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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION ECONOMICS
Special Issue on Models for Compassionate Operations
Guest Editor: Joseph Sarkis, Professor of Operations and Environmental Management, Graduate
School of Management, Clark University, Worcester, MA 01610-1477, USA. Email:
jsarkis@clarku.edu
?Passion for Compassion? and ?Dare to Care? are the underlying themes of the Academy of
Management meeting in 2010 to be held in Montreal, Canada. As production and operations
economists we feel that issues such as financial strength and efficiencies are the overriding
concerns of organizations and we develop tools and models that help organizations manage these
dimensions. We need to expand beyond this mindset and think creatively on how we can aid the
broader communities in which we live. We decouple morality and ethics from many of our
modeling and research efforts. Sometimes this decoupling is necessary to make academic,
theoretical, and technological progress. But given the various financial, social, and health crises
occurring at all levels of society, and which are seemingly inexhaustible, using our tools and
expertise as an academic community to aid in managing, if not preventing, these crises requires
that we reengage ourselves and our work with ethical concerns and compassion issues.
The issue of compassion and caring is part of broader corporate social responsibility themes that
have started to permeate management and engineering disciplines. Focusing on operations and
production as tools for social change and management has not garnered as much emphasis as
other topics in production economics such as technological and inter-organizational focus and
developments. Some ?social caring? topics have been covered in previous issues of this journal,
such as sustainable supply chains topics. We seek to expand these concepts with the introduction
of models for compassionate operations.
Compassionate operations does not necessarily mean just being soft and emotional, but that we
can use existing and emergent knowledge related to production and operations to aid others, and
not necessarily for profitability. There are many topics that can be covered in this issue and we
will allow the creativity of our research community expand on these issues which include:
Humanitarian and Relief Logistics
Social learning (education) and enterprise networking models
Non-profit services planning and management
Poverty relief operations models
Models to aid in production and industry development in underrepresented regions
Models to aid public policy development for social programs
Investigations of resource efficiency of philanthropic and charitable organizations
Local and regional management of food and social services
The use and application of production and information innovations and technology for social crises
Health and safety management of communities
Triple bottom-line management of organizations
Risk, security, and resiliency management of communities
We welcome high quality modeling and study approaches for advancing production and
operations economics research in these areas. Analytical, Economic, Quantitative tools and
methodological developments are welcome. We will also welcome empirical and conceptual
review papers that provide a broader understanding of tools and models that currently exist and
are practiced. Thus, normative and descriptive approaches are welcome for submission to this
special issue. Production economics foundation and economic consequences should be an
important, but not exclusive, aspect of manuscripts.
Accepted papers are expected to be within the scope of the IJPE, authors are referred to the home
page
http://ees.elsevier.com/ijpe/default.asp. As part of the relevancy, it is important to relate
submitted manuscripts with other work previously published in the IJPE. Thus, authors are
strongly encouraged to reference previous works within IJPE for journal consistency and to ensure
relevancy.
All manuscripts will be double-blind reviewed by at least two reviewers. Papers will be evaluated
based on high scientific quality, taking into consideration rigour, scientific novelty and scientific
contribution.
Submissions:
Authors submit manuscripts using the Elsevier Editorial System (EES) at their URL:
http://ees.elsevier.com/ijpe/default.asp
Authors may have to register onto the system, if not already registered.
Submission Deadline: September 15, 2010.
Questions pertaining to this special issue may be sent to
jsarkis@clarku.edu