Operations and Supply Chain Management (OSCM)

PDW: Interventionist Research:
Challenges and Opportunities
August 10, 2019
Aravind Chandrasekaran
Suzanne de Treville
Tyson Browning

PDW Slides and Oliva's Working Paper on Interventionist Research

Agenda
• Part 1:
• Introduction (Suzanne de Treville and Tyson Browning, co-EICs at JOM)
• Interventionist research strategy for OSCM (Aravind Chandrasekaran, JOM DE –
Interventionist Research)
• Importance of research questions and research strategy (Raghu Garud, co-editor –
Org Studies, AE – MS)
• Using interventionist research to avoid Type 3 error? (Arun Rai, EIC – MISQ)
• Conducting interventionist research – best practices in the field. (Jan Holmström –
JOM AE – Interventionist Research)
• Summary and introduction to Part 2 (Suzanne and Tyson)
• Break (5 min.)
• Part 2:
• Design requirements for interventionist research in OSCM (discussion with panelists)
• Open Q&A with the audience