Kevin Dooley

Professor,

NASPO Department of Supply Chain Management

Other ASU affiliations

Complex Adaptive Supply Networks Research Accelerator

Senior Global Futures Scientist, Global Futures Scientists and Scholars

BA 426 TEMPE, AZ 85287-4706
Mail code: 4706

Campus: Tempe
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Long Bio

Dr. Kevin J. Dooley a Professor of Supply Chain Management in the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. He is a Dean’s Council Distinguished Scholar, Co-Director of the Complex Adaptive Supply Networks Research Accelerator, and a Senior Global Futures Scientist in the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory. Dooley won a Distinguished Scholar Award from the Academy of Management, and a W. P. Carey School of Business Dean’s Distinguished Career Research Award. As Chief Scientist of The Sustainability Consortium (TSC), Dooley worked with industry stakeholders to make consumer products more sustainable. TSC developed the Walmart Sustainability Index and won the ASU President’s Award for Sustainability in 2024. Dooley has published more than 100 research articles and has provided training or consultation for over 200 companies in the areas of sustainability, supply chain management, quality, complexity science, text analysis, and technology and innovation. He obtained his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering at the University of Illinois.

Education

Ph.D. Mechnical Engineering, University of Illinois 1987
M.S. Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois 1984
B.S. Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois 1982

Curriculum Vitae

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Research Website URL

http://www.public.asu.edu/~kdooley/

Google Scholar URL

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=IOXBqacAAAAJ&hl=en

Research Interests

Supply Chain Management
Quality Management
Management of Technology and Innovation
Complex Systems
Sustainability
Text Analysis

Research Group

Chief Scientist, The Sustainability Consortium
Co-Director, Complex Adaptive Supply Networks Research Accelerator
Associate, Center for Biodiversity Outcomes

Publications

Recent publications:

Dooley, K., Pathak, S., Kull, T., Wu, Z., Johnson, J., and Rabinovich, E. (2019), “Process network modularity, commonality, and greenhouse gas emissions,” Journal of Operations Management, 65(2): 93-113.
Johnson, J., Dooley, K., Hyatt, D., and Hutson, A. (2018), “Cross-sector relations in global supply chains: A social capital perspective,” Journal of Supply Chain Management, 54(2): 21-33.
Yan, T., Yang, Y., and Dooley, K. (2017), “A theory of supplier network-based innovation value,” Journal of Purchasing & Supply Management, 23(3): 153-162.
Choi, B-J., Raghu, T.S., Vinze, A., and Dooley, K. (2017), “Effectiveness of standards consortia: Social network perspectives,” Information Systems Frontiers, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10796-017-9759-x.
Cheon, S., Maltz, A., and Dooley, K. (2017), “The link between economic and environmental performance of the top ten US ports,” Maritime Policy and Management, 44(2): 227-247.
Dooley, K. (2016), “Using manifest content analysis in purchasing and supply management research,” Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management, 22(4): 244-246.
Chen, Y-S., Dooley, K., and Rungtusanatham, M. (2016), “Using text analysis and process modeling to examine buyer-supplier relationship dissolution: The Ford-Firestone breakup,” Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management, 22(4): 325-337.
Ugarte, M., Dooley, K., and Golden, J. (2016), “Lean versus green: The impact of lean logistics on greenhouse gas emissions in consumer goods supply chains,” Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management, 22(2): 98-109.
Dooley, K., and Johnson, J. (2015), “Product category-level sustainability measurement: The Sustainability Consortium’s approach to materiality and indicators,” Journal of Industrial Ecology, 19(3): 337-339.
Dooley, K. (2014), “The whole chain”, Science, 244(6188): 1108.
Kull, T., Oke, A., and Dooley, K. (2014), “Supplier selection behavior under uncertainty: Contextual and cognitive effects on risk perception and choice,” Decision Sciences, 45(3): 467-505.
Tate, W., Ellram, L., and Dooley, K. (2014), “The impact of transaction costs and institutional pressure on supplier environmental practices”, International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management, 44(5): 353-372.
Yan, T., and Dooley, K. (2014), “Buyer-Supplier collaboration quality in new product development projects,” J. of Supply Chain Management, 50(2): 59-83.

