College of Behavior in Operations Management

The College aims to create a community of researchers, educators and practitioners who deal with study of human behavior issues to make POM more effective. This effort will lead to a focus on the study of interfaces and interactions of POM with other disciplines primarily with Organizational Behavior, Human Resource Management and Occupational Psychology. These also include the overlap and intersection of various disciplines with respect to logistical and transformation processes for products and services, and the development, deployment and evaluation of human resource policies and practices that support these processes. Specifically, the College will focus on the interaction between individuals, work groups, technology and work place environments.

President: Pauline Found, Cardiff Business School, Lean Enterprise Research Centre (foundpa1@Cardiff.ac.uk)
Vice President: Abdul Aziz, Morgan State University, Dept of Business Administration (azizmsu@yahoo.com)
Secretary: Björn Claes, Cranfield School of Management(bjorn.claes@cranfield.ac.uk)
Treasurer: Rogelio Oliva, Mays Business School, Texas A&M University (roliva@tamu.edu)

Advisory Members:
Sushil Gupta, Florida International University, College of Business Administration (guptask@fiu.edu)
Elliot Bendoly, Emory University, Goizueta Business School (Elliot_Bendoly@bus.emory.edu)
Martin Starr, Rollins College, Crummer Graduate School of Business (mstarr@cfl.rr.com)
Peter Ward, Ohio State University, Fisher College of Business (ward.1@osu.edu)

1) Journal of Production and Operations Management

Behavioral Operations

Mission Statement
The department seeks papers that further our understanding of operations by explicitly accounting for empirically observed human tendencies and influences, such as decision biases, cognitive limitations, individual preferences, and social institutions. Behavioral issues naturally arise in any operational context where human judgment or management of human operations is critical. Behavioral influences can surface from a variety of sources including customers, workers, and managers. Possible contexts include (but are not limited to) manufacturing and service processes, supply chain management, procurement, revenue management, product development, and technology management.

The department is especially interested in papers that uncover human regularities that are unique to operations settings or that manifest themselves in novel ways in this new environment. Papers must be well written with a clear statement of their contribution to both theory and practice. We encourage a broad range of methodologies including laboratory experiments, field studies, systems dynamics, and analytical models of human behavior. The chosen methodology should be well motivated and executed with the highest rigor.

Departmental Editor
Professor Karen Donohue
The Carlson School
University of Minnesota
321 19th Ave S, 3-150 CSOM
Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Phone: (612) 625-6320
kdonohue@csom.umn.edu

Senior Editors
Jan C. Fransoo, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
Teck H. Ho, University of California, Berkeley
Joseph Thomas, Cornell University
Elena Katok, Penn State University
Gary Pisano, Harvard University
John Sterman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The POMS College of Human Behaviour in Operations Management will be organizing a mini conference around the main POMS conference in Vancouver, BC, this year. This event consists of a pre-conference dinner including a prominent industry speaker on Thursday May 6th (18.00 to 21.30) and a post conference mini conference on Monday May 10th (14.00 to 16.45) consisting of a selection of outstanding speakers originating from industry and academia followed by a panel discussion. The aim of this conference is to exchange ideas about the contemporary behavioural issues in operations and supply chain management and to listen and learn from the insights and experiences of executives of leading companies with respect to this specific issue.

Prior to and during the Monday session poster presentations will be shown to provide a platform for presenting research and connecting people with similar research interests.

The agenda of the mini-conference will be communicated shortly.

Click here to register.

We look forward to see you all in Vancouver!

POMS College of Behavior in Operations Management (CBOM) aims to create a community of researchers, educators and practitioners who deal with study of human behavior issues to make POM more effective.

On May 10th, immediately following the main conference, the college is hosting a mini-conference consisting of a selection of outstanding speakers originating from industry and academia followed by a panel discussion.

To make optimal use of the occasion and to provide a platform for presenting research and connecting people with similar research interests, the College wants to offer the opportunity for presenting poster presentations before speakers, during the break and after the forum discussion.

Those interested in making a poster presentation should prepare a one-page abstract (Times New Roman style, font 12, single spaced). Kindly underline the name of the person(s) who will make the poster presentation. Authors of the selected abstracts need to prepare a summary of their submissions on up to twelve A4 or 8”x10” papers (please use large font sizes). The conference participants will walk around and review the posted research. Poster presentations by doctoral candidates, early stage researchers and practitioners are highly encouraged.

Kindly e-mail the abstract to Björn Claes (bjorn.claes@canfield.ac.uk) or Pauline Found (foundpa1@Cardiff.ac.uk).

Deadline for the submission of abstracts: March 31st, 2010.

For further details about CBOM and the Conference visit: http://www.poms.org/colleges/chbom