Kevin Dooley

About

Dr. Kevin J. Dooley is a Professor in the NASPO Department of Supply Chain Management at the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University, where he also holds the title of Dean’s Council Distinguished Scholar. He serves as Co-Director of the Complex Adaptive Supply Networks Research Accelerator and as a Senior Global Futures Scientist in the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory. His research and leadership have been widely recognized through awards such as the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Academy of Management, the W. P. Carey School of Business Dean’s Distinguished Career Research Award, and the American Society for Quality’s Hutchens Medal. As Chief Scientist of The Sustainability Consortium, Dr. Dooley collaborated with industry stakeholders to promote sustainability in consumer products, leading to the development of the Walmart Sustainability Index and earning the ASU President’s Award for Sustainability in 2024. His scholarly work includes authoring over 100 research articles and providing training and consulting to more than 200 companies across areas including sustainability, supply chain management, quality, complexity science, text analysis, and innovation. He earned his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Illinois and has been actively involved in research activities that focus on complex systems, supply chain resilience, and sustainability, contributing significantly to both academic knowledge and practical…

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Business
• Marketing
• Sociology
• Industrial organization
• Psychology
• Risk analysis (engineering)
• Economics
• Medicine
• Economic system

Selected publications

• Whose resilience matters? Addressing issues of scale in supply chain resilience

  Journal of Business Logistics · 2021 · 206 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  Abstract Many existing studies and models of supply chain resilience conceptualize resilience from the perspective of an equilibrium‐seeking focal firm or industry. The term “supply chain resilience” is often discussed as a dimension of firm resilience, as opposed to a standalone concept. In this context, resilience is defined according to how well a firm or industry can respond to a disruption while maintaining existing structures and processes and then “bounce back” to a pre‐disruption equilib…

  DOI

• A Typology of Supply Network Resilience Strategies: Complex Collaborations in a Complex World

  Journal of Supply Chain Management · 2020 · 205 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  The COVID‐19 pandemic has illustrated the broad and diverse challenges that supply networks face in preparing for and adapting to significant supply and demand disruptions. While much has been written about resilience strategies, few consider resiliency from a network level perspective. In this essay, we explain a typology of resiliency strategies linked to different types of collaboration within and between supply networks. Existing literature focuses on two of these types, micro‐ and macro‐lev…

  DOI

• From the Editors: Introduction to Managing Supply Chains Beyond Covid‐19 ‐ Preparing for the Next Global Mega‐Disruption

  Journal of Supply Chain Management · 2020 · 89 citations

  The COVID‐19 pandemic has forced supply chain management researchers and practitioners to question many of our firmly held assumptions about the discipline. Perhaps the most interesting question is, where does supply chain management go from here? This issue of the Journal of Supply Chain Management begins to answer that question via a combination of invited essays and a regular submission. We consider this issue as only a starting point, and we hope to see its impact on future research on mega‐…

  DOI

• Unchaining supply chains: Transformative leaps toward regenerating social–ecological systems

  Journal of Supply Chain Management · 2023-12-27 · 78 citations

  articleOpen access

  Abstract The worsening climate, biodiversity, and inequity crises have existential implications. To help resolve these crises, supply chains must move beyond a minimal harm approach. Instead, supply chains must make positive contributions to and harmoniously integrate with the living systems around them. Despite agreement on this urgent need, supply chain management research still lacks a shared roadmap for establishing economically sustainable supply chains that actively regenerate social–ecolo…

  PublisherOA PDFDOI

• Advancing OSCM scientific knowledge by replicating empirical findings: Step‐by‐step procedure and illustration for transformative replication endeavors

  Decision Sciences · 2024-02-19 · 5 citations

  article

  Abstract Replication endeavors contribute to the accumulation of scientific evidence about previously reported findings and are crucial for scientific progress. Replication studies are, however, often discouraged and rarely published in the operations and supply chain management (OSCM) discipline. In this article, we offer a framework for replications consisting of two complementary tables. This framework recognizes two types of replications already defined in the literature (i.e., The Exact (EX…

  PublisherDOI

Recent grants

• Supply Network Design and Product Environmental Performance

  NSF · $316k · 2010–2012

Frequent coauthors

• Andrew H. Van de Ven

  17 shared

• Manus Rungtusanatham

  University of Cincinnati

  17 shared

• Michael E. Holmes

  Level Set Systems (United States)

  16 shared

• Marshall Scott Poole

  14 shared

• Sriram Sathyanarayanan

  12 shared

• Su Chul Jang

  12 shared

• Kyriakos D. Economides

  12 shared

• Nuruddeen D. Lewis

  12 shared

Education

• Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering

  University of Illinois

  1987

• M.S., Industrial Engineering

  University of Illinois

  1984

• B.S., Industrial Engineering

  University of Illinois

  1982

Awards & honors

• Bright Idea Award, 2025, Stillman School of Business at Seto…
• ASU President’s Award for Sustainability, 2024
• W. P. Carey Dean’s Distinguished Career Research Award, 2024
• Wiley Top Cited Article 2023, Gualandris, J., Branzei, O., W…
• Distinguished Scholar Award, 2022, Academy of Management, Op…

Similar researchers at Arizona State University

• Thomas Choih-59
• Hendrik Bessembinderh-48
• Amy Ostromh-36