Each regular paper published in OMR must make a clear contribution to the science and practice of operations management and include discussion of the potential of the research for advancing OM theory as well as its application. In contrast, the domain of the journal will NOT include the following:

• teaching topics or cases,
• engineering/technical issues,
• software applications,
• literature reviews,
• applications of operations theory to practice but without generalizable insights,
• practice-based lessons for operations but with no theoretical insights,
• extensions of operations theory with no practical application, or
• quantitative models without application to advance both operations management theory and practice.