WSU business school professor named "best reviewer" for top supply chain journal
Tingting Yan, assistant professor of global supply chain management at Wayne State University, was awarded the 2014 Best Reviewer Award from the Journal of Supply Chain Management. Yan will receive her award in August at the Academy of Management’s Professional Development Workshop, "Journal of Supply Chain Management Best Paper Session: Crafting a High Quality Research Paper," in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Garnering national attention in the field of global supply chain management, Yan is enjoying a rapid career trajectory. Since joining the faculty at the Wayne State University School of Business after receiving her Ph.D. from Arizona State University in 2011, Yan has been published in prestigious journals, delivered insightful presentations to august groups of academics, and begun to receive recognition for her work.
Accolades for a young scholar
Earlier this year, Yan was nominated for the 2015 Past Chairs Emerging Scholars Award, by the Technology and Innovation Management (TIM) Division of the Academy of Management. The national award’s goal is to recognize an emerging scholar with a solid publication record who shows great promise toward becoming influential within the TIM domain.
To date, she’s had six articles published in top tier journals and actively serves as an editorial board or ad hoc reviewer at a half dozen more. In addition, she’s presented at three national conferences in the past two years. Notably, in 2013, she was selected as "Best Reviewer" for the Journal of Operations Management. Closer to home, she received the 2014 Excellence in Research Award from the WSU School of Business.
Supply chain in the global economy
"I was attracted to this career by the unlimited opportunities to create and distribute knowledge that helps companies better compete in a globalized economy by developing world-class supply chains," said Yan. "My focus over the next three to five years is how supply networks drive innovation firms could better innovate by better utilizing resources in their customer and supplier networks. It’s from the perspective of the buying firma focal firm, which could be either an auto OEM or a tier-3 supplier and how they can stimulate better innovation within the manager supplier network."
Her efforts at bringing a fresh and dynamic perspective to WSU have been appreciated by her colleagues.
"Tingting has been a tremendous addition to our department," said John Taylor, chair of the Department of Marketing and Supply Chain Management. "The scope, depth and quality of her research in the field of supply chain management is generally associated with an academic far more established. That she has been recognized so early in her career is only further validation of her merit as an emerging scholar."
