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pom-theory-development
Use when building the model or mechanism for a Production and Operations Management (POM) manuscript — formalizing assumptions, deriving equilibria/propositions for analytical work, or developing OM hypotheses for empirical/behavioral work. Builds the argument; it does not run the analysis (pom-data-analysis) or frame the contribution (pom-contribution-framing).
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# Model & Theory Development (pom-theory-development)
## When to trigger
- You have an operations question but no formal model or sharp mechanism
- Your assumptions are mathematically convenient but operationally unmotivated
- A reviewer says "the model is not well grounded in practice" or "the mechanism is unclear"
- Empirical results are interpreted as bare correlations with no operations mechanism
## POM's dominant track: analytical modeling — done rigorously
POM is historically anchored in **analytical/mathematical modeling** (operations-research / management-science-style optimization, stochastic modeling, and game theory), so theory development most often means **building a model**, not deriving verbal hypotheses. Make every modeling choice defensible:
- **Decision primitive & objective.** Name the operational decision (capacity, inventory, pricing, scheduling, sourcing, routing, staffing) and the objective (cost, profit, fill rate, waiting time, welfare).