Editorial to the JOM special issue on Pre-approved Research Designs for Field Experiments. In addition to introducing the papers that were part of this process, we present the learnings for both the authors and the handling editors of the special issue. We conclude with our reflections on the main insights gained from this trial and the remaining challenges for deploying pre-approved research designs for Operations Management research.

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• operations 143
• strategy and entrepreneurship 191