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To provide an outline of the experiences of an editor of IJOPM.

Provides a brief summary of the author's experiences.

Notes that it was interesting to observe the way in which topics waxed and waned. A crucial test for any academic journal is whether it is regarded highly by those working in the field – there is evidence that this journal has established a strong International reputation in its subject area.

Provides an introduction to the special issue.

Logistics in the industrial sense started in transportation and distribution. Now it is a much broader professional function crossing the traditional boundaries of supply, manufacture and retail. The emergence of logistics as a total concept particularly in the UK is discussed by Bob Hoilier, professor of Operational Management in the Management Science Department at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology and Editor‐in‐Chief of Logistics World.

BEC Group Limited is replacing a mixture of existing manufacturing systems at aircraft manufacturer Avro International with an integrated 400‐user system, based on BEC's manufacturing total management system (MTMS) package. Avro, a subsidiary of British Aerospace Regional Aircraft Limited, estimates that the deal, which is valued at £475,000, will cut the annual cost of manufacturing computer systems by 80 per cent and achieve a payback in 28 months.

For generations retailing has had to fight against its image as a second‐class occupation. Successive governments have tended to regard it as less important than manufacturing industry, and this view has been reinforced by careers officers who, in the palmy days when school‐leavers were in the privileged position of having an element of choice in their jobs, adopted a condescending if not dismissive attitude to “working in a shop”. If anything this attitude has been even more marked at graduate level; as our contributor writes, retailing has been generally neglected by universities, and even by many management centres and business schools. There are, of course, some exceptions. One of the most notable of these is the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology; UMIST was one of the first in the UK to develop courses in retailing, and these are described here in some detail. The author is only too well aware that there are a number of universities and polytechnics whose retail courses have not been mentioned in this feature; equally that there are personnel officers who will justifiably feel that they are not guilty of the charges levelled against them in the section entitled “Graduate Retailers”. We welcome correspondence from educational organisations or individuals who desire to put the record straight.

Introduces the special issue, a celebration of 25 years of IJOPM.

Provides a brief review of the first 25 years.

Outlines the philosophy and values of IJOPM, and the developments that have changed operations management practices and research.

Provides an introduction to the special issue.

To provide an outline of an editor's experiences in the early years of publishing IJOPM.

Provides a brief summary of the author's experiences.

Being a new journal, it was found that there was insufficient copy, and this was not helped by the limited number of potential authors. However, the objective of increasing the number of issues in a volume was achieved by the publication of an extra issue each year from 1985 to 1993, with papers of quality. Editorship of a journal subject to the scrutiny of academics is a challenging task.

Provides an introduction to the special issue.

In the last four years, since Volume I of this Bibliography first appeared, there has been an explosion of literature in all the main functional areas of business. This wealth of material poses problems for the researcher in management studies — and, of course, for the librarian: uncovering what has been written in any one area is not an easy task. This volume aims to help the librarian and the researcher overcome some of the immediate problems of identification of material. It is an annotated bibliography of management, drawing on the wide variety of literature produced by MCB University Press. Over the last four years, MCB University Press has produced an extensive range of books and serial publications covering most of the established and many of the developing areas of management. This volume, in conjunction with Volume I, provides a guide to all the material published so far.

Before introducing the articles in this special issue, and taking the First World Conference on Operations Management as an example, the author proposes a new‐conference product, an innovation in service design and implementation. He describes nine key factors which need to be taken into account in order to achieve outstanding success in this kind of service.