Thomas Choi

About

Thomas Choi is a Regents Professor of Arizona State University and the AT&T Professor of Business at the W. P. Carey School of Business. His research focuses on supply chain management, particularly on the upstream side of supply chains where a buying company interfaces with multiple suppliers organized into various network structures. He has studied supply networks as complex adaptive systems and has contributed to understanding their design, management, and performance through empirical and simulation-based research. Choi has published extensively in leading academic journals and has co-authored practitioner books on supply management, including topics such as supply chain financing. He serves as co-director of the Complex Adaptive Supply Networks Research Accelerator (CASN-RA), an international research group, and has collaborated with numerous public and private organizations, including Honda, LG Electronics, Samsung, Toyota, Volvo, and the U.S. Department of Energy. Choi has held leadership roles such as the Harold E. Fearon Chair of Purchasing Management and was co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Operations Management. His work has been recognized as highly influential, with listings as a Highly Cited Researcher and rankings among top researchers in supply chain management. His educational background includes a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and a B.A. from the University of California-Berkeley.

Research topics

• Business
• Marketing
• Computer Science
• Sociology
• Industrial organization
• Finance
• Political Science
• Knowledge management
• Economics
• Environmental resource management

Selected publications

• Supplier–supplier coopetition and supply chain disruption: first-tier supplier resilience in the tetradic context

  International Journal of Operations & Production Management · 2020 · 102 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  Purpose The present study considers disruption in the buyer–supplier–supplier triad. This triad has a common second-tier supplier as the disruption source, which gives us the tetradic context. The goal is to advance the knowledge on how a first-tier supplier's resilience against lower-tier disruptive events can be developed through horizontally connecting with the other first-tier supplier and how the buyer can benefit from its first-tier suppliers' resilience capability. Design/methodology/appr…

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• Mitigating Mechanisms for the Dark Side of Collaborative Buyer–Supplier Relationships: A Mixed‐Method Study

  Journal of Supply Chain Management · 2020 · 84 citations

  Scholars have called attention to the dark side of collaborative buyer–supplier relationships (BSRs). For instance, the loss of objectivity, relational inertia, and redundant knowledge bases emerging from too much collaboration may result in declining performance. We extend this line of research by investigating the feasibility of potential mitigating mechanisms. Drawing from the literature on governance in inter‐organizational relationships and the interviews with practitioners that have experi…

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• Selecting Startups as Suppliers: A Typology of Supplier Selection Archetypes

  Journal of Supply Chain Management · 2020 · 76 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  Recent research highlights opportunities to study collaborations between established firms and startups from a buyer–supplier relationship perspective. However, before firms can leverage startups’ resources and capabilities in a buyer–supplier relationship, they need to identify, evaluate, and select suitable startups as their suppliers. As prior research has only studied how buying firms select established firms as suppliers, it is unclear which processes, tools, or organizational approach firm…

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• Building an alliance to map global supply networks

  Science · 2023-10-19 · 59 citations

  articleOpen access

  New firm-level data can inform policy-making.

  PublisherOA PDFDOI

• The supply chain financing ecosystem: Early responses during the COVID-19 crisis

  Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management · 2023 · 44 citations

  1st authorCorresponding
  PublisherOA PDFDOI

Recent grants

• Scalable Enterprise Systems: Control Versus Emergence

  NSF · $197k · 2000–2002

Frequent coauthors

• Manus Rungtusanatham

  University of Cincinnati

  17 shared

• Yusoon Kim

  Oregon State University

  14 shared

• Dale S. Rogers

  American Association of Kidney Patients

  11 shared

• Zhaohui Wu

  Oregon State University

  11 shared

• Ángel Rafael Martínez Lorente

  Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena

  10 shared

• Jeffrey Κ. Liker

  10 shared

• José Antonio Martínez García

  Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria La Fe

  9 shared

• Verónica H. Villena

  Arizona State University

  8 shared

Labs

• Thomas Choi LabPI

Education

• Ph.D.

  University of Michigan

  1992

• B.A.

  University of California-Berkeley

  1980

Awards & honors

• 2012 Distinguished Operations Management Scholar by the OM D…

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