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jom-methods

Use when choosing and defending the research design for a Journal of Operations Management (JOM) empirical study — matching survey, archival/secondary, field, case, experimental, or intervention-based research to the operations question, anticipating the Empirical Research Methods Department's method check, and keeping the design observation-grounded rather than analytical.

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# Research Design for Empirical OM (jom-methods)

## When to trigger

- You must pick a design that can actually test your operations hypotheses
- A reviewer questions whether the method fits the operations phenomenon or the level of analysis
- You are weighing a behavioral lab experiment vs. archival panel vs. survey vs. field/intervention
- You anticipate the **Empirical Research Methods Department** method check on incoming submissions

## JOM's empirical-only design space

JOM publishes empirical OM research and **does not** publish purely analytical models or optimization techniques. Every design must rest on **observation**. The native JOM design families are:

| Operations question / claim                                  | Design                                                        |