Each year the Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (MSOM) Society of INFORMS conducts a student paper competition. In Volume 2, Issue 2 of M&SOM, we published the extended abstracts of the 1999 winners in the hopes that this could become an annual event. Our hopes have become a...

While there is overwhelming support for the negative consequences of product recalls, empirical evidence of operational drivers of recalls is almost non-existent. In this study, we identify product-variety (measured as the number of factory installed options), plant-variety (measured as the...