Scientific programme

Organizing Committee
The conference organisation will be coordinated by the Operations Management researchers of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Palermo. The University of Palermo (UNIPA) is a consolidated cultural, scientific and teaching presence in central-western Sicily. It consists of 12 Faculties and 21 Departments which cover the most important domains of contemporary scientific and technological knowledge. About 130 courses (bachelor and master courses) are offered yearly together with 90 PhD courses which aim to train specific professional figures, often in cooperation with external institutions and companies . This globally means a community of more than 50,000 students.
The Organizing Committee of the 21st EurOMA Conference consists of:

• Giovanni Perrone, University of Palermo (Conference Chair).
• Manfredi Bruccoleri, University of Palermo (Conference Vice-Chair).
• Giuseppe Aiello, University of Palermo
• Mario Enea, University of Palermo
• Umberto La Commare, University of Palermo
• Giovanna Lo Nigro, University of Palermo
• Erica Mazzola, University of Palermo
• Paolo Roma, University of Palermo
• Alessandro Ancarani, University of Catania 

Scientific Committee

Doctoral Seminar

Location and dates
Complesso Polididattico, Viale delle Scienze, Ed. 19, Palermo
20-21 June 2014.

Faculty
Professor Pär Åhlström, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden
Professor Harry Boer, Aalborg University, Denmark
Professor Raffaella Cagliano, Politechnico di Milano, Italy
Professor Cipriano Forza, University of Padova, Italy
Professor Brian Fynes, University College Dublin, Ireland
Dr. Erica Mazzola, University of Palermo, Italy
Professor Zoe Radnor, Loughborough University, UK
Dr. Sinead Roden, Cass Business School, UK
Professor Rui Sousa, Catholic University of Portugal (Porto)
Dr. Taco van der Vaart, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

Contact
Programme: Professor Pär Åhlström, Department of Management and Organization, Stockholm School of Economics email: par.ahlstrom@hhs.se

Young Scholars Workshop

Targeted at young academics in general and alumni of the EurOMA Doctoral Seminar in particular, the EurOMA Young Scholars Workshop is conceived as a way to support the career development of young scholars in the field of operations management (OM) by teaching and sharing with them major skills needed in an academic career. Important skills are related to the following subjects:

• Supervising MSc and PhD students.
• Teaching OM to MSc and MBA students.
• Designing and developing research projects in Operations Management – From concept to publication.
• Developing your career – managing your way through academia.
• Developing theoretically rigorous and managerially relevant OM research.

Each year one of the above subjects is developed on a rolling base. 2014 is the year of the “Developing theoretically rigorous and managerially relevant OM research”. At the same time, the initiative is aimed at developing the community of young OM scholars, keeping the network alive and providing opportunities to meet and discuss relevant topics.

Theme

The theme and program of the 2014 workshop is “Operations management – research and practice”.

Operations management as a scientific discipline has always struggled with the practical relevance and impact of its research. At the same time, there is no doubt that OM concepts, systems and practices have huge impact on the performance of production companies, service providers and public organizations. However, how good are these concepts, systems and practices and/or their implementation actually? To what extent is the practical impact of OM a reflection of robust theory development or is there still a lot of scope for improvement? How useful and usable are the results of single or multiple cases studies and collaborative research projects beyond the boundaries of the firm(s) involved, and what can be done to increase their generalizability? How useful and usable are the results of survey-based quantitative studies?

Addressing these and similar questions, the workshop features presentations from OM scholars and practitioners who have been involved in OM research and will share their experience, views and ideas on questions and topics such as: 

• How to increase the usefulness and usability of OM research?
• Designing, conducting and publishing collaborative research.
• Taking theory to practice – taking practice to research.

Of course there will be ample opportunities for networking, one of the key overall objectives of the Young Scholars Workshops.

 Instructor's bios

• Currently a Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Strategy at Warwick University, Janet Godsell joined the faculty of Cranfield University in 2001, following the completion of her Executive MBA there. She also completed her PhD at Cranfield, researching the development of a customer responsive supply chain. Prior to her return to academia, worked at ICI/Zeneca Pharmaceuticals, after which she held senior management positions in Supply Chain and Operations Management at Dyson, responsible for operational and process improvements within R&D, customer logistics, purchasing and manufacturing.

