Just as the total quality management revolution brought operation management into contact with views from human resource management and organizational behavior, and the supply chain revolution did the same with system dynamics, industrial organizational, and game theory, the environmental perspective is beginning to make the operation management community aware of other fields, including risk analysis, life-cycle assessment, industrial ecology, contingent valuation methods, and consumer research tools for eliciting environmental preferences. These fields have already developed important insights related to operation management, and progress in operation management, in turn, is dependent on effectively leveraging and integrating their discoveries and methods. Based on this trend to date, and extrapolating from the total quality management and supply chain management timelines, we make the following testable predictions.