Nobel laureates’ contributions to and impacts on operations management

Abstract

Operations management (OM) has evolved to its current status due to the contributions of researchers in many fields including economics, finance, behavioral sciences, operations research/management science, mathematics, statistics, and computer science. Many of these contributors are Nobel laureates—winners of the highest academic award. The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences is awarded to those with monumental works in economics. Yet, some winners have also made contributions to operations management, the field of this journal. Others have developed important concepts and techniques that have made an enormous impact on OM research. Here, we describe the OM contributions as well as the impactful concepts of these Laureates.

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“…Then, Sethi et al. (2022) describe the contributions of various Nobel laureates that propelled the advancement of OM research since World War II.…”

“…In two sequential papers, Singhal andSinghal (2022a, 2022b) explore the linkage between OM and civilizations and industrialization before and after the Industrial Revolution until 1945. Then, Sethi et al (2022) describe the contributions of various Nobel laureates that propelled the advancement of OM research since World War II.…”