• Paul Coughlan is Professor of Operations Management and Director of Research at the School of Business, Trinity College Dublin. Following an early career in engineering management he became a university lecturer and then a full-time doctoral student at the Business School of the University of Western Ontario (now the Ivey School). On graduation, he joined the faculty of the London Business School. From LBS he moved to join Trinity’s School of Business and has developed his research and teaching in operations management and new product development. His research in product development and continuous improvement has encompassed an innovative action research dimension involving companies engaged in action learning. This work has led to continuing methodology development and to specialized doctoral training in action research and learning through the EIASM doctoral network.

• Domien Draaijer did a PhD in Operations Management and stayed at university for a while before he joined  NXP Semiconductors, Nijmegen, The Netherlands (formerly Philips Semiconductors), where he is a member of the management team of waferfab ICN8, and responsible for  Quality & Business Partnership.

Contact

Professor Harry Boer, Center for Industrial Production, Aalborg University.
E-mail: hboer@business.aau.dk

7th EurOMA Workshop on Journal Publishing in Operations Management

Overview

The Workshop on Journal Publishing in Operations Management is specially indicated for faculty in the field of Operations Management (OM), who wish to increase the quality of their publications in recognised international academic journals in the field.

The Publishing Workshop process has three specific steps:

• Writing
  The Publishing Workshop process starts with an EurOMA conference abstract which has been accepted for the main conference programme and also for the Publishing Workshop. Following acceptance, each participant will develop the abstract into a conference paper. This paper forms the basis for participation in the Publishing Workshop. In the workshop, each paper will be allocated to a reviewer or journal editorial board member as Discussant, who will comment on the content and clarity of presentation of the ideas.
• Overview of the submission and review process
  The workshop will start with a session with reviewers and members of the editorial boards, where participants will be briefed on the editorial policy, publication process and strategies for submission.
• Small Group Discussions
  Discussion of each paper will follow, in small group sessions. These sessions will enable participants to obtain feedback on their papers from the reviewers and editorial board members, as well as from other Workshop participants in the same track. The suggestions for further development will allow authors to identify the key steps to bring the paper up to publication standards. There is, of course, no certainty of subsequent publication as a result of the participation in the Workshop since the journals’ blind review is the only process that leads to the acceptance of a paper for publication.

Publishing Workshop Organising Committee 

Cipriano Forza
Università di Padova, Vicenza, Italy

Cristina Gimenez
ESADE Business School, Barcelona, Spain

Juliana Hsuan
Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, Denmark

Marie Koulikoff-Souviron
SKEMA Business School, Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France

Christopher Voss
London Business School, London, UK

Contacts

Juliana Hsuan
Department of Operations Management, Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, Denmark
email: jh.om@cbs.dk

Cristina Gimenez
ESADE Business School, Barcelona, Spain
email: cristina.gimenez@esade.edu

Best Paper Awards

All papers submitted for an award should meet the criteria of superior scientific methodological quality and superior writing style.

The Chris Voss Best Paper Award
The Chris Voss Best Paper Award, established in 2002, is granted to the best paper presented at the conference. Since 2004, the award is supported by Emerald, publisher of the International Journal of Operations & Production Management. 
Papers will be judged on their contribution towards the advancement of theory and practice of Operations Management. The winner of the best conference paper will receive a money prize and a framed certificate; up to two runners-up will receive framed certificates. All prizes will be announced and handed over during the closing session of the conference, during the Awards Presentation.

The Harry Boer Best Student Paper Award
The Harry Boer Best Student Paper Award, established in 2009, is granted to the best paper presented at the conference authored by a PhD student. The award is supported by Emerald, publisher of the International Journal of Operations & Production Management. 
Papers will be judged on their contribution towards the advancement of theory and practice of Operations Management. The winner of the best student paper will receive a money prize and a framed certificate; up to two runners-up will receive framed certificates. All prizes will be announced and handed over during the closing session of the conference, during the Awards Presentation. In addition, all finalists will be awarded a complimentary conference registration voucher for the following year.

Special Sessions and Workshops

We are happy to announce that the following special sessions and workshop will nicely enrich the EurOMA 2014 scientific program. Their schedule will be updated soon.

Click on the titles below to see details.

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Keynote Speakers

Robert Handfield, PhD

Rob Handfield is the Bank of America University Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain Management at North Carolina State University, and Director of the Supply Chain Resource Cooperative (http://scm.ncsu.edu).  He also serves as Faculty Lead for the Manufacturing Analytics group within the International Institute of Analytics, and is on the Faculty for Operations Research Curriculum at NC State University.

