Administration and Management Commons, and the Other Business Commons

[Excerpt] As the readers of Journal of Operations Management (JOM) very well know, JOM has had a long history of encouraging articles exploring new frontiers in the field. Following this rich tradition and encouragement from editor‐in‐chief Robert Handfield, we invited papers for a special issue of JOM on Operations Management in Not‐For‐Profit, Public and Government Sectors in early 2003. The call for papers encouraged researchers to submit manuscripts related to a wide range of topics including exploring the similarities and differences between operations management practices in not‐for‐profit organizations, public sector/government agencies and for‐profit corporations; strategic consensus among/between multiple stakeholders (e.g. donors, employees, volunteers, users, clients, policymakers, community); measurement of operational performance and relationship between operations strategy and performance; issues governin