Journal of Production Research & Management

• Production and Operations Management: Productivity improvement, quality teams, service operations and the service factory, customer retention, electronic data interchange, survey-based operations research.
• Production Planning, Optimization, and Simulation: Manufacturing capacity planning, simulation-optimization, genetic algorithms, artificial neural networks, planning in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
• Production Systems: Manufacturing and agri-food production systems, consumption and demand analysis, environmental impacts of production, sustainable resource use.
• Supply Chain Management: Global supply chains, customer order management, enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, analytical supply chain models, decision support systems.
• Manufacturing and Operations Strategy: Competitiveness, empirical studies of manufacturing strategy, International Manufacturing Strategy Survey (IMSS) data analysis.
• Policy Formulation and Evaluation: System dynamics modeling, quantitative policy models, energy policy and energy analysis for production sectors, integrated national planning models such as Threshold 21.
• Business Law and Technology Management: Open innovation, business model innovation, technology partnerships, commercialization of energy storage technologies.
• Marketing Management: Marketing planning, implementation, and control, marketing mix, relationship marketing, services marketing, customer interaction, strategic alliances, network organizations.
• Human Resource Management: Future of human resource management, globalization, workforce diversity, the knowledge economy, technology in HRM, training, management development, human resource development.
• Business Strategy and Policy: Small enterprises, entrepreneurship, competitive advantage, managerialism, strategic alignment, organizational design.

The journal publishes original research articles, review articles, case studies, and short communications. Submissions must address production, operations, or the management functions that support them. Animal science, device-level electrical engineering, and general economics with no operations or management link are out of scope. The journal serves operations and supply chain researchers, production managers, industrial engineers, business strategists, and policymakers.