FACULTY RESEARCH IMPACTS
Visionary Supply Chain Paper Recognized by Decision Sciences Journal M. Johnny Rungtusanatham
Schulich Professor, M. Johnny Rungtusanatham, co-authored “Historical Supplier Performance and Strategic Relationship Dissolution: Unintentional but Serious Supplier Error as a Moderator” with Yi-Su Chen from the University of Michigan-Dearborn and Susan Meyer Goldstein from the University of Minnesota. The paper was recognized as a 2019 Best Paper Finalist from Decision Sciences.
Decision Sciences, the flagship journal of the Decision Sciences Institute, a global society of business school academics creating and disseminating knowledge to improve managerial decisions, is considered an A* journal on the ABDC Journal Quality List.
Decision Sciences Journal is a premier business research publication with international visibility and impact which addresses contemporary business problems primarily focused on operations, supply chain and information systems and simultaneously provide novel managerial and/or theoretical insights.
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Rungtusanatham is a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Supply Chain Management, Professor of Operations Management and Information Systems, and Fellow of the Decision Sciences Institute. He is considered to be one of the top 50 authors of research in operations and supply chain management, according to a 2021 Decision Sciences article titled, “OM Research: Leading Authors and Institutions” (Volume 52, Issue 1, pp. 8-75) as well as a 2019 article appearing in Supply Chain Management: An International Journal titled, “SCM Research Leadership: The Ranked Agents and Their Networks” (Volume 24, Issue 6, pp. 821-854). A 2015 article published in the International Journal of Production Research titled, “Twenty-Six Years of Operations Management Research (1985 – 2010): Authorship Patterns and Research Constituents in Eleven Top Rated Journals” (Volume 53,
Issue 20, pp. 6161-6197), identifies Rungtusanatham in a listing of Top 100 individual researchers with the greatest overall contribution to the field of Operations Management. According to Rungtusanatham, conventional wisdom based on research from various business disciplines urges sourcing firms to develop, foster, and maintain strong relationships with strategic suppliers. However, strategic buyer-supplier relationships, not unlike marriages, do fail. For critical-component sourcing situations, it is thus important to understand how and why sourcing firm versus supplying firm decisions and actions may weaken strategic relationship ties unintentionally and put these ties on a path to being prematurely broken. “This article is one publication from my ongoing research into managing for supply disruptions. It focuses squarely on decisions that sourcing firms should not take because these decisions may trigger interruptions in the flow of physical supply,” says Rungtusanatham. The research itself is a follow-up to the 2013 article Rungtusanatham published in the Journal of Operations Management,
