jom-workflow

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# Journal of Operations Management Workflow (jom-workflow)

## Overview

This is the router. It does not replace any specialized skill; it tells you **which jom-* skill to use right now** for your JOM manuscript.

Default assumption: unless the user says otherwise, treat the target as **JOM** — the flagship outlet for *original, empirical* operations and supply chain management research, published by **Wiley on behalf of the Association for Supply Chain Management (ASCM, formerly APICS)**, established 1980, eight issues a year, on the FT50 list. JOM's defining bar is that **operations must be at the heart of the research question, not just in the context**, and the work must be empirical — "it is the observation that renders the research empirical." JOM explicitly does **not** publish purely analytical models or optimization techniques ("these belong in operations research, industrial engineering, or analytical OM journals"). Reviewers and Department Editors ask "is the operations phenomenon real and observed?" as insistently as "is the theory advanced?"

> Editorial structure: Co-Editors-in-Chief Elliot Bendoly (Ohio State) and Rogelio Oliva (Texas A&M); the journal routes every submission to one of **12 Departments**, each with its own Department Editors. Verify the current masthead and roster before relying on names. Fees, the APC, abstract limit, and exact length rules change — confirm on the ASCM/JOM and Wiley pages (some are 待核实 in `resources/official-source-map.md`).

## When to trigger

- "What should I do next?" with a half-built empirical OM manuscript
- You have operational data and a result but no clear OM-theoretic story