This special issue implores us to address sustainability from the lens of emerging economies and the role that innovation can play in this context. We posit that, for sustainable operations research to be relevant in the context of emerging economies, it needs to incorporate social concerns and...

We study recycling technology choice, a critical factor that has received little attention in the context of extended producer responsibility, and its interaction with product design-for-recycling in driving the environmental benefits of recycling systems. Collective recycling systems have long...

Many knowledge-intensive projects, such as new product development and research and development, involve a team of workers who jointly work to achieve an uncertain outcome within a finite deadline. Because of the joint-production nature of work, such teams are often prone to free riding. In this...

Unlike manufacturing processes, knowledge-intensive projects are often iterative, stochastic, and collaborative. In this paper, we study how contractual arrangements affect the work dynamics between a vendor and a client in finite-deadline collaborative projects. We consider a project that has...

For firms to be able to compete in the complex and dynamic nature of today's economy, they need to continually innovate. Thereupon, it is important to understand the drivers of innovation at firms. In this paper, we study the effect of employee satisfaction on firms' innovation performance. We...

Motivated by several nonprofit organizations (NPOs) that support and serve distressed individuals, we study the impact of scalability on the service design of resource-constrained NPOs who need to balance advisory and service delivery efforts to maximize their social impact. We model the NPO's...

Many knowledge-intensive projects such as new product and software design, research and high technology development have flexible scope and involve co-production between a client and a vendor. In such projects, it is often challenging to estimate how much progress can be achieved within a...