Education:

• Master of Science in Business Administration, Korea University Business School, August 2007
• Bachelor of Business Administration, Korea University Business School, August 2005

Research Interest:

• Service Operations Management
• Business and Information Technology
• Green Supply Chain

Education:

• M.S. in Information Management  (Arizona State University)
• M.S. in Agribusiness Marketing (Arizona State University)
• B.A. in Diplomacy and International Trade  (Foreign Affairs College)

Research Focus:

• Services Outsourcing

Submittals Under Review:

• State of Inductive Case Studies in OM by Dr. Mark Barratt, Dr. Thomas Y. Choi and Mei Li.  Under review at Production and Operations Management.

Working Paper:

• Services Outsourcing and Shifting Relationship Structures: Bridge Decay and Bridge Transfer by Mei Li and Dr. Thomas Y. Choi. Target: Journal of Operations Management

Conference Paper:

• Evolution of Inductive Case Studies in Operations Management by Dr. Mark Barratt, Dr. Thomas Choi and Mei Li.  Paper accepted to Academy of Management Conference, Philadelphia, August 2007

Awards and Recognitions:

• 2007 - Supply Chain Management Department Distinguished Doctoral Fellowship Award
• 2007 – Finalist for the Chen Hahn Best Paper Award by the Operation Management Division of the Academy of Management Conference.

Education:

• M.Eng., Industrial & Operations Engineering (Manufacturing focus), 2003, (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
• M.S.E., Mechanical Engineering, 2002, (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
• B.E., Mechanical Engineering, 1994, (Korea University, Seoul, Korea)

Research Areas:

• Buyer-supplier relationships, network embeddedness, supply chain & network design, supply chain strategy (supply base rationalization, supply chain integration), social network theory, social capital theory, organization theory, systems theory

Research in Progress :

• “Expanding the Buyer-Supplier Relationship Taxonomy: Integration of “Strong-Weak Tie” Concept,” Yoousoon Kim & Thomas Choi – Working paper
• “Re-thinking Buyer-Supplier Relationship: A Structural Embeddedness Perspective,” Yoousoon Kim & Thomas Choi – Working paper
• "Network Embeddedness Effects on Firm's Performance: Implications for Strategic Supplier Evaluation Practices," Yoousoon Kim & Thomas Choi - Working paper
• “The Structural Embeddedness View: Network Positional Strategy and Sources of Inter-organizational Competitive Advantage,” Yoousoon Kim – Working paper
• “Supply Base Rationalization: Theory-Building from Eight Cases,” Thomas Choi, Robert Monczka, Yoousoon Kim – Working paper

Education:

• M.S. in Supply Engineering and Logistics, 2003 (The University of Warwick, Coventry, UK)
• B.S. in Computer Sciences, 1996 (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil)

Experience:

• Founder and director of a Brazilian high tech services provider firm for the transportation industry
• Consulting services for large carriers and third-party logistics providers
• Teaching at post-graduate level

Research Activities:

• Aggregate demand planning and forecasting for human resource needs on a project-oriented environment
• Inventory inaccuracy

Research Areas:

• Innovation management in service supply chains
• Transportation management and multi-modalism
• IT for SCM
• Supply Chain Integration
• Entrepreneurship

Adrian Tan
Adrian.Tan@asu.edu

Education:

• M.B.A – National University of Singapore, 2000
• B.S Electrical Engineering – State University of Maryland, 1989

Experience:

• Operations Management in Manufacturing, Telecommunications and IT Services
• Service Management in Customer Services
  
• Integrated Processes Management
  
• Worked in Wearnes-Thakral, SingTel and Siemens companies.

Research Activities:

• CAPS Research - Innovation at Supplier-Buyer level

Research Areas:

• Industrial clustering and buyer-supplier relationships

Education:

• B.Eng., Management Information System, 2003, (Zhongnan University of Economics and Law) Wuhan, China
• M.S.in progress, Management Science, 2004-2006, Thesis will be defended in 2008, (Fudan University) Shanghai, China

Research Areas:

• Timing decisions in multi-stage inventory management, game theory in supply chain coordination, integration of financial derivatives in supply contracts, Internet-based supply chain, supply risk management from a real option perspective, global sourcing

Publications:

• The procurement function's role in strategic outsourcing from a process perspective, International Journal of Procurement Management, waiting for publication, with Joseph Carter
• "The Application of System Dynamics in Managing Procurement Disruption Risk." System Engineering, 2006 supplement (With Hongyu Li and a part of the key project named "a study of supply chain coordination theories, application technologies and operational tactics" funded by National Natural Science Foundation)
• The application of principal-agent model in choosing the right operation pattern in international franchising. Logistic Science and Technology March, 2006, No.3, 2006, P.72-74 & 77
• A multi-criterion method based on AHP used to classify inventory items Logistic Science and Technology, Sep. 2005, No.11, 2005, P.34-37 (With Hongyu Li)

Submittals Under Review:

• How Procurement Managers View Low Cost Countries and Geographies: A Perceptual Mapping Approach, International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management, with Joseph R. Carter, Arnold Maltz and Elliot Maltz

Working Papers:

• Entry Timing In a Secondary Market: When to Trade? (with Kevin Dooley and Rui Yin )
• The impact of Inventory Allocation Policies on Reducing Service Bullwhip Effect in an Internet Retailing Setting (With Elliot Rabinovich and Kevin Dooley