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Use when turning analytical or empirical results into an explicit operations contribution for a Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (M&SOM) manuscript — stating the managerial implication, the new operational insight, and why an operations decision is central, including the structured-abstract framing M&SOM requires.

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# Contribution Framing (msom-contribution-framing)

## When to trigger

- Results exist but the "so what for operations" is implicit or thin
- A Department Editor says the contribution is incremental or the OM core is unclear
- You are writing the introduction's contribution paragraph or the structured abstract
- You must make the managerial implication explicit, not optional

## Make the operational insight explicit

M&SOM judges manuscripts on **importance, originality, clarity, validity, and relevance**, and gates on an **operations decision being central**. State plainly: *what operational decision does this paper change, and how?* For analytical work, the contribution is usually the **structure** of the optimal policy and the **comparative statics** a manager can act on (e.g., "stock-up-to a threshold that rises in lead-time variability"). For empirical work, it is a **credibly identified operational effect** and the policy it implies. Avoid framing the contribution as a methodological novelty alone — the operations insight must lead.

## Managerial relevance is a required, sectioned component
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