Managing pandemics: A POM perspective and directions for future research
从生产与运营管理视角，总结14篇特刊论文在公共政策、医院容量、疫情传播、人道运营、公私合作和疫苗生产六类主题上的研究，并指出未来需关注疫情前中后阶段的运营问题。
COVID‐19 pandemic has revealed how unprepared operations and supply chain professionals are for “abnormal” conditions. Understanding how the production and operations management field can affect the trajectory and especially the remediation of pandemics is a critical, but understudied, area of research from descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive perspectives. Fourteen research articles in this special issue have attempted to fill this gap with rigor. We first summarize these articles in six categories, (1) public policies and government interventions, (2) hospital capacity, (3) propagation of pandemics, (4) humanitarian operations, (5) private partnerships, and (6) vaccine production, by drawing out the themes addressed. As we look ahead at pandemics yet to come, we note there is still much research needed and conclude by discussing emergent interest in promising themes for studying pre‐pandemic, during pandemic, and post‐pandemic operations.