Research Activity

Between 2008 and 2019, part of leadership of The Sustainability Consortium which has raised $50M from corporate donors as gifts to ASU and University of Arkansas.
Dooley,Kevin John*, Choi,Thomas Younghoon, Kull,Thomas J, Rabinovich,Elliot. Supply Network Design and Product Environmental Performance. NSF-SES (9/15/2010 - 8/31/2012).
Dooley,Kevin John*, Maltz,Arnold. Supply Chain Resiliency - A Risk Assessment Framework for Global Service Supply Chains. IBM( 8/1/2006 - 12/31/2007).
Corman,Steven Robert*, Dooley,Kevin John. STTR: Phase II-Text Mining Under Storage Constraints. CRAWDAD TECH 2/28/2005 - 6/27/2007).
Corman,Steven Robert*, Dooley,Kevin John. Molecular Imaging to ASU Software Factory. MOLECULAR IMAGE CORP (1/1/2004 - 5/15/2004).
Dooley,Kevin John*, Corman,Steven Robert. STTR: CENTERING RESONANCE ANALYSIS-A SUPERIOR APPROACH FOR MINING TEXTUAL DATA STREAMS. CRAWDAD TECH (9/15/2003 - 6/30/2004).
Holbert,Keith Edwin*, Dooley,Kevin John, Dooley,Kevin John. UNIFIED POWER AND COMMUNICATION INFRASTRUCTURES FOR HIGH SECURITY ELECTRICITY SUPPLY. VIRGINIA POLYTECH INST (9/15/2002 - 8/31/2005).
Dooley,Kevin John*. APPLYING INDUSTRY CLUSTER DYNAMICS DATA TO SIMULATION SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT. CA STATE LIBRARY FDN (9/20/2000 - 9/30/2001).
Choi,Thomas Younghoon*, Dooley,Kevin John, Ye,Nong. SCALABLE ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS: CONTROL VERSUS EMERGENCE. NSF-ENG (8/1/2000 - 8/31/2002).
Capone,Jeffrey*, Bhattacharya,Sourav, Dooley,Kevin John, Dooley,Kevin John. QUALITY AND PROCESS IN ENGINEERING OF COMPLEX NETWORK SYSTEMS - A WORKSHOP PROPOSAL. NSF-CISE (9/15/1999 - 8/31/2001).
Dooley,Kevin John*. BEST PRACTICES, MATURITY, AND DIFFUSTION IN NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT. NSF-SBE (2/1/1998 - 6/30/2000).

Courses

2026 Spring

Course Number	Course Title
SCM 493	Honors Thesis
SCM 485	Business and Sustainability II
SOS 485	Business and Sustainability II
SCM 485	Business and Sustainability II
SOS 485	Business and Sustainability II
SOS 792	Research
SOS 799	Dissertation

2025 Fall

Course Number	Course Title
SOS 592	Research
SCM 492	Honors Directed Study
BUS 593	Applied Project
SCM 593	Applied Project
SCM 593	Applied Project

2025 Spring

Course Number	Course Title
SCM 493	Honors Thesis
SOS 792	Research
SOS 799	Dissertation
SCM 792	Research

2024 Fall

Course Number	Course Title
SCM 502	Operations & Supply Chain Mgmt
SOS 592	Research
SCM 492	Honors Directed Study
BUS 593	Applied Project
SCM 517	Business Process Analytics

2024 Summer

Course Number	Course Title
SOS 792	Research

2024 Spring

Course Number	Course Title
SOS 599	Thesis
BUS 593	Applied Project
SCM 591	Seminar
SOS 792	Research
SOS 799	Dissertation

2023 Fall

Course Number	Course Title
SOS 592	Research
SCM 591	Seminar

2023 Summer

Course Number	Course Title
SOS 792	Research

2023 Spring

Course Number	Course Title
SOS 799	Dissertation
SOS 599	Thesis
SOS 792	Research
BUS 593	Applied Project

2022 Fall

Course Number	Course Title
SOS 592	Research
SCM 591	Seminar

2022 Summer

Course Number	Course Title
SOS 484	Internship
SOS 792	Research

2022 Spring

Course Number	Course Title
SCM 493	Honors Thesis
SOS 799	Dissertation
SOS 599	Thesis
SOS 792	Research
BUS 593	Applied Project
IVD 494	Special Topics
IVD 598	Special Topics
CRJ 494	Special Topics
CRJ 598	Special Topics

