亲爱的同仁， 

 在过去的几年里，非营利性组织的运营问题得到越来越多的关注。在生产与运营（POM）的领域，获得更多关注的与这类运作相关的应用研究是是人道主义灾难管理和全球医疗保健，而研究目的不是想许多其他应用研究中设置的以盈利为目的。通过这个特刊，我们鼓励POM研究人员在这一新兴的研究领域中开发出严谨和相关的分析和实证研究。特刊要求的关于非营利性运营的主题包括但不限于：

·      定价

·      库存

·      采购和供应商选择

·      非营利性运营的物流

·      资金分配

·      监控接收者的捐赠问题

·      标杆接收者绩效的捐赠问题

·      不同接收组织之间的协调

·      不同捐赠者之间的协调

·      捐赠者-接收者关系

·      绩效评估

·      筹资机制设计

·      捐款管理（指定用途的捐赠、各种类型的特征、志愿劳动力）

 研究报告的提交截止日期将在亚特兰大举办的2014POM会议上宣布。

 关于特刊的其他信息和相关主题将在关于非营利性运营管理的讲座和专题研讨会上探讨（5月9日（星期五）下午1:30-3:00，M101房间），该研讨会在2014POMS会议期间，会议主席是J.乔治Shanthikumar。本次会议的开头将是关于全球健康的讲座（由Jayashankar Swaminathan主讲）。本讲座将重点介绍全球健康运营的主要挑战，并将关注在运营方面与其他商业公司相比的相似性和差异性。接着，三名专家组成员（Luk Van Wassenhove, Pinar Keskinocak, Gemma Berenguer）将展示他们在非营利性活动非常常见的其他应用领域的研究。最后一个研讨会争论是关于非营利性运营管理是否可以定义为OM研究中一个新的分支，其鲜明的特点和最有希望的未来研究方向是什么。

 致敬

客座编辑

 Gemma Berenguer, 普渡大学

Pinar Keskinocak, 乔治亚理工学院

J. George Shanthikumar, 普渡大学

Jayashankar Swaminathan,北卡罗莱纳大学

Luk Van Wassenhove, 欧洲工商管理学院

POM Special Issue on Not for Profit Operations Management  

Dear colleagues,

Over the past few years, there has been increasing interest in studying operational issues run by organizations that have not for profit incentives. In the area of Production and Operations Management (POM), the applied areas that have captured more attention related to this type of operations are humanitarian disaster management and global health care, but not for profit operations appear in multiple other applied settings. With this special issue we encourage POM researchers to develop rigorous and relevant analytical and empirical research in this emerging field of study. The topics related to not for profit operations of interest to the special issue include but are not limited to: 

·      Pricing

·      Inventory

·      Procurement and Supplier selection

·      Logistics in not for profit operations

·      Funds allocation

·      Donor problem of monitoring recipients

·      Donor problem of benchmarking recipients’ performance

·      Coordination between different recipient organizations

·      Coordination between different donors

·      Donor-recipient relationship

·      Performance measures

·      The design of fundraising mechanisms

·      The management of donations (earmarked donations, gifts-in-kind, voluntary labor)

 Deadline for submission of full papers will be announced after the 2014 POM conference to be held in Atlanta.

 Additional information about the Special Issue and relevant topics will be discussed during the Tutorial and Panel Discussion on Not for Profit Operations Management (May 9^th, Friday 1:30pm-3:00 pm, room M101) at the 2014 POMS Conference chaired by Gemma Berenguer and J. George Shanthikumar. This session will start with a tutorial (by Jayashankar Swaminathan) on global health. This talk will highlight the key challenges in global health operations and will focus on similarities and differences in the operations as compared to those of commercial firms. Next, three panelists (Luk Van Wassenhove, Pinar Keskinocak, Gemma Berenguer) will present their work related to other applied areas of research where nonprofit activities are common. A final discussion will debate whether Not for Profit Operations Management can be defined as a new stream of OM research, its distinctive features and the most promising future research directions.

 Best Regards,

 Guest Editors

 Gemma Berenguer, Purdue University

Pinar Keskinocak, Georgia Institute of Technology

J. George Shanthikumar, Purdue University

Jayashankar Swaminathan, UNC, Chapel Hill

Luk Van Wassenhove, INSEAD