Time: Wednesday, April 29, 2026, 10:00–11:30 a.m.

Venue: Guoshun Campus, Siyuan Faculty Building, Room 524

Topic: Framework for Doing Empirical Research in Supply Chain Management

Speaker: Professor Vinod Singhal, Georgia Institute of Technology

Moderator: Professor Xiaole Wu

Abstract: In this talk, I will present a framework for conducting empirical research in supply chain management. I will discuss how to select impactful topics, define research boundaries, and choose appropriate data sources and methodological approaches. I will highlight several promising areas for future inquiry and illustrate the framework with a recent empirical study from my own work in supply chain management.

Bio:

Vinod Singhal is the Charles W. Brady Chair Professor of Operations Management at the Scheller College of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA. He received his PhD from the University of Rochester, Rochester, USA. Before joining Georgia Tech, he worked as a Senior Research Scientist at General Motors Research Labs.

His research has focused on the impact of operating decisions on accounting-based and stock market-based performance measures. His work has been supported by grants from the U.S. Department of Labor, the National Science Foundation, the American Society of Quality, and the Sloan Foundation. He has published extensively in academic journals and has delivered more than 200 presentations at different universities. His research has also gained wide recognition in the practitioner community through numerous articles in industry-oriented journals and frequent invited keynote presentations at practitioner conferences. His work has been cited more than 200 times in practitioner publications such as BusinessWeek, The Economist, Fortune, SmartMoney, CFO Europe, Financial Times, Investor's Business Daily, and The Daily Telegraph. In academic publications, his research has been cited nearly 15,000 times. His paper, "An empirical analysis of the effect of supply chain disruptions on long-run stock price performance and equity risk of the firm," was voted by POMS members in 2024 as one of the top ten papers published in Production and Operations Management over the past 30 years.

Professor Singhal is a Departmental Editor of Production and Operations Management. He has also served as Associate Editor of Management Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, and Journal of Operations Management. He is a Fellow of the Production and Operations Management Society. In addition, he has served on the Academic Advisory Board of the European School of Management and Technology in Germany.

His teaching interests include operations strategy and supply chain management. He has also contributed to international teaching by offering research workshops in countries including Australia, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.