2021 Fall

Course Number	Course Title
SOS 592	Research
SCM 591	Seminar
SOS 792	Research
SCM 581	Mgmt of Technology/Innovation
SCM 581	Mgmt of Technology/Innovation

2021 Summer

Course Number	Course Title
SOS 484	Internship
SOS 792	Research

2021 Spring

Course Number	Course Title
SCM 493	Honors Thesis
SOS 599	Thesis
ASU 140-WPC	ProMod
SCM 581	Mgmt of Technology/Innovation
SCM 581	Mgmt of Technology/Innovation

Honors / Awards

Bright Idea Award, 2025, Stillman School of Business at Seton Hall University, for paper, “Unchaining supply chains: Transformative leaps toward regenerating social-ecological systems”, published in JSCM.
ASU President’s Award for Sustainability, 2024, given to The Sustainability Consortium.
W. P. Carey Dean’s Distinguished Career Research Award, 2024.
Wiley Top Cited Article 2023, Gualandris, J., Branzei, O., Wilhelm, M., Lazzarini, S., Linnenluecke, M., Hamann, R., Dooley, K,; Barnett, M.; Chen, C-M. (2023), “Unchaining supply chains: Transformative leaps toward regenerating social-ecological systems,” Journal of Supply Chain Management, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1111/jscm.12314.
Distinguished Scholar Award, 2022, Academy of Management, Operations and Supply Chain Management Division.
Top Cited Article 2020-21, Journal of Operations Management, for Yan, T., Yang, Y., Dooley, K., and S. Chae (2020), “Trading-off innovation novelty and information protection in supplier selection for a new product development project: Supplier ties as signals,” Journal of Operations Management, 66(7-8): 933-957, https://doi.org/10.1002/joom.1079. (Honorable Mention, Jack Meredith Best Paper Award, 2020)
Top Cited Article 2020-21, Journal of Business Logistics, for Novak, D., Wu, Z., and Dooley, K. (2021), “Whose resilience matters? Addressing issues of scale in supply chain resilience,” Journal of Business Logistics 42(3): 323-335, https://doi.org/10.1111/jbl.12270
Honorable Mention, Jack Meredith Best Paper Award, 2020. (Yan, T., Yang, Y., Dooley, K., and S. Chae (2020), “Trading-off innovation novelty and information protection in supplier selection for a new product development project: Supplier ties as signals,” Journal of Operations Management, 66(7-8): 933-957.)
Winner of Best Theory-Driven Empirical Paper, 2019 Decision Scienes Institute Conference, New Orleans, LA. (Hsu, K., and Dooley, K., “Corporate greenhouse gas emissions: Setting goals for operational efficiency.”)
Biography published: Eoyang, G. (2017), “Kevin J. Dooley: Complexity – Simple and Useful,” in The Palgrave Handbook of Organizational Change Thinkers, D. Szabla, W. Pasmore, M. Barnes, and A. Gipson (eds.), p 435-450, London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Winner of Best Theoretical Research Paper, 2017 Decision Sciences Conference, Washington, D.C. (Behravesh, S-A., Kinicki, A., Basile, G., and Dooley, K., “Uncovering sustainable business practice bundles.)
Winner of Best Student Paper, OSCM Division, 2016 Academy of Management Conference, Anaheim, CA. (Golara, S., and Dooley, K., “The influence of manufacturing services on innovation).
In 2015 ASU highlighted The Sustainability Consortium as one of the exemplars of the New American University in a film produced for the Arizona Board of Regents.
Wrote an invited editorial about sustainable supply chains for Science in 2014.
Scientific American named the research project I was managing one of the “Top Ten World Changing Ideas in 2012”.
Identified as 8th most “impactful” business faculty in world in 2010 by an Editorial by the journal Technovation (22: 2012).
Associate Editor Appreciation Award (2010): Journal of Supply Chain Management.
Associate Editor Appreciation Award (2009): Journal of Supply Chain Management.
Best Reviewer Award (2008): Journal of Operations Management.
Finalist for the Harold E. Fearon Best Paper Award (2008): Azadegan A., Dooley K., Carter J., and Carter P. “Supplier innovativeness, learning contingencies and manufacturer performance: An organizational learning perspective,” Journal of Supply Chain Management, 44 (4): 14-35.
Associate Editor Appreciation Award (2008): Journal of Supply Chain Management.
Best Book Award (2001), International Communication Association, Organizational Communication Division: Poole, M., Van de Ven, A., Dooley, K., and M Holmes (2000), Organizational Change and Innovation Processes: Theory and Methods for Research, Oxford Press

Editorships

Journal Editorial Staff

Elementa: Science of the Anthropecene
Journal of Business Logistics
Journal of Supply Chain Management
Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and Life Sciences

Professional Associations

Trustee, Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology & Life Sciences (2002-present)

Graduate Faculties / Mentoring History

Ph.D.

