2026 Wendy L. Tate: Business and Management Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Business and Management	40	1647	1542	690	631	109	9679

Overview

Wendy L. Tate is affiliated with the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on business, management, and accounting, with significant contributions in the fields of strategy and management, management information systems, and business and international management. Additional areas of study include marketing and organizational behavior and human resource management.

The scientist's research topics cover a broad spectrum within supply chain management and related areas. Key themes include:

Sustainable Supply Chain Management
Quality and Supply Management
Supply Chain Resilience and Risk Management
Innovation and Socioeconomic Development
Outsourcing and Supply Chain Management
Innovation and Knowledge Management
Public Procurement and Policy

Wendy L. Tate has been published frequently in a number of academic venues, including:

Academy of Management Proceedings (7 publications)
Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management (5 publications)
Journal of Supply Chain Management (5 publications)
Journal of Business Logistics (3 publications)
International Journal of Operations & Production Management (2 publications)

Recent scholarly papers include the following works:

"Purchasing and supply management (PSM) contribution to supply-side resilience," published in 2020 in the International Journal of Production Economics
"Future business and the role of purchasing and supply management: Opportunities for 'business-not-as-usual' PSM research," published in 2022 in the Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management
"Going beyond supplier diversity to economic Inclusion: Where are we now and where do we go from here?" published in 2022 in the Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management
"A guided tour through the qualitative research city," published in 2024 in the Journal of Supply Chain Management
"A legitimacy theory perspective on Scope 3 freight transportation emissions," published in 2022 in the Journal of Business Logistics

Collaborations have been an important aspect of their research activity. Frequent co-authors include:

Lydia Bals
Lisa M. Ellram
Feigao Huang
Eugenia Rosca
Tingting Yan

Best Publications

Understanding and Managing the Services Supply Chain

Lisa M. Ellram;Wendy L. Tate;Corey Billington

1034
Citations
CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY REPORTS: A THEMATIC ANALYSIS RELATED TO SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

Wendy L. Tate;Lisa M. Ellram;Jon F. Kirchoff

958
Citations
Green, lean, and global supply chains

Diane Mollenkopf;Hannah Stolze;Wendy L. Tate;Monique Ueltschy

802
Citations
Offshore outsourcing of professional services: A transaction cost economics perspective

Lisa M. Ellram;Wendy L. Tate;Corey Billington

696
Citations
Offshoring and Reshoring: An Update on the Manufacturing Location Decision

Lisa M. Ellram;Wendy L. Tate;Kenneth J. Petersen

663
Citations
Global competitive conditions driving the manufacturing location decision

Wendy L. Tate;Lisa M. Ellram;Tobias Schoenherr;Kenneth J. Petersen

366
Citations
Achieving Shared Triple Bottom Line (TBL) Value Creation: Toward a Social Resource-Based View (SRBV) of the Firm

Wendy L. Tate;Lydia Bals;Lydia Bals

356
Citations
THE USE OF SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS IN LOGISTICS RESEARCH

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

298
Citations
Services Supply Management: The Next Frontier for Improved Organizational Performance

Lisa M. Ellram;Wendy L. Tate;Corey Billington

292
Citations
The impact of strategic organizational orientations on green supply chain management and firm performance

Jon F Kirchoff;Wendy L Tate;Diane A Mollenkopf

247
Citations
Transaction Cost and Institutional Drivers of Supplier Adoption of Environmental Practices

Wendy L. Tate;Kevin J. Dooley;Lisa M. Ellram

228
Citations
Offshore outsourcing of services: An evolutionary perspective

Wendy L. Tate;Lisa M. Ellram;Lydia Bals;Evi Hartmann

219
Citations
An agency theory perspective on the purchase of marketing services

Wendy L. Tate;Lisa M. Ellram;Lydia Bals;Lydia Bals;Evi Hartmann

216
Citations
A Note on the Use of Survey Research Firms to Enable Empirical Data Collection

Tobias Schoenherr;Lisa M. Ellram;Wendy L. Tate

212
Citations
Environmental purchasing and supplier management (EPSM): Theory and practice

Wendy L. Tate;Lisa M. Ellram;Kevin J. Dooley

209
Citations
Offshoring and reshoring: U.S. insights and research challenges

Wendy L. Tate

206
Citations
Product‐process‐supply chain: an integrative approach to three‐dimensional concurrent engineering

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

179
Citations
Factor‐Market Rivalry and Competition for Supply Chain Resources

Lisa M. Ellram;Wendy L. Tate;Edward G. Feitzinger

135
Citations
Outsourcing/Offshoring Insights: Going Beyond Reshoring to Rightshoring

Wendy L. Tate;Lydia Bals

131
Citations
Sustainable Supply Chain Design in Social Businesses: Advancing the Theory of Supply Chain

Lydia Bals;Lydia Bals;Wendy L. Tate

129
Citations
The use of secondary data in purchasing and supply management (P/SM) research

Lisa M. Ellram;Wendy L. Tate

120
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Lisa M. Ellram Miami University

Craig R. Carter Arizona State University

Kevin J. Dooley Arizona State University

Tobias Schoenherr Michigan State University

Finn Wynstra Erasmus University Rotterdam

George A. Zsidisin University of Missouri–St. Louis

Michael Bourlakis Cranfield University

Mark Pagell University College Dublin

Evi Hartmann University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

Christine Harland Polytechnic University of Milan

External Links

Personal website of Wendy L. Tate Google Scholar page

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