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pom-topic-selection
Use when deciding whether an operations-management project fits Production and Operations Management (POM), which POM Department to route it to, or whether to target M&SOM, Management Science, JOM, or another venue. Sets the question and venue; it does not build the model (pom-theory-development).
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# Topic Selection & Department Fit (pom-topic-selection)
## When to trigger
- The venue is still movable and you want to know if the paper is POM-shaped
- You have an OM result but are unsure which Department Editor should receive it
- You are choosing between POM and M&SOM / Management Science / JOM / a methods journal
## The POM fit test
POM is the flagship of the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS), published by SAGE, covering the **full breadth of operations management**: production, service, supply chain, healthcare, retail, sustainability, platforms, and the interfaces with finance, marketing, accounting, and information systems. Two questions gate fit:
1. **Is there a real operations decision?** Name who decides what, under which constraints (capacity, inventory, lead time, contracts, staffing, sourcing). A pure OR technique with no OM decision context is off-fit.
2. **Does it pass the practice-relevance gate?** POM weights *significant interest to practicing operations managers* alongside rigor. An elegant model with no managerial takeaway, or a domain application with no generalizable OM insight, fails.