SUBMISSION

The MSOM 2025 Conference will be held on the campus of the London Business School in London from Friday, 27 June 2025 to 29 June 2025. On behalf of the organizing committee, we are delighted to invite you to submit your work to the conference.

 

Important Dates (All dates reflect US Eastern Standard Time)

• Submission open: 10 January 2025
• SIG submission deadline (full paper): 24 January 2025
• Main conference submission deadline (three-page extended abstract): 31 January 2025
• Notification of acceptance decisions: 15 April 2025
• Presenter (for both oral presentation and poster session) registration deadline: 7 May 2025
• Schedule available for authors: 15 May 2025

Please note that no extensions will be given for the submission deadline. To facilitate the review process, we encourage you to submit your papers as early as possible.

Guidelines

• This year both SIG Day submissions and main conference submissions will be through Manuscript Central. (please find the submission link below).
• In a departure from previous conferences, each attendee is limited to one presentation during the entire three-day conference period, including SIG meeting and the main conference.
• Please do NOT submit the same work to multiple SIGs. (However, please do submit the same work to both a SIG conference and the MSOM conference if you want the submission to be considered for the MSOM conference in the case of a rejection at the SIG conference.)

Submissions to open on January 10, 2025

SIG Day Submission

The SIG mini-conferences of the Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (MSOM) Society will hold its annual conference in-person on June 27, 2025. Please see the specific requirement from each SIG Day committees below.

The authors can find the scope of each SIG via the INFORMS MSOM SIG webpage.

Submission Guidelines and Review Process

1. Parallel submission to the MSOM main conference: SIG authors who want their paper/talk to be considered for MSOM main conference presentation (in case of rejection by the SIG) must also submit a three-page extended abstract to the MSOM main conference separately by January 31, 2025. Please indicate that you have made a submission to the corresponding when submitting to the MSOM main conference. Review of SIG paper submissions and main conference extended abstract submissions will occur in parallel. Extended abstracts submitted to the main conference in this way will go through the usual main conference review procedure, independent of the SIG review. If a paper is accepted for SIG presentation, it will be removed from consideration for the main conference. This process helps ensure consistent review standards for the main conference.

Single Purpose: Considered for SIG-Day presentation only.

• Review: Conducted by the SIG-Day Event Co-chairs and reviewers using the SIG review form.
• Decision: Made by the SIG-Day Event Co-chairs.

2. SIG Submission Options: Authors may only submit their work for consideration by a single SIG among the options listed above.

Dual Purpose (SIG+M&SOM 1RR): These submissions are considered for both the SIG-Day presentation and the first-round review at M&SOM.

• Eligibility: Papers not under review at any other journals.
• Review: Conducted by the M&SOM journal review team (DE, AE, referees) using the M&SOM journal review form.
• Decision
  • SIG-Day presentation: Determined by SIG-Day Event Co-chairs.
  • M&SOM journal: Determined by the M&SOM review team
  • Papers recommended for Major Revision continue at M&SOM with the same review team.
  • Papers not recommended for Major Revision at M&SOM may be submitted to M&SOM as new submissions.

Paper Format

• Each paper should comply with M&SOM journal formatting standards
• To facilitate double-blind review, the paper should not contain author names.
• The paper should be submitted as a PDF file.
• The submitting / corresponding author must be the individual who would present the work if accepted.

Main Conference Submission

 

The M&SOM Conference will be held on 28 – 29 June 2025. We invite you to submit your work to the main conference.

Abstract Format

• Each abstract should be no more than three pages with 1-inch margins, 11-point font, and at most 33 lines per page. The abstract should include the title, a description of the research problem, the assumptions used, the key methodology, and a summary of major results and their significance. References, if any, should be included within the three pages.
• To facilitate double-blind review, the abstract should not contain author names.
• The abstract should be submitted as a PDF file.

Guidelines

• The submitting / corresponding author must be the individual who would present the work if accepted.
• Abstracts will be selected for oral presentation by double-blinded review. If you submit the same paper to the SIG, the two review processes will be independent to ensure consistent standards among papers accepted in the main conference.
• The main conference will also organize a poster session on Sunday for a selected subset of papers not chosen for oral presentation. The presenting author will be notified in mid-April 2025 whether their submission is accepted for the poster session. We ask the authors to kindly inform the organizing committee whether they will participate in the poster session, and if yes, register for conference, by 7 May 2025.
• Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to get in touch with the conference organizing committee via email at MSOM2025@london.edu.