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37
Citations
10027
World Ranking
1922
National Ranking
786

Overview

Christopher W. Craighead is affiliated with the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Business, Management and Accounting, with a focus on Strategy and Management, Management Information Systems, Business and International Management, Economics and Econometrics, and Food Science.

Their work covers several topics in supply chain management, including Supply Chain Resilience and Risk Management, Supply Chain and Inventory Management, Outsourcing and Supply Chain Management, Sustainable Supply Chain Management, Innovation and Socioeconomic Development, Quality and Supply Management, and Innovation and Knowledge Management.

Craighead has contributed to notable publication venues such as:

  • Journal of Business Logistics
  • Journal of Supply Chain Management
  • Journal of Operations Management
  • Decision Sciences
  • Journal of Management

Frequent co-authors include:

  • David J. Ketchen
  • Li Cheng
  • Qiong Wang
  • Juan Li
  • Brian L. Connelly

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Christopher W. Craighead include:

  • Pandemics and Supply Chain Management Research: Toward a Theoretical Toolbox, 2020, Decision Sciences
  • Research at the Intersection of Entrepreneurship, Supply Chain Management, and Strategic Management: Opportunities Highlighted by COVID-19, 2020, Journal of Management
  • Toward A Theory Of Supply Chain Entrepreneurial Embeddedness In Disrupted And Normal States, 2020, Journal of Supply Chain Management
  • Strategic Sourcing Under Severe Disruption Risk: Learning Failures and Under-Diversification Bias, 2020, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
  • Food for thought: Recalls and outcomes, 2021, Journal of Business Logistics

Best Publications

  • The severity of supply chain disruptions: Design characteristics and mitigation capabilities

    Christopher W. Craighead;Jennifer Blackhurst;M. Johnny Rungtusanatham;Robert B. Handfield

  • Service recovery: a framework and empirical investigation

    Janis L Miller;Christopher W Craighead;Kirk R Karwan

  • An Empirically Derived Framework of Global Supply Resiliency

    Jennifer Blackhurst;Kaitlin S. Dunn;Christopher W. Craighead

  • An empirically derived agenda of critical research issues for managing supply-chain disruptions

    J. Blackhurst;C. W. Craighead;D. Elkins;R. B. Handfield

  • Addressing Common Method Variance: Guidelines for Survey Research on Information Technology, Operations, and Supply Chain Management

    Christopher W. Craighead;David J. Ketchen;K. S. Dunn;G. G. Hult

  • Pandemics and Supply Chain Management Research: Toward a Theoretical Toolbox*

    Christopher W. Craighead;David J. Ketchen;Jessica L. Darby

  • The effects of innovation–cost strategy, knowledge, and action in the supply chain on firm performance

    Christopher W. Craighead;G. Tomas M. Hult;David J. Ketchen

  • Risk uncertainty and supply chain decisions: A real options perspective

    G. Tomas M. Hult;Christopher W. Craighead;David J. Ketchen

  • Research at the Intersection of Entrepreneurship, Supply Chain Management, and Strategic Management: Opportunities Highlighted by COVID-19

    David J. Ketchen;Christopher W. Craighead

  • The Effects of Severity of Failure and Customer Loyalty on Service Recovery Strategies

    Christopher W. Craighead;Kirk R. Karwan;Janis L. Miller

  • The interplay of drivers and deterrents of opportunism in buyer–supplier relationships

    Qiong Wang;Julie Juan Li;William T. Ross;Christopher W. Craighead

  • Postponement: an evolving supply chain concept

    Christopher A. Boone;Christopher W. Craighead;Joe B. Hanna

  • Towards a “theoretical toolbox” for strategic sourcing

    Christopher L. Shook;Garry L. Adams;David J. Ketchen;Christopher W. Craighead

  • Operations management research: evolution and alternative future paths

    Christopher W. Craighead;Jack Meredith

  • On the Same Page? How Asymmetric Buyer–Supplier Relationships Affect Opportunism and Performance

    Verónica H. Villena;Christopher W. Craighead

  • Resource gaps and resource orchestration shortfalls in supply chain management: : the case of product recalls

    David J. Ketchen;Kaitlin D. Wowak;Christopher W. Craighead

  • Justice served: Mitigating damaged trust stemming from supply chain disruptions

    Qiong Wang;Christopher W. Craighead;Julie Juan Li

  • Supply Chain Sourcing in Remanufacturing Operations: An Empirical Investigation of Remake Versus Buy

    Pinar Martin;V. Daniel R. Guide;Christopher W. Craighead

  • From Supply Chains to Supply Ecosystems: Implications for Strategic Sourcing Research and Practice

    David J. Ketchen;T. Russell Crook;Christopher W. Craighead

  • “Goldilocks” Theorizing in Supply Chain Research: Balancing Scientific and Practical Utility via Middle-Range Theory

    Christopher W. Craighead;David J. Ketchen;Li Cheng

  • Research approaches in logistics : trends and alternative future directions

    Christopher W. Craighead;Joe B. Hanna;Brian J. Gibson;Jack R. Meredith

Frequent Co-Authors

David J. Ketchen
David J. Ketchen Auburn University
Jennifer Blackhurst
Jennifer Blackhurst Auburn University
Robert B. Handfield
Robert B. Handfield North Carolina State University
G. Tomas M. Hult
G. Tomas M. Hult Michigan State University
Jack R. Meredith
Jack R. Meredith Wake Forest University
Terry Anthony Byrd
Terry Anthony Byrd Auburn University
M. Ronald Buckley
M. Ronald Buckley University of Oklahoma
Chad W. Autry
Chad W. Autry University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Teresa Wu
Teresa Wu Arizona State University
V. Daniel R. Guide
V. Daniel R. Guide Pennsylvania State University

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