CALL FOR PAPERS
OMEGA:THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
 
Special issue on: 
FORECASTING IN MANAGEMENT SCIENCE: A SURVEY OF DEVELOPMENTS OVER 
THE LAST 40 YEARS

Special issue guest editors
John E. Boylan
Aris A. Syntetos

Special issue theme
Sales forecasting is critical for many aspects of business planning (strategic, 
financial, marketing and logistics). This is an area that has benefited, over 
many years, from Management Science (MS) interventions. Traditionally, MS 
improvements have been algorithmic, and work in this area continues to 
flourish. However, more recently, MS work has broadened to include whole 
system planning and a re-discovery of the role of System Thinking/Dynamics. 
There has been increased interest, too, in the role of human judgement in 
forecasting and the scope for organisational learning. Related research into 
information systems to support forecasting and planning is becoming 
increasingly important.

Papers are invited for a special issue on ‘Forecasting in Management Science: 
A survey of developments over the last 40 years’ of OMEGA: The International 
Journal of Management Science. We are looking at publishing about 10 papers 
that collectively will capture the most significant developments in the field and 
set the agenda for further research in this area. Ideally, the papers should 
present a critical review of the relevant literature, followed by a state-of-the-
art original application in the form of an organisational case study/empirical 
intervention or experimentation with real-world data, and culminate with the 
natural next steps of research in the respective areas.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
•	Forecasting and Planning Systems;
•	Forecasting Processes;
•	Forecasting Support Systems (FSS);
•	Hierarchical Forecasting Systems;
•	Integration of System Dynamics and Forecasting Models;
•	Judgemental Forecasting;
•	Knowledge Sharing and Organisational Learning;
•	Performance Measurement;
•	Product Classification for Forecasting.

Manuscript preparation and submission
To prepare their manuscripts, authors are asked to closely follow 
the ‘Instructions to Authors’ available at: 
http://www.omegajournal.org/authors.html. Authors should submit their 
papers via the EES http://www.ees.elsevier.com/omega/ and indicate in the 
title ‘Special Issue: Forecasting in Management Science: A survey of 
developments over the last 40 years’. Submitted papers should not have been 
previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication 
elsewhere. Manuscripts will be refereed according to the standards of OMEGA.

Publication schedule
We are interested in papers that currently constitute work-in-progress but we 
would also like to encourage new research to be developed as a result of the 
call. Consequently, the submission deadline is May 31st 2010.
Manuscript submission: May 31, 2010
Reviewer reports: August 31, 2010	
Revised paper submission: November 30, 2010	
Final manuscript submission to publishers: February 28, 2011		

Special issue guest editors
For any enquiries please contact either of the special issue guest editors:

Dr Aris A. Syntetos
Salford Business School
University of Salford
Maxwell Building
Manchester M5 4WT, UK
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+44 (0) 161 295 5804

Prof. John E. Boylan
Faculty of Enterprise & Innovation
Buckinghamshire New University
Queen Alexandra Road, High Wycombe
Bucks HP11 2JZ, UK
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+44 (0) 1494 605130