Handfield is the Consulting Editor of the Journal of Operations Management, and is the author of several books on supply chain management, the most recent being Biopharmaceutical Supply Chains, Supply Market Intelligence, Supply Chain Re-Design and Introduction to Supply Chain Management (Prentice Hall, 1999, 25,000 copies sold, and translated into Chinese, Japanese, and Korean). He recently led a global study on Global Logistics Trends and Strategies for BVL International in 2013, as well as a report entitled Future Buy: The Future of Procurement published by KPMG.

Handfield received the Emerald Citation of Excellence award in 2011 and in 2013; he is regularly quoted in blogs and global news media such as the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, Spend Matters, Microsoft Live, Ariba Live, Inc., CIO, CFO, the Supply Chain Management Review, and other media.

Handfield has consulted with over 25 Fortune 500 companies, including Biogen Idec, Caterpillar, John Deere, GlaxoSmithKline, Boston Scientific, Delphi, Chevron, British Petroleum, Chevron Phillips, Bank of America, Sensata, KPMG, Lyondell Chemical, Conoco Phillips, Federal Express, SAP, and others.  He has published more than 100 articles in top management journals including California Management Review, Sloan Management Review, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Journal of Operations Management, and Decision Sciences.

Massimo Vian – Luxottica - Chief Operations Officer

Massimo Vian (http://www.luxottica.com/en/meet-massimo-vian) is Chief Operations Officer of Luxottica.
With net sales of more than Euro 7.3 billion in 2013, over 70,000 employees and a strong global presence, Luxottica is a leader in the design, manufacture, distribution and sales of premium, luxury and sports eyewear.
Massimo joined Luxottica in 2005 as Head of Engineering and Industrial Engineering.
Since January 2007 he moved to China in the role of Asia Operations Director.
In May 2010 he came back to Italy in the role of Chief Operations Officer with direct responsibility of R&D and Engineering, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, and Logistics of the Group.
Before joining Luxottica, Massimo was in charge of Industrial Engineering in Key Safety Systems. He worked in England for EFESO consulting and NACCO Materials Handling.
Massimo holds a Management Engineering degree from the University of Padova.

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Instructions for Paper Presentation at EurOMA2014

Thank-you for submitting your paper for presentation at the upcoming EurOMA 2014 Conference in Palermo. We have been working hard over the past few months to bring together the conference programme and appreciate your contribution to it.
Below you will find some useful information to ensure that presenting at EurOMA 2014 is an enjoyable and beneficial experience for all.

The Conference Venue
The EurOMA 2014 Conference will take place in the building Complesso Didattico,
Università degli Studi di Palermo (UniPa), Palermo, Viale delle Scienze Ed. 19.
The Conference Venue map is available on the conference website.

Audio Visual Equipment
Each room in the building Complesso Didattico contains the following equipment:
- Screen
- Dual projection
- PC
- Monitor
- Wi-Fi

Please bring your presentation on a USB pen. Your presentation should be 16:9 ratio format. Software installed on the PC is for standard office set up (Office 2003). It will not be possible for you to use your own laptop.

You are required to copy your presentation from your USB pen to the computer in the classroom. In doing this you will be assisted by our personnel.

Time Keeping
Please ensure that you are punctual for your presentation time slot. The conference programme is extensive, featuring 402 papers in 134 parallel sessions. So, keeping to schedule is essential.

Presenters should meet with their Session Chair in the scheduled room 10 minutes before the start of the session to upload their presentation. There will be technicians and student volunteers on site at all times to assist with any technical difficulties or to help as necessary. If you anticipate needing assistance of this kind, please contact a member of the EurOMA team at the Registration Desk in advance. The Registration Desk is located at the same floor of parallel sessions’ rooms in the building Complesso Didattico.

Presentation slots are 30 minutes per paper (including changing time of presenters). The general rule is to use 20 minutes for each presentation and 10 minutes for questions and discussion. We have instructed Session Chairs to be strict with time keeping, ensuring the timely running of the sessions and the Conference.

Time Keeping Cards
Each session chair has a set of time keeping cards, which they will use to communicate with presenters to keep the sessions on time.

• A yellow card indicates that you have 5 minutes of presenting time left;
• The first red card indicates it’s time to move on to questions;
• A second red card indicates that the presentation time is finished.

The Conference Programme and General Information
Please check the programme on the EurOMA2014 website to make sure that you know where and when you are scheduled to present.

A general information email for all delegates will be issued one week prior to the conference so keep a look out for it. It will contain practical travel information and tips to help you to make the most out of your visit to Palermo. If you have any queries please contact registration@euroma2014italy.org

We look forward to welcoming you to Palermo. Have a good trip!

Giovanni Perrone & Manfredi Bruccoleri
EurOMA 2014 Conference Chair and Vice Chair

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