Assessing the exchange of knowledge between operations management and other fields: Some challenges and opportunities
通过分析30年间三大运营管理期刊与27本其他领域期刊的互引情况，发现运营管理引用其他领域期刊的次数是其他领域引用运营管理期刊的25倍，并探讨了运营管理向外输出知识的挑战与机遇。
Abstract Addressing a suspicion that the field of Operations Management (OM) draws substantially more knowledge from non‐OM journals than those journals draw from OM journals in return, we studied the citations of the top 30 research journals of interest to our field. We conducted citation analyses of the three oldest OM journals over three decades in comparison to the 27 other journals representing the fields of Management, Operations Research/Management Science (OR/MS), Marketing, Practice, and Engineering. We examined both the entire 30‐year period and then each decade separately. Our suspicions were confirmed—although citations from these 27 journals to these three OM journals have increased by a factor of 7 over the three decades, we in OM still cite these journals about twenty‐five times more often than they cite our journals, giving an indication of the knowledge development and flows among these fields. We then describe some challenges for the field of OM in providing more research knowledge to other fields but also some opportunities that OM should be able to capitalize on, such as our historic ties to practice and our escalating research in strategic and organizational issues.