The Decision Sciences Institute 's 2009 Annual Meeting theme is “Celebrating 40 Years of Fellowship, Learning & Advancing the Practice of Decision Making.” We invite basic, applied, theory, and case study research in the field of decision making, as well as proposals for panel discussions, symposia, workshops, and tutorials dealing with research or pedagogical issues. Program schedule information is now available. Also, check out reduced hotel guest room rates.

See the current news publication for feature articles such DSI President's Ram Narasimhan's Update on Board Actions, President-elect Vision Statements by Krishna S. Dhir of Berry College and Marc J. Schniederjans of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Partnering with Industry—Easier Said Than Done: Ten Lessons Learned, by Douglas N. Hales and Shaw K. Chen, University of Rhode Island; The Dilemma of Trying to Understand the ‘Real World,’ by Mikko Ketokivi, Helsinki University of Technology; Enhancing Course Delivery in Operations Management: Integrating Web Technology and Face-to-Face Learning, by Arash Azadegan and Lisa McLain-Sharp, New Mexico State University; Trends and Differences of Perceptions among Web 2.0 Users: Lessons for the Future Use and Study of Web 2.0, by J. P. Shim, Mississippi State University; Kyung-Mo Ahn, Korea Culture & Content Agency and Kyung Hee University; and Juyeon Kim, International Tourism Strategy Institute and Kyung Hee University; The Times are Changing: A Call for Governing Boards of Universities to Awaken to Sarbanes-Oxley and Practice of Good Governance, by Jean Harris, Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg; and Gary Cunningham, Jönköping International Business School, Sweden; and Essentials of Operations Management, by Keah Choon TanY, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. The entire issue is also available as a pdf file. (Beginning with the July 2009 issue and until further notice, the publication will be available in electronic format only.)

ISDSI invites submissions to 3rd annual conference in Hyderabad, India

The Indian Subcontinent Decision Sciences Institute (ISDSI) Region will hold its third annual conference on Global Interdependence and Decision Sciences at the lush green ASCI, Hyderabad campus on December 28-30, 2009. The conference is co-sponsored by ASCI, Hyderabad, India; IIT Mumbai, Mumbai, India; and ISDSI. For more information, see the website below or contact Karuna Jain, President, ISDSI; SJMSoM, IIT Bombay; kjain@iitb.ac.in .

http://www.icgids2009.in

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The Board of Directors of the Decision Sciences Institute is pleased to announce a new journal, Supply Chain Management Research (SCMR), in the broad interdisciplinary area of supply chain management, to be published by John Wiley & Sons. Ram Narasimhan (Michigan State University) and Soumen Ghosh (Georgia Tech) will be the founding co-editors-in-chief.

The primary motivation for DSI to start this journal is the fact that other than a few related practitioner-oriented journals, there is currently no top-tier, scholarly journal dedicated entirely to supply chain management. Since the volume of research and researchers in supply chain management is growing rapidly, this new journal will fulfill the need for a premier outlet for publishing high quality, scholarly research in the supply chain management domain.

The mission of SCMR is to be the premier scholarly research journal in the cross-disciplinary area of supply chain management. To pursue this mission, SCMR will publish papers of the highest quality that make a significant and substantial contribution to advancing the knowledge frontier in the field of supply chain management. Papers suitable for publication in SCMR must demonstrate

• Methodological rigor expected from high-quality scholarly research
• Conceptual, theoretical, and analytical soundness
• Significant contribution towards creating new knowledge or extending existing knowledge and theories

SCMR will seek to publish at least four issues a year. All submissions will be double-blind refereed. The editorial board will follow the department structure, with each key area having a departmental editor. The editorial philosophy of SCMR is such that empirical, conceptual as well as analytical papers will be suitable for submission to the journal. Further elaboration of the editorial policy and review system are currently being finalized. The details of the journal including the editorial board will be published on the DSI website soon. Paper submissions in electronic form will be accepted after August 31, 2009. Please direct your inquiries to one of the co-editors-in-chief.