Special Issue Call for Papers:
Global Education 4.0 for Operations and Supply Chain Management
Note: The deadline for submissions has been extended to July 31, 2024.
As with each industrial revolution before, the Industry 4.0 era has created the Education 4.0 paradigm. The
pedagogical literature regarding needed knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSA) has evolved over the past
years (Visich et al., 2021). Despite the abundance of KSAs and competencies studies in the operations and
supply chain management (OSCM) field, several scholars (Stek and Schiele, 2021; van Hoek, 2021;
Nikookar, and Yanadori, 2022) emphasized the need to explore the trends for the OSCM professional
development and the required entry-level talent/skills to be better prepared for entering the workplace.
The Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education (DSJIE) is seeking submissions for a special issue
dedicated to teaching in this Global Education 4.0 era, i.e., innovative methods for teaching the KSAs to
meet the needs of OSCM professionals in the Industry 4.0 era. The topics for this special issue include but
are not limited to:
• Evidence-based learning outcomes for the training of key competencies, both transversal (soft)
and disciplinary (hard), in the OSCM profession.
• The improvement of existing programs and courses to fill the educational gap for OSCM in
Education 4.0.
• In-class exercises or projects that lead to KSA for OSCM in the Education 4.0 era.
• Innovative educational methods and techniques that utilize Industry 4.0 technologies such as
artificial intelligence, machine learning, blockchain, Radio Frequency Identification, and other
OSCM technologies.
• Innovative educational methods that teach software skills in supply chain planning, supply chain
visibility, inventory management, warehouse management systems, and transportation
management systems.
• Comprehensive in-class exercises that focus on problem-solving KSAs for OSCM: problem
identification, problem definition, information gathering, analysis, and implementation.
For this special issue, DSJIE is interested in conceptual and empirical papers, and teaching briefs that focus
on Global Education 4.0. Please reference
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/15404609/homepage/forauthors.html for definitions of article
formats. We welcome submissions that describe novel methods and/or approaches to undergraduate or
MBA-level OSCM courses. We are especially interested in submissions that target the Education 4.0 KSAs
for OSCM professional development.
Review Process and Publication Timeline: Submissions will be considered on a rolling basis as they
arrive. The deadlines are listed below:
• Manuscript submissions: July 31st, 2024
• Final acceptance decisions: December 31st, 2024
• Publication: April 2025