Implications for innovative green operations such as energy storage, net-metering and algorithmic approaches
Responsible operations including topics related to agricultural operations, healthcare operations and humanitarian operations
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Selected Recent Papers
“Optimal Allocation of Limited Inventory among Multi-class Customers with Finite Populations”, Puyao Ge, Vidyadhar Kulkarni and Jayashankar M. Swaminathan, to appear, Operations Research.
“Measuring Consistency in Service Delivery: Examining the Effect of Process Standardization on Hospital Performance”, Anand Bhatia and Jayashankar M. Swaminathan, to appear, Production and Operations Management.
“Operations Management Research- Relevance and Impact”, Jayashankar M. Swaminathan, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, 27(1), January-February 2025, 1-7. This paper appeared as the lead article in the journal.
“Do Noisy Performance Reviews Discourage Online Platform Sellers?: Empirical Analysis of an Online Solar Marketplace”, Herbie Huang, Nur Sunar, Jayashankar M. Swaminathan and Rahul Roy, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, 25(6), November-December 2023, 2195-2215.
“Personal Fabrication as a Competitive Strategy: Value of Delegating Production to Consumer”, Nagarajan Sethuraman, Ali Parlakturk and Jayashankar M. Swaminathan, Production and Operations Management, 32(7), July 2023, 2362-2375.
“Socially Relevant and Inclusive Operations Management”, Nur Sunar and Jayashankar M. Swaminathan, Production and Operations Management, 31(12), December 2022, 4379-4392.
“Net-metered Distributed Renewable Energy – Peril for Utilities?”, Nur Sunar and Jayashankar M. Swaminathan, Management Science, 67(11), November 2021, 6716-6733.
“Blockchain Adoption for Combating Deceptive Counterfeits”, Hubert Pun, Jayashankar M. Swaminathan, and Pengwen Hou, Production and Operations Management, 30(4), April 2021, 864-882.
“Product Line Flexibility for Agile and Adaptable Operations”, Muge Yayla-Kullu, Jennifer Ryan and Jayashankar M. Swaminathan, Production and Operations Management, 30(3), March 2021, 725-737.
“Improved Crop Productivity through Optimized Planting Schedules”, Ying Zhang and Jayashankar M. Swaminathan, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, 22(6), November-December 2020, 1165-1180.
“Buyback Pricing of Durable Goods in Dual Distribution Channels”, Gokce Esenduran, Lauren Lu and Jayashankar M. Swaminathan, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, 22(2), March-April 2020, 412-428.
“Modeling Supply Chain Dynamics: A Multi Agent Approach” Jayashankar M. Swaminathan, Stephen F. Smith and Norman M. Sadeh, Decision Sciences, 29(3), Summer 1998, 607-632. This paper was ranked the top 15 papers in Decision Sciences journal over the last 50 years.
“Managing Broader Product Lines through Delayed Differentiation using Vanilla Boxes” Jayashankar M. Swaminathan and Sridhar R. Tayur, Management Science, 44(12.2), December 1998, S161-S172. This paper won the George Nicholson Prize given by INFORMS in 1996.
Tool Capacity Planning for Semiconductor Fabrication Facilities under Demand Uncertainty”, Jayashankar M. Swaminathan, European Journal of Operational Research, 120(2), February 2000, 545-558.
.“Utilizing Forecast Band Refinement for Capacitated Production Planning”, Philip Kaminskyand Jayashankar M. Swaminathan, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, 3(1), Winter 2001, 68-81.
“Enabling Customization using Standardized Operations”, Jayashankar M. Swaminathan, California Management Review, 43(3), Spring 2001, 125-135.
"A Coordinated Production Planning Model with Capacity Expansion and Inventory Management”, Sampath Rajagopalan and Jayashankar M. Swaminathan, Management Science, 47(11), November 2001, 1562-1580.
“Decision Support for Scarce Drug Allocation”, Jayashankar M. Swaminathan, Interfaces, 33(2), March-April, 2003, 1-11. This paper appeared as the lead article in the journal. The state of California has so far disbursed more than $150 million worth of drugs using this system. This work was a semi-finalist for the Franz Edelman Award in 2003 and finalist for the Wagner Prize in 2003.
“Models For Supply Chains in E-Business”, Jayashankar M. Swaminathan and Sridhar R. Tayur, Management Science, 49(10), October 2003, 1387-1406.
“Diffusion of Innovations under Supply Constraints”, Sunil Kumar and Jayashankar M. Swaminathan, Operations Research, 51(6), November-December 2003, 866-879.
“Multi-Product Inventory Planning with Downward Substitution, Stochastic Demand, and Setup Costs”, Uday S. Rao, Jayashankar M. Swaminathan and Jun Zhang, IIE Transactions, 36(1), January 2004, 59-71.
“Managing New and Remanufactured Products”, Geraldo Ferrer and Jayashankar M. Swaminathan, Management Science, 52(1), January 2006, 15-26.
.“Boiling Frogs: Pricing Strategy for a Manufacturer Adding a Direct Channel that Competes with the Traditional Channel”, Kyle Cattani, Wendell Gilland, Sebastian Heese and Jayashankar M. Swaminathan, Production and Operations Management, 15(1), Spring 2006, 40-57.
“Product Line Design with Component Commonality and Design Investments”, Hans S. Heese and Jayashankar M. Swaminathan, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, 8(2), Spring 2006, 206-219.
“Managing the Inventory of an Item with a Replacement Warranty”, Wei Huang, Vidyadhar Kulkarni and Jayashankar M. Swaminathan, Management Science, 54(8), August 2008, 1441-1452.
.“Is Timely Information Always Better?: The Effect of Feedback Frequency on Performance and Knowledge Acquisition”, Nicholas Lurie and Jayashankar M. Swaminathan, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 108(2), March 2009, 315-329. This paper was featured in the Intelligence section, “Downside of Real Time Data”, Sloan Management Review, 50(1), 2008, 9-10.
“Introduction of a Second Channel: Implications for Pricing and Profits”, Wei Huang and Jayashankar M. Swaminathan, European Journal of Operational Research, 194(1), April 2009, 258-279.
“A Matter of Balance: Specialization, Task Variety, and Individual Learning in a Software Maintenance Environment”, Sriram Narayanan, Sridhar Balasubramanian and Jayashankar M. Swaminathan, Management Science, 55(11), November 2009, 1861-1876.
“Misplaced Inventory and RFID: Information and Coordination”, Almula Camdereli and Jayashankar M. Swaminathan, Production and Operations Management, 19(1), Jan-Feb 2010, 1-18. This paper appeared as the lead article in the journal.
"Antecedents of Process Integration in Business Process Outsourcing and its effect on Firm Performance”, Vaidy Jayaraman, Sriram Narayanan, Yudong Lau and Jayashankar M. Swaminathan, Journal of Operations Management, 29(1), January 2011, 3-16. This paper appeared as the lead article in the journal.
“Multiproduct Quality Competition: Impact of Resource Constraints”, Muge Yayla-Kullu, Ali Parlakturk and Jayashankar M. Swaminathan, Production and Operations Management, 22(3), May-June 2013, 603-614.
“Effect of Traffic on Sales and Conversion Rates of Retail Stores”, Olga Perdikaki, Saravanan Kesavan and Jayashankar M. Swaminathan, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, 14(1), Winter 2012, 145-162. This paper was a finalist for the M&SOM Best Paper Award in 2015.
“When Supply Chains Save Lives”, Jan Komrska, Laura Kopczak and Jayashankar M. Swaminathan, Supply Chain Management Review, January-February 2013, 42-49.
“Vertical Integration under Competition: Forward, Backward or No Integration?”, Yen-Ting Lin, Ali Parlakturk and Jayashankar M. Swaminathan, Production and Operations Management, 23(1), January 2014, 19-35.
“Inventory Management in Humanitarian Operations: Impact of Amount, Schedule, and Uncertainty in Funding”, Karthik Natarajan and Jayashankar M. Swaminathan, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, 16(4), Fall 2014, 595-603.
“Impact of Take Back Regulation on the Remanufacturing Industry”, Gokce Esenduran, Eda Kemahlioglu Ziya and Jayashankar M. Swaminathan, Production and Operations Management, 26(5), May 2017, 924-944.
“Are Strategic Customers Bad for a Supply Chain?”, Yen-Ting Lin, Ali Parlakturk and Jayashankar M. Swaminathan, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, 20(3), Summer 2018, 481-497.
“Big Data Analytics for Rapid, Impact, Sustained and Efficient (RISE) Humanitarian Supply Chains”, Jayashankar M. Swaminathan, Production and Operations Management, 27(9), September 2018, 1696-1700.
“Customer Learning in Call Centers from Previous Waiting Experiences”, Seyed Emadi and Jayashankar M. Swaminathan, Operations Research, 66(5), September-October, 2018, 1433-1456.
“Managing Uncertain Tasks in Technology-Intensive Project Environments: A Multi-Method Study of Task Closure and Capacity Management Decisions”, Sriram Narayanan, Sridhar Balasubramanian, Jayashankar M. Swaminathan and Ying Zhang, Journal of Operations Management, 66(3), April 2020, 260-280. This paper appeared as the lead article in the journal. This paper was an honorable mention for the JOM Best Paper Award in 2020.