Dr. Rob Handfield receives Emerald Citation of Excellence Award
A research article by Dr. Robert Handfield, University Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain Management at the NC State University Poole College of Management, and colleagues at the University of Tennessee, Oxford University, and Manchester University received the 2013 Emerald Citation of Excellence award.
The article is titled, "Knowledge sharing in interorganizational product development teams: the effect of formal and informal socialization mechanisms," published in the Journal of Production Innovation Management in 2009.
Results this study suggest that informal socialization mechanisms, such as communication guidelines and social events, play an important role in facilitating interorganizational knowledge sharing, whereas formal socialization mechanisms, such as cross-functional teams, and matrix reporting structures, act indirectly through informal socialization to influence knowledge sharing. This is particularly important in dealing with supplier involvement in new product development initiatives. The theoretical model was tested based on a survey of 113 UK companies.
The Emerald Citation Award program, now in its 17th year, recognizes the 50 most outstanding articles published by the top 300 management journals in the world, including Harvard Business Review, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Finance, Strategic Management Journal, MIT Sloan Management Review, and McKinsey Quarterly. With 15,000 article abstracts published in these journals annually, receiving a Citation of Excellence is an extraordinary achievement and represents one of the highest accolades that an author can achieve. Authors of the winning articles receive an official certificate and logo to display on their work.
A full list of the 2013 winners and previous winners at the Emerald site.
Handfield had also received an Emerald Citation Award in 2011 for a paper he co-authored on the topic, “The severity of supply chain disruptions: design characteristics and mitigation capabilities.
