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msom-theory-development
Use when building the analytical model or operational mechanism at the core of a Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (M&SOM) manuscript — formulating the decision, objective, and uncertainty; deriving structural results; or specifying the operational mechanism behind an empirical hypothesis. Adapts theory work to M&SOM's dominant analytical/stochastic-modeling tradition.
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# Model & Mechanism Development (msom-theory-development)
## When to trigger
- You have a topic but no formal model or sharp operational mechanism yet
- Your "model" is a regression with no operational decision inside it
- A reviewer asks "what is the structural result?" or "what drives the effect operationally?"
- You need to decide objective, decision variables, state, and source of uncertainty
## For analytical papers (the dominant M&SOM tradition)
M&SOM's historically dominant methodology is **analytical/stochastic operations modeling**. A strong model makes the **operational decision explicit** and yields **structural insight**, not just a numerical answer:
- **Decision variables**: what the operator chooses (order quantity, price, capacity, staffing, routing, contract terms).