Managing pandemics: A POM perspective and directions for future research
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5-1-2023
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Abstract
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.
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Anderson, Edward; Gupta, Sushil; Joglekar, Nitin; and Starr, Martin, "Managing pandemics: A POM perspective and directions for future research" (2023). Coronavirus Research at FIU. 170.
https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/covid-19_research/170
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