Kang Hsu, “Three Essays on Firm Responses to Climate Change”, 2020.
Feng Cheng, “Firm Environmental and Social Sustainability in Supply Chains”, 2020.Sina Golara, “Product-Service Bundles in the Manufacturing Sector,“ 2018.
Shirley-Ann Behravesh, “Uncovering Relationships between Sustainable Business Practice Bundles, Organizational Culture, and Performance,” 2017.
Tingting Yan, “Communication, Goals and Collaboration in Buyer-Supplier Joint Product Design,” 2011.
Marco Ugarte, “Energy and Carbon Dioxide Impacts from Lean Logistics and Retailing Systems: A Discrete-event Simulation Approach for the Consumer Goods Industry,” 2011.
Arash Azadegan, “Supplier Innovation and the Impact of Orgnizational Learning,” 2008.
Marcos Primo, “Supply Failure and Recovery Incidents in Business-to-Business Exchanges,” 2003.
Carlos Alsua, “Psychological Empowerment and Goal Orientation,” 2002.
Anand Subra, "Assessing Maturity and Best Practices in New Product Development," 2000.
Robert Monson, "The Contribution or Personality Traits And Context to the Career Success of Project Managers," 1999.
Daniel Rand, "Modeling and Experimentation for Multi-Response Optimization," 1998.
Mike Usrey, “Defining and Measuring Software Quality,” 1997.
David Bush, "Creativity in Real-World Engineering Design," 1997.
Sylvia Stevenson, "A Risk Analysis Methodology for an Advanced Intelligent Telecommunications Network," 1995.
Xiaohe Liu, "Process Knowledge Base for Continuous Process Improvement," 1992.
Yuan Guo, "A Decision Support System for Enhanced Evaluation of Quality," 1991.
Farzad Mahmoodi, "An Investigation of Dynamic Group Scheduling and Releasing Heuristics in Cellular Manufacturing", 1988.

Work History

Arizona State University (1997-present) Professor of Supply Chain Management (2003-present) Senior Sustainability Scientist, School of Sustainability (2010-present) Professor of Management, Professor of Industrial Engineering (1997-2003) The Sustainability Consortium (2008-2025) Roles as Academic Director, Executive Co-Director, and Chief Scientist Co-founder and CEO, Crawdad Technologies (2002-2013) University of Minnesota (1987-97) Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering (1992-97) Assistant Professor (1987-92) Director, Industrial Engineering Program (1993-97)

Service

Current:

Trustee, Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology & Life Sciences (2002-present)
Member, U.S. Plastics Pact, PCR Working Group (2022-present)
Member, U.S. Plastics Pact, Film and Flexibles Working Group (2023-present)
Associate Editor, J. Supply Chain Management (2008-present)
Editorial Review Board, J. Business Logistics (2010-present)
Editorial Board, Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and Life Sciences (1996-present)
Associate Editor, Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene (2014-present)
Complex Adaptive Supply Networks Reseach Accelerator (Co-Director, 2008-present)
SCM Personnel Committee (2003-present; Chair 2004-2007, 2008-present)
SCM Learning Enterprise (Director, 2022-present)
ASU Sustainable Coffee Challenge Representative (2016-present)
ASU Net Impact (Co-Advisor, 2015-present)
ASU General Studies Council (2024-present)
SCM Faculty Search (Chair, 2025-2026)
CARISCA (Advisor, 2021-present)
NASPO Gift Committee (2025-present)

Expertise Areas

Change Management

Complex Systems

Innovation in Supply Chains

Linguistics - Qualitative Methods

Network Science

Organizational Studies

Supply Chain Management

Supply Chain Management Decision Making

Sustainability

Sustainable Supply Chain Management