The Global Operations track focuses on managerial perspectives on global operations as well as global perspectives on operations management, e.g. comparative studies on operations in different parts of the world. Key areas of interest within this track include (but are not limited to):
- Design and management of global operations
- Digitalization and global operations
- Global operations strategy
- Global perspectives on operations management – comparing regions
- Interfaces with marketing, finance, R&D, product development, engineering, supply chains
- Managing multi-plant networks
- Managing surveys of global operations
- National culture and global operations
- Rightshoring – balancing offshoring and backshoring
- Rightsourcing – balancing outsourcing and insourcing
- Servitization and global operations
- Sustainability and global operations
Important Dates:
05/30/2018 Full Paper Submissions Deadline
06/15/2018 Papers Abstracts Submission Deadline
06/15/2018 Panels Proposals Deadline
07/01/2018 Authors Notified of Paper Acceptance Decision
09/01/2018 Full Paper Revisions Resubmission
09/15/2018 Conference Registration Deadline
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Sarah Wu Track Chair, Global Operations 2018 Annual Meeting of the Decision Sciences Institute jiwu@fordham.edu |