IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/bla/popmgt/v32y2023i5p1295-1306.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Managing pandemics: A POM perspective and directions for future research

Author

Listed:
  • Edward Anderson
  • Sushil Gupta
  • Nitin Joglekar
  • Martin Starr

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.

Suggested Citation

  • Edward Anderson & Sushil Gupta & Nitin Joglekar & Martin Starr, 2023. "Managing pandemics: A POM perspective and directions for future research," Production and Operations Management, Production and Operations Management Society, vol. 32(5), pages 1295-1306, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:popmgt:v:32:y:2023:i:5:p:1295-1306
    DOI: 10.1111/poms.13978
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/poms.13978
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1111/poms.13978?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Navid Mohamadi & Hataw Bakhishi & Sandra Transchel & Maria Besiou, 2023. "Impact of pandemics on humanitarian retailing operations: A voucher's case," Production and Operations Management, Production and Operations Management Society, vol. 32(5), pages 1512-1528, May.
    2. Masoud Shahmanzari & Fehmi Tanrisever & Enes Eryarsoy & Ahmet Şensoy, 2023. "Managing disease containment measures during a pandemic," Production and Operations Management, Production and Operations Management Society, vol. 32(5), pages 1362-1379, May.
    3. Minmin Zhang & Guihua Wang & Jun Li & Wallace J. Hopp & David D. Lee, 2023. "Pausing transplants in the face of a global pandemic: Patient survival implications," Production and Operations Management, Production and Operations Management Society, vol. 32(5), pages 1380-1396, May.
    4. Theodoros Evgeniou & Mathilde Fekom & Anton Ovchinnikov & Raphaël Porcher & Camille Pouchol & Nicolas Vayatis, 2023. "Pandemic lockdown, isolation, and exit policies based on machine learning predictions," Production and Operations Management, Production and Operations Management Society, vol. 32(5), pages 1307-1322, May.
    5. Apurva Jain & Swapnil Rayal, 2023. "Managing medical equipment capacity with early spread of infection in a region," Production and Operations Management, Production and Operations Management Society, vol. 32(5), pages 1415-1432, May.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.

      More about this item

      Statistics

      Access and download statistics

      Corrections

      All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:bla:popmgt:v:32:y:2023:i:5:p:1295-1306. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

      If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

      If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

      If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

      For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Wiley Content Delivery (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1937-5956 .

      Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

      IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.