Editorial Aims and Scope

Editorial Aims

The growth in all aspects of research in the last decade has led to a multitude of new publications and an exponential increase in published research. Finding a way through the excellent existing literature and keeping up to date has become a major time-consuming problem. Electronic publishing has given researchers instant access to more articles than ever before. But which articles are the essential ones that should be read to understand and keep abreast with developments of any topic? To address this problem Foundations and Trends® in Technology, Information and Operations Management publishes high-quality survey and tutorial monographs of the field.

Each issue of Foundations and Trends® in Technology, Information and Operations Management comprises a 50-100 page monograph written by research leaders in the field. Monographs that give tutorial coverage of subjects, research retrospectives as well as survey papers that offer state-of-the-art reviews fall within the scope of the journal.

Editorial Scope

Foundations and Trends® in Technology, Information and Operations Management publishes survey and tutorial articles on the following topics:

  • B2B Commerce
  • Business Process Engineering and Design
  • Business Process Outsourcing
  • Capacity Planning
  • Competitive Operations
  • Contracting in Supply Chains
  • E-Commerce and E-Business Models
  • Electronic markets, auctions and exchanges
  • Enterprise Management Systems
  • Facility Location
  • Information Chain Structure and Competition
  • International Operations
  • Marketing/Manufacturing Interfaces
  • Multi-location inventory theory
  • New Product & Service Design
  • Queuing Networks
  • Reverse Logistics
  • Service Logistics and Product Support
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Technology Management and Strategy
  • Technology, Information and Operations in:
    • Automotive Industries
    • Electronics manufacturing
    • Financial Services
    • Health Care
    • Industrial Equipment
    • Media and Entertainment
    • Process Industries
    • Retailing
    • Telecommunications