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John Ni is an Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management in the Department of Management at the Farmer School of Business, Miami University, where he has served since 2016, advancing from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor following tenure and promotion granted in 2022. He holds a Ph.D. in Operations Management and Decision Sciences from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University (2012), an M.S. in Engineering Management from the University of Alberta (2003), and a B.Eng. in Mechanical Engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (1993). Prior to Miami University, Ni was an Assistant Professor at the University of Rhode Island College of Business Administration from 2012 to 2016 and a Research Associate and Associate Instructor at Indiana University Kelley School of Business from 2007 to 2012. Before returning to academia, he accumulated extensive industrial experience in quality system certification and supplier assessment.
Ni's primary research interests encompass supply chain and operations management, quality management, supply chain disruptions and risk management, product recalls and safety, buyer-supplier relationships, and supplier opportunism. His scholarship has appeared in premier outlets including Journal of Supply Chain Management, Decision Sciences, IISE Transactions, International Journal of Operations & Production Management, and European Journal of Operational Research. Key publications include "Learning from Failure: The Implications of Product Recalls for Firm Innovation" (Journal of Supply Chain Management, 2024; Harold E. Fearon Best Paper Award Runner-up), "Discovery-to-Recall in the Automotive Industry: A Problem-Solving Perspective on Investigation of Quality Failures" (Journal of Supply Chain Management, 2018; Harold E. Fearon Best Paper Award Runner-up), "Examining Network Entry Decisions in Healthcare" (Decision Sciences, 2024), "Product Positioning and Pricing Decisions in a Two-Attribute Disruptive New Market" (IISE Transactions, 2020), and "Why Be First if It Doesn’t Pay? The Case of Early Adopters of C-TPAT Supply Chain Security Certification" (International Journal of Operations & Production Management, 2016). Ni has earned the Farmer School of Business Summer Research Grant (2020), Outstanding New Teacher Award from URI College of Business (2014, sole recipient), Doctoral Research Award from Indiana University's Center for International Business Education & Research (2010), and Graduate Student Scholarship from Alberta Learning (2002). He serves as Associate Editor for Journal of Supply Chain Management, on editorial review boards for Journal of Operations Management, European Journal of Operational Research, and others, and as a founding member of Miami University's International Faculty and Staff Association.
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