Quantitative Analysis and Supply & Logistics Management Research

Lee Buddress, Ph.D.
Leland A.W. Buddress, Supply and Logistics Management, has a B.S. from University of California, Berkeley and a Ph.D. from Michigan State University. Dr. Buddress teaches supply and logistics management, operations management, and negotiation. His twenty years of experience in supply, logistics and operations management provide the foundation for his research interests in international supply and logistics and forecasting. Dr. Buddress is actively involved with National Association of Purchasing Management, American Production and Inventory Control Society, and Industrial Distribution Association.

David Gerbing, Ph.D.
His research interests are in the areas of quantitative analysis, multivariate statistics, and behavioral measurement and assessment.

Mellie Pullman, Ph.D.
Her major research interests include regional and sustainable food supply chain issues, new product and service design, recreation and experience design, and operations/marketing interdisciplinary issues. Her articles have appeared in various journals including Journal of Operations Management, Decision Sciences, Production and Operations Management, Journal of Service Research, International Journal of Service Industry Management, Cornell Hotel and Restaurant Administration Quarterly, Omega, and Journal of Product Innovation Management.

David Raffo, Ph.D.
Dr. Raffo's research interests include Strategic Software and Systems Engineering, Economic Analysis of Engineering Decisions, Business Case Development, Software Process Improvement, Quality Assurance Planning and Quantitative Process Management. Dr. Raffo has over fifty peer reviewed publications in the field of software engineering and three U.S. Patents.

Neil Ramiller, Ph.D.
His primary research activities address the management of information-technology innovations, with a particular focus on the role that rhetoric, narrative, and discourse play in shaping innovation processes within organizations and across inter-organizational communities. He also conducts work on the social construction of information technology scholarship, and the implementation of the "linguistic turn"® in information technology studies.

Erica Wagner, Ph.D.
Dr. Wagner focuses on the ways in software is ‘made to work’ within different organizational contexts, paying particular attention to narrative articulations of action and how these texts show negotiation, compromise and temporal practices.