Tools in Service Industries”
Guest editor: Desheng
Dash Wu and David L. Olson
The recent spur of the applications of various
quantitative techniques in the management science demands new thinking in
the service industries. The use of
innovative management methods and tools has been growing at an unprecedented rate, and will continue to
expand in the near future.
Either ground breaking methodologies or novel tools are
needed to reshape the landscape of the current service industries. To face
this new challenge, this special
issue strives to provide a platform for exchanging new ideas and bring
together the state-of-the-art research from different perspectives.
Subject Coverage
We solicit papers that address the issues raised
above with an emphasis on the use of models and tools from the area of
performance analysis, operations management, business data mining and risk
management, but we also welcome innovative modeling approaches from other
areas.
Two conferences (The 1st International
Conference on Management Innovation (ICMI 2007) and the 1st International Conference on
Technology Innovation, Risk Management and Supply Chain Management are to
be organized on June 4-6 and Oct 19-21, 2007 in China. Submission
to the Special Issue is however
not restricted to conference participants.
Notes for Authors
Submitted papers should
not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for
publication elsewhere. All papers are refereed through the AOR peer review
process. A guide for authors, sample copies and other relevant information
for submitting papers are available on the journal page. As is customary
for special issues, authors of submitted papers will play a key role in the
review process.
Important Dates
Deadline for submission
of manuscripts: December 1, 2007
Approximate date for
final submission of accepted manuscripts: May, 2009
Manuscripts may be submitted by an e-mail to the
guest editor:
Desheng Dash Wu
Affiliated Professor, RiskLab, University of Toronto；
Director of RiskChina Research Center,
University of Toronto, Canada
(416)
880-5219
FAX (416) 978-41 07
E-mail: dash@risklabchina.ca, dash@risklab.ca
(use only one account please)
and/or
David L. Olson
Department
of Management, University of Nebraska
Lincoln, NE
68588-0491
(402) 472-4521
FAX (402) 472-5855
E-mail: dolson3@unl.edu
Both MS Word file and pdf file are accepted. If accepted, you may need to
provide the latex source code and all figure files. You should receive an
acknowledgement.
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