Tom Gattiker, Ph.D., CFPIM, is an Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management at Boise State University. Before obtaining his Ph.D. from the University of Georgia (2000), he held a variety of positions in operations and inventory management, most recently at Rockwell Automation/Reliance Electric. He is certified in production and inventory management (CFPIM) by the American Production and Inventory Control Society and he is a past president of that organization's Athens, Georgia chapter. Dr. Gattiker's research focuses on environmentally sustainable supply management, as well as on the use of information systems, including e-commerce systems, in operations and supply chain management. His research appears in The Journal of Operations Management, The Journal of Supply Chain Management, The International Journal of Production Research, MIS Quarterly, Information and Management, Production and Inventory Management Journal, Quality Management Journal, Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, and other journals and books. He is an associate editor at the Journal of Supply Chain Management and a member of the editorial review boards of the Journal of Operations Management and Quality Management Journal.
Articles
Do Competitive Priorities Drive Adoption of Electronic Commerce Applications? Testing the Contingency and Institutional Views (with Xiaowen Huang and Roger G. Schroeder), Journal of Supply Chain Management (2010)
This paper expands on recent research by Huang and colleagues examining the drivers of electronic...
Championing Environmental Supply Management Initiatives: The Importance of Influence Tactics, Company Climate, and Individual Values (with Craig R. Carter, Wendy L. Tate, and Xiaowen Huang), CAPS Research (2010)
This focus study is the second part of the 2008 CAPS Research Focus Study entitled...
Interpersonal Trust Formation During the Supplier Selection Process: The Role of Communication Channel (with Xiaowen Huang and Joshua L. Schwarz), Journal of Supply Chain Management (2008)
This study investigates business-to-business interpersonal trust formation (trust that develops between boundary spanning individuals from...
Structure-Infