Veronica Villena
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WP Carey Business Building Tempe, AZ 85281
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Mail code: 4706Campus: Tempe
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Veronica Villena's research focuses on how companies engage their global supplier network to achieve economic, environmental and social outcomes. She has worked with leading sustainability companies in the automotive, electronics, consumer product, pharmaceutical, fashion and food sectors on how they can diffuse their environmental and labor practices to their first-, second- and third-tier suppliers. Her research explores the challenges companies face in cascading their environmental and labor requirements to these upstream suppliers while informing the reasons why suppliers do not fulfill such requirements. She has done extensive grounded research in several emerging/developing countries and worked with industry organizations and NGOs to better understand the environmental and labor conditions in supplier factories.
Among her list of honors, she has been awarded the Responsible Research Award from the RRBM Network (2022), the Chan Hahn Best Paper Award of the Academy of Management- OSCM division (2020 and 2016), the Jack Meredith Best Paper award from the Journal of Operations Management (2019), and the Faculty Sustainability award from Pennsylvania State University (2019). Her work has been published in a variety of prestigious journals, including Journal of Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, Journal of Management, Journal of Supply Chain Management, and Decision Sciences. She also publishes in managerial outlets such as Harvard Business Review and Supply Chain Management Review. She currently serves as an associate editor for the Journal of Operations Management and a senior editor for Production and Operations Management. Villena's research papers can be accessed at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Veronica_Villena.
Before joining W. P. Carey, professor Villena was an assistant professor of supply chain management at the Pennsylvania State University. She received her doctorate in business and MBA from IE Business School (Spain) and her bachelor degree in industrial engineering from Universidad Nacional de Ingenieria (Peru).
- Ph.D. Business Administration, IE Business School
- M.B.A. IE Business School
- Industrial Engineering, Universidad Nacional de Ingenieria
Guanyi, L. Guo, X., Villena, V.H., Doug, V., & Heim, G. 2022. Supply chain transformation and technology management challenges in developing regions: Inductive theory building from rural Chinese nanostores. Journal of Operations Management, 68(5): 454-486.
Villena, V.H., Nicholson, C., Novakovic, A., Stephenson, M. 2021. Management lessons from the U.S. dairy sector’s pandemic response. Supply Chain Management Review. Article available here.
Gomez-Mejia, L., Martin, G., Villena, V.H., & Wiseman, R. 2021. The behavioral agency model: Revised concepts and implications for operations and supply chain management. Decision Sciences Journal, 52(5): 1026-1038.
Wilhelm, M.M., & Villena, V.H. 2021. Cascading sustainability in multi-tier supply chains: When do Chinese suppliers adopt sustainable procurement practices? Production and Operations Management, 30 (11): 4198-4218.
Villena, V.H., Wilhelm, M.M., & Xiao, C-Y. 2021. Untangling drivers for supplier environmental and social responsibility: An Investigation in Philips Lighting’ Chinese Supply Chain. Journal of Operations Management, 67: 476–510.
Villena, V.H., & Gioia, D. 2020. A more sustainable supply chain. Harvard Business Review, 98(2): 84–93. https://hbr.org/2020/03/a-more-sustainable-supply-chain
Villena, V.H., Revilla, E., & Choi, T.Y. 2020. Mitigating mechanisms for the dark side of collaborative buyer-supplier relationships: A mix-method study. Journal of Supply Chain Management, 57(4): 86–116.
Villena, V. H., & Dhanokhar, S. 2020. How institutional pressures and managerial incentives elicit carbon transparency in global supply chains. Journal of Operations Management, 66(6): 697–734.
Villena, V.H. 2019. The missing link? The strategic role of procurement in building sustainable supply networks. Production and Operations Management, 28 (5): 1149–1172.
Villena, V.H., Choi, T.Y., & Revilla, E. 2019. Revisiting inter-organizational trust: Is more always better or could more be worse? Journal of Management, 45(2): 752–785.
Villena, V.H. & Gioia, D. 2018. On the riskiness of lower-tier suppliers: Managing sustainability in supply networks. Journal of Operations Management, 64: 65–87.
Villena, V.H., Lu, G., Gomez-Mejia, L., & Revilla, E. 2018. Is top management team-supply chain manager interaction the missing link? An analysis of risk-bearing antecdents for supply chain managers. International Journal of Operations and Production Management, 38(8): 1640–1663.
Villena, V. H., & Craighead, C. 2017. On the same page? How asymmetric buyer-supplier relationships affect opportunism and performance. Production and Operations Management, 26(3): 491–508.
Villena, V.H., Choi, T.Y., & Revilla, E. 2015. Managing the dark side of collaborative buyer-supplier relationships. Supply Chain Management Review, November-December: 50–55. Article available here.
Salvador, F., & Villena, V. H. 2013. Supplier integration and new product development outcomes: Conditional moderation effects of modular design competence. Journal of Supply Chain Management, 49 (1): 87–113.
Revilla, E., & Villena, V.H. 2012. Knowledge integration taxonomy in buyer-supplier relationships: Trade-offs between efficiency and innovation. International Journal of Production Economics, 140 (2): 854–864.
Villena, V.H., Revilla, E., & Choi, T.Y. 2011.The dark side of collaborative buyer-supplier relationships: A social capital perspective. Journal of Operations Management, 29(6): 561–576.
Villena, V.H., Gomez-Mejia, L., & Revilla, E. 2009. The decision of the supply chain executive to support or impede supply chain integration: A behavioral agency perspective. Decision Sciences, 40(4):635–665.
Courses
2022 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| SCM 355 | Supply Management |
| SCM 355 | Supply Management |
| SCM 355 | Supply Management |
2022 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| SCM 355 | Supply Management |
| SCM 355 | Supply Management |
2023 Jack Meredith Best Paper Award Finalist, Journal of Operations Management
2022 Responsible Research in Management Award Distinguished Winner, RRBM Network
2021 Elected as the upcoming PDW Chair of OSCM division, AOM Conference
2020 Chan Hahn Best Paper Award, AOM Conference, OSCM Division
2019 Jack Meredith Best Paper Award, Journal of Operations Management
2019 Faculty Sustainability Award, Smeal College of Business, Pennsylvania State University
2018 Best Reviewer Honorable Mention Award, Journal of Operations Management
2016 Chan Hahn Best Paper Award, AOM Conference, OSCM Division
2014 Best Reviewer Award, AOM Conference, Operations Management Division
2011 Chan Hahn Best Paper Award Finalist, AOM Conference, Operations Management Division
2010 Student Best Paper Competition Finalist, AOM Conference, Operations Management Division
2010 Student Best Paper Competition Finalist, POMS Conference, College of SCM
2009 Best Paper Award Finalist, Decision Sciences Journal
2001 Ranked first in graduating class, Universidad de Ingenieria
Senior Editor, Production and Operations Management Journal
Associate Editor, Journal of Operations Management