Call for Papers-Special Issue of Manufacturing & Service Operations Management: Interface of Finance, Operations, and Risk Management

Abstract

Description The goal of this special issue is to disseminate novel, insightful, and relevant research that unifies concepts from finance, operations, and risk management. All submissions must articulate the operational component of the research and must have a clear finance or risk management connection (but not necessarily both). Potential research topics include (and certainly are not limited to): • Supply chain finance • Interactions between financial claimholders and operational claimholders of a firm • Moral hazard and asymmetric information problems that arise when financial and operational claimholders interact • Novel channels of financing operational decisions • Propagation of financial information in supply chains • The effects of operational decisions of firms (financial and nonfinancial) on financial markets and financial markets’ efficiency • The use of financial markets to inform operational decisions • Novel financial and operational risks and their management • Meaningful applications of data analytics to operations-finance and operations–risk-management interfaces • Insurance and supply chain risks • Risk issues and hedging in commodity procurement • Revenue management: Risk and financial implications of dynamic capacity planning and pricing strategies • Special finance and operations interface topics in industries such as financial services, energy, commodity trading, shipping, and logistics • Operational and financial approaches in managing disruption and catastrophic risks in global supply chains. Groundbreaking and boundary expanding ideas are particularly welcomed. Both theoretical and empirical analyses are encouraged. Submitted papers should feature original research contributions, display the rigor emphasized in the editorial statement of M&SOM, 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.