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58
Citations
23810
World Ranking
600
National Ranking
265

Overview

Craig R. Carter is affiliated with Arizona State University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on fields within Business, Management, and Accounting, with notable contributions to Strategy and Management, Management Information Systems, Marketing, Sociology and Political Science, and Economics and Econometrics.

Their scholarly work engages particularly with topics such as Environmental Sustainability in Business, Sustainable Supply Chain Management, Outsourcing and Supply Chain Management, Supply Chain Resilience and Risk Management, Qualitative Comparative Analysis Research, Supply Chain and Inventory Management, and Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies.

The scientist has published recent papers including the following:

  • Expect the unexpected: toward a theory of the unintended consequences of sustainable supply chain management, 2020, International Journal of Operations & Production Management
  • On making experimental design choices: Discussions on the use and challenges of demand effects, incentives, deception, samples, and vignettes, 2020, Journal of Operations Management
  • Spillover effects of information leakages in buyer-supplier-supplier triads, 2020, Journal of Operations Management
  • Configurational approaches to theory development in supply chain management: Leveraging underexplored opportunities, 2021, Journal of Supply Chain Management
  • Supply chain leakage of greenhouse gas emissions and supplier innovation, 2022, Production and Operations Management

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

  • Lutz Kaufmann (11 joint publications)
  • Stephanie Eckerd (4 joint publications)
  • Thomas Kull (4 joint publications)
  • Elliot Bendoly (3 joint publications)
  • David J. Ketchen (3 joint publications)

Their work is often published in journals such as:

  • Journal of Operations Management (4 publications)
  • Journal of Supply Chain Management (4 publications)
  • Academy of Management Proceedings (4 publications)
  • Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management (3 publications)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal (2 publications)

Best Publications

  • A framework of sustainable supply chain management: moving toward new theory

    Craig R. Carter;Dale S. Rogers

  • Sustainable supply chain management: Evolution and future directions

    Craig R. Carter;P. Liane Easton

  • REVERSE LOGISTICS: A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE AND FRAMEWORK FOR FUTURE INVESTIGATION

    Craig R Carter;Lisa M Ellram

  • The role of purchasing in corporate social responsibility : a structural equation analysis

    Craig R. Carter;Marianne M. Jennings

  • Environmental purchasing and firm performance: an empirical investigation

    Craig R Carter;Rahul Kale;Curtis M Grimm

  • FOOD FOR THOUGHT: SOCIAL VERSUS ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY PRACTICES AND PERFORMANCE OUTCOMES

    Madeleine E. Pullman;Michael J. Maloni;Craig R. Carter

  • LOGISTICS SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: AN INTEGRATIVE FRAMEWORK

    Craig R. Carter;Marianne M. Jennings

  • Social responsibility and supply chain relationships

    Craig R Carter;Marianne M Jennings

  • Interorganizational determinants of environmental purchasing: Initial evidence from the consumer products industries

    Craig R. Carter;Joseph R. Carter

  • Toward the Theory of the Supply Chain

    Craig R. Carter;Dale S. Rogers;Thomas Y. Choi

  • Purchasing's Role in Environmental Management: Cross-Functional Development of Grounded Theory

    Craig R. Carter;Martin Dresner

  • Purchasing social responsibility and firm performance: The key mediating roles of organizational learning and supplier performance

    Craig R. Carter

  • Ethical issues in international buyer-supplier relationships: a dyadic examination

    Craig R. Carter

  • Environmental Purchasing: Benchmarking Our German Counterparts

    Craig R. Carter;Lisa M. Ellram;Kathryn J. Ready

  • Social Sustainability in Selecting Emerging Economy Suppliers

    Matthias Ehrgott;Felix Reimann;Lutz Kaufmann;Craig R. Carter

  • THE USE OF SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS IN LOGISTICS RESEARCH

    Craig R. Carter;Lisa M. Ellram;Wendy Tate

  • JIT purchasing and performance: an exploratory analysis of buyer and supplier perspectives

    Yan Dong;Craig R Carter;Martin E Dresner

  • Opportunities for Research in Third-Party Logistics

    Michael J. Maloni;Craig R. Carter

  • Behavioral supply management: a taxonomy of judgment and decision‐making biases

    Craig R. Carter;Lutz Kaufmann;Alex Michel

  • Local stakeholders and local legitimacy: MNEs' social strategies in emerging economies

    Felix Reimann;Matthias Ehrgott;Lutz Kaufmann;Craig R. Carter

  • Reverse auctions--grounded theory from the buyer and supplier perspective

    Craig R Carter;Lutz Kaufmann;Stewart Beall;Phillip L Carter

Frequent Co-Authors

Lutz Kaufmann
Lutz Kaufmann WHU-Otto Beisheim School of Management
Lisa M. Ellram
Lisa M. Ellram Miami University
Gm. Shafiullah
Gm. Shafiullah Murdoch University
Wendy L. Tate
Wendy L. Tate University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Thomas Y. Choi
Thomas Y. Choi Arizona State University
Tania Urmee
Tania Urmee Murdoch University
Tobias Schoenherr
Tobias Schoenherr Michigan State University
Xiande Zhao
Xiande Zhao China Europe International Business School
W. C. Benton
W. C. Benton The Ohio State University

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