Seongtae Kim

Seongtae Kim is an Assistant Professor of Logistics and Supply Chain Management at Aalto University School of Business. Prior to Aalto, starting August 2019, Seongtae 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. 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 research areas with a focus on implications for society/policy, practice, and research. His work has received several research awards such as the 2019 Best Paper Award for the Journal of Supply Chain Management.

Recent Publications

• Kim, S. & Wagner, S.M. (2020). Examining the Stock Price Effect of Corruption Risk in the Supply Chain, Decision Sciences, (in press).
• Kim, S., Ramkumar, M. & Subramanian, N. (2019). Logistics Service Provider Selection for Disaster Preparation: A Socio-Technical Systems Perspective, Annals of Operations Research, 283 (1-2), 1259-1282.
• Kim, S., Wagner, S.M. & Colicchia, C. (2019). The Impact of Supplier Sustainability Risk on Shareholder Value, Journal of Supply Chain Management, 55 (1), 71-87.
• Kim, S., Colicchia, C. & Menachof, D. (2018). Ethical Sourcing: An Analysis of the Literature and Implications for Future Research, Journal of Business Ethics, 152 (4), 1033-1052.