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Business and Management

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43
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1961 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

W. C. Benton is affiliated with The Ohio State University in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the broad field of Business, Management and Accounting, with significant contributions to subfields including Management Information Systems, Strategy and Management, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Management of Technology and Innovation, and Marketing.

Their work has focused on various key topics such as Quality and Supply Management, Outsourcing and Supply Chain Management, Supply Chain Resilience and Risk Management, Product Development and Customization, Innovation and Knowledge Management, Customer Service Quality and Loyalty, and Manufacturing Process and Optimization.

W. C. Benton's recent papers include:

  • The influence of supplier development programs on supplier performance (2020), published in International Journal of Production Economics
  • Perceived supplier opportunism in outsourcing relationships in emerging economies (2020), published in Journal of Operations Management
  • The moderating influence of supplier culture on the relationship between buyer power and supplier shirking (2022), published in Journal of Operations Management
  • The influence of home shopping television network impulse buying on product shortages (2023), published in Journal of Operations Management
  • Technical Note: Recommendations for Assessing Unit Nonresponse Bias in Dyadic Focused Empirical Supply Chain Management Research (2020), published in Decision Sciences

The frequent co-authors collaborating with W. C. Benton include Toyin Clottey, Keith Skowronski, Sean Handley, Carol Prahinski, and Ying Fan.

They have published regularly in several academic venues, notably the Journal of Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, International Journal of Production Economics, Decision Sciences, and IISE Transactions.

In recognition of their contributions to science, W. C. Benton has received the distinction of Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), awarded in 1961.

Best Publications

  • Vendor selection criteria and methods

    Charles A. Weber;John R. Current;W.C. Benton

  • The influence of power driven buyer/seller relationships on supply chain satisfaction

    W.C. Benton;Michael J. Maloni

  • Supply chain practice and information sharing

    Honggeng Zhou;W.C. Benton

  • Power Influences in the Supply Chain

    Michael J. Maloni;W.C. Benton

  • Supplier evaluations: communication strategies to improve supplier performance

    Carol Prahinski;W.C Benton

  • Supply chain partnerships: Opportunities for operations research

    Michael J. Maloni;W.C. Benton

  • Supply-Chain Management for Recoverable Manufacturing Systems

    V. Daniel R. Guide;Vaidyanathan Jayaraman;Rajesh Srivastava;W. C. Benton

  • The influence of exchange hazards and power on opportunism in outsourcing relationships

    Sean M. Handley;W.C. Benton

  • Supplier Selection and Order Quantity Allocation: A Comprehensive Model

    Vaidyanathan Jayaraman;Rajesh Srivastava;W. C. Benton

  • A classification of literature on determining the lot size under quantity discounts

    W.C. Benton;Seungwook Park

  • Unlocking the business outsourcing process model

    Sean M. Handley;W.C. Benton

  • The influence of task- and location-specific complexity on the control and coordination costs in global outsourcing relationships

    Sean M. Handley;W.C. Benton

  • Modelling Intra-City Time-Dependent Travel Speeds for Vehicle Scheduling Problems

    Arthur V. Hill;W. C. Benton

  • Purchasing and supply chain management

    W. C. Benton

  • Research opportunities in purchasing and supply management

    Tobias Schoenherr;Sachin B. Modi;W.C. Benton;Craig R. Carter

  • Manufacturing planning and control: The evolution of MRP and JIT integration

    W.C. Benton;Hojung Shin

  • The impact of strategic operations management decisions on community hospital performance

    Ling X. Li;W.C. Benton;G.Keong Leong

  • A systematic assessment of supplier selection literature – State-of-the-art and future scope

    Anton Wetzstein;Evi Hartmann;W.C. Benton;Nils-Ole Hohenstein

  • Quantity discount decisions under conditions of multiple items, multiple suppliers and resource limitations

    W. C. Benton

  • Performance measurement criteria in health care organizations: Review and future research directions

    L.X. Li;W.C. Benton

Frequent Co-Authors

Ling Li
Ling Li Old Dominion University
Vaidyanathan Jayaraman
Vaidyanathan Jayaraman S P Jain School of Global Management
Michael J. Maloni
Michael J. Maloni Kennesaw State University
G. Keong Leong
G. Keong Leong California State University, Dominguez Hills
Larry P. Ritzman
Larry P. Ritzman Boston College
Paul D. Larson
Paul D. Larson University of Manitoba
Evi Hartmann
Evi Hartmann University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Tobias Schoenherr
Tobias Schoenherr Michigan State University
Thomas Y. Choi
Thomas Y. Choi Arizona State University
Ram Narasimhan
Ram Narasimhan Michigan State University

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