Why Empirical Research Is Good for Operations Management, and What Is Good Empirical Operations Management?

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Fisher, Marshall; Olivares, Marcelo; Staats, Bradley R.
• 署名单位: University of Pennsylvania; Universidad de Chile; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
• 刊物名称: M&SOM-MANUFACTURING & SERVICE OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1523-4614
• DOI: 10.1287/msom.2019.0812
• 发表日期: 2020
• 页码: 170-178
• 关键词: empirical research; Causal Inference; operations management

摘要

Empirical research in operations management has increased steadily over the last 20 years. In this paper, we discuss why this is good for our field and offer some comments on the qualities we admire in an empirical operations management paper.