Kim, Seongtae, Prof. Dr.

Short Bio

Seongtae Kim was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Chair of Logistics Management at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland. He obtained his PhD (2013-2016) in Logistics and Supply Chain Management from the University of Hull’s Logistics Institute, UK. His doctoral thesis investigated the financial impact of corporate ethical sourcing, which was fully funded by a PhD Scholarship from the Business School, and was awarded a highly commended Outstanding Research Award by Emerald/EFMD. Seongtae is now an Assistant Professor of Supply Chain Management in the external page Department of Information and Service Management at Aalto University, Finland. 

His current research interests lie in the areas of supply chain sustainability/ethics, supply chain risk and disruptions, complex supply networks, and autonomous logistics and supply chains. He is particularly interested in the confluence of abovementioned areas with a focus on implications for society/policy, practice, and research. His research has appeared in Journal of Supply Chain Management, Decision Sciences, Journal of Business Ethics, International Journal Production Research, Annals of Operations Research, International Journal of Logistics Management, International Journal of Logistics: Research and Applications, and other peer-reviewed journals.

Recent Publications

• Kim, Seongtae/Park, Arim/Wagner, Stephan M. (2024): Owner-Operator Experience and Violations in Trucking: The Mixed Role of Perceived Justice, Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Vol. 188, August, 103642, doi: external page 10.1016/j.tre.2024.103642
• Tran, Toan/Kim, Seongtae/Son, Byung-Gak/Ramkumar, M. (2024): Paradoxical Association Between Lean Manufacturing, Sustainability Practices and Triple Bottom Line Performance, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, (in press), doi: external page 10.1109/TEM.2023.3290724
• Son, Byung-Gak/Ries, Jörg M./Subramanian, Nachiappan/Kim, Seongtae (2024): Bridging the Innovation Gap: Why Organizational Climate Matters For Leveraging Innovation From Supply Networks, Journal of Supply Chain Management, Vol. 60, No. 2, pp. 39-63, doi: external page 10.1111/jscm.12316
• Choudhury, Nishat/Kim, Seongtae/Ramkumar, M. (2024). Effects of supply chain disruptions due to COVID-19 on shareholder value, International Journal of Operations & Production Management, Vol. 42, No. 13, pp. 482-505, doi: external page 10.1108/IJOPM-03-2022-0173
• Kim, Seongtae and Chae, Sangho (2022). Shareholder value effects of ethical sourcing: Comparing reactive and proactive initiatives, Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 179, No. 3, September, pp. 887-906, doi: external page 10.1007/s10551-021-04841-0
  
• Kim, Seongtae/Schmidt, Christoph G./Foerstl, Kai/Wagner, Stephan M. (2022): Adoption of Green Supply Chain Management Practices in Multi-Tier Supply Chains: Examining the Differences Between Higher and Lower Tier Firms, International Journal of Production Research, Vol. 60, No. 21, pp. 6451-6468, doi: external page 10.1080/00207543.2021.1992032
• Kim, Seongtae/Chae, Sangho/Wagner, Stephan M./Miller, Jason (2022): Buyer Abusive Behavior and Supplier Welfare: An Empirical Study of Truck Owner-Operators, Journal of Supply Chain Management, Vol. 58, No. 4, October, pp. 90-111, doi: external page 10.1111/jscm.12285
• Kim, Seongtae and Chae, Sangho (2022): Shareholder Value Effects of Ethical Sourcing: Comparing Reactive and Proactive Initiatives, Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 179, No. 3, September, pp. 887-906, doi: external page 10.1007/s10551-021-04841-0
• Kim, Seongtae and Wagner, Stephan M. (2021): Examining the Stock Price Effect of Corruption Risk in the Supply Chain, Decision Sciences, Vol. 52, No. 4, August, pp. 833-​865, doi: external page 10.1111/deci.12487
• Kim, Seongtae/Ramkumar, M./Subramanian, Nachiappan (2019): Logistics Service Provider Selection for Disaster Preparation: A Socio-Technical Systems Perspective, Annals of Operations Research, Vol. 283, No. 1-2, December, pp. 1259-1282, doi: external page 10.1007/s10479-018-03129-3
• Kim, Seongtae/Wagner, Stephan M./Colicchia, Claudia (2019): The Impact of Supplier Sustainability Risk on Shareholder Value,  Journal of Supply Chain Management, Vol. 55, No. 1, January, pp. 71-87, doi: external page 10.1111/jscm.12188
• Kim, Seongtae/Colicchia, Claudia/Menachof, David (2018): Ethical Sourcing: An Analysis of the Literature and Implications for Future Research, Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 152, No. 4, November, pp. 1033-1052, doi: external page 10.1007/s10551-016-3266-8