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Thomas Choi is a Professor of Supply Chain Management at the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. He leads the study of the upstream side of supply chains, where a buying company interfaces with many suppliers organized in various forms of networks. He has published articles in the Academy of Management Executive, Decision Sciences Journal, Decision Support Systems, Harvard Business Review, Journal of Management, Journal of Operations Management, Journal of Supply Chain Management, Production and Operations Management, and others.
He currently serves as co-director of the Complex Adaptive Supply Networks Research Accelerator (CASN-RA), an international research group of scholars interested in supply networks. He has also worked with numerous public and private organizations including LG Electronics, Samsung, Toyota, Volvo, the U.S. Department of Energy, and a federal government think tank. He has co-authored three practitioner books on supply management including one recently published on Supply Chain Financing.
From 2014 to 2019, he served as Harold E. Fearon Chair of Purchasing Management and Executive Director of CAPS Research, a joint venture between Arizona State University and the Institute for Supply Management. From 2011 to 2014, he served as co-editor in chief for the Journal of Operations Management.
In 2012, he was recognized as the Distinguished Operations Management Scholar by the OM Division at the Academy of Management. Since 2018, he has been listed as a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Web of Science for having “multiple highly cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year.” Most recently, he was ranked one among the “top 50 researchers by publication score” based on SCM papers appearing in a set of seven leading journals over a 15 year period (see Table 1 in Babbar et al. 2019).
ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS (Selected)
PRACTITIONER-ORIENTED PUBLICATIONS (Selected)
FUNDED RESEARCH
2016-present
2016-2018
2015-2016
2010-2013
2010-2012
2008-2010
2005-2007
2002-2003
2002
2000-2002
2000
2000
1999-2000
1999
1999
1998-1999
1997-1999
1994-1998
1995-1997
1994-1995
1993-1995
Spring 2021 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
SCM 492 | Honors Directed Study |
SCM 493 | Honors Thesis |
Fall 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
SCM 355 | Supply Management |
SCM 492 | Honors Directed Study |
SCM 493 | Honors Thesis |
Spring 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
SCM 492 | Honors Directed Study |
SCM 493 | Honors Thesis |
Fall 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
SCM 355 | Supply Management |
SCM 492 | Honors Directed Study |
SCM 493 | Honors Thesis |
SCM 791 | Seminar |
Spring 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
SCM 493 | Honors Thesis |
Fall 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
SCM 355 | Supply Management |
SCM 493 | Honors Thesis |
Spring 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
SCM 493 | Honors Thesis |
Fall 2017 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
SCM 355 | Supply Management |
SCM 493 | Honors Thesis |
SCM 791 | Seminar |
Spring 2017 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
SCM 493 | Honors Thesis |
Fall 2016 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
SCM 355 | Supply Management |
SCM 493 | Honors Thesis |
Academy of Management; Decision Sciences Institute; Institute for Supply Management; Production and Operations Management Society
INVITED TALKS, LECURE SERIES (last three years)
Chair/Co-Chair
Graduated in 2017 Sangho Chae, Theorizing Supply-Chain Buy Versus Supply Chain-Make. Assistant Professor at Tilburg University in the Netherlands.
Graduated in 2016 Sophie Yang Yang, Reframing Buyer-Supplier Agency Problems Beyond the Dyad. Assistant Professor at University of Texas at El Paso
Graduated in 2011 Mei Li, Services Outsourcing: Implications of Bridge Transfer. Assistant Professor at Michigan State University
Graduated in 2011 Veronica Villena; Instituto de Empresa (IE), Madrid, Spain. Co-chair with Elena Revilla at IE. Two Faces of Collaborative Buyer-Supplier Relationships: Social Capital Versus Social Liability. Assistant professor at Penn State University
Graduated in 2010 Yusoon Kim, Expanding Buyer-Supplier Relationships: Adoption of Network Embeddedness Perspective. Associate Professor at Oregon State University. Graduated in 2006
Christian Rossetti, Supply Chain Disintermediation: An Agency Perspective on Buyer-Supplier Relationships under Incongruent Goals. Assistant Professor at Georgia Southern University.
Graduated in 2003 Zhaohui Wu, Supplier-Supplier Relationships and Their Effects on Supply Performance: An Empirical Study. Full Professor at Oregon State University.
2014-present Harold E. Fearon Chair in Purchasing, W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University Executive Director, CAPS Research, a joint venture between Arizona State University and Institute for Supply Management.
2009-present Co-Director, Complex Adaptive Supply Networks Research Accelerator (CASN-RA), W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University
2004-present Professor, Supply Chain Management Department, W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University
2013-2014 W. P. Carey Chair of Supply Chain Management, W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University
2010-2013 Bob Herberger Arizona Heritage Chair, W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University
2006-2010 John G. & Barbara A. Bebbling Professor in Business, W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University
2003-2008 Faculty Director, Global SCM Executive Education Program, W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University. For programs with LG Electronics, Samsung, Toyota, and Open Enrollment
2005-2008 Doctoral Program Coordinator, Supply Chain Management Department, W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University 2005-2006 Deans Council of 100 Distinguished Scholar, W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University
1998-2004 Associate Professor of Operations Management and Supply Chain Management, Department of Management, College of Business, Arizona State University
1993-1998 Assistant Professor of Management, College of Business Administration, Bowling Green State University
2016-Present
2015-2016
2009-2011, 2016
2012-2013
CAPS Research, Tempe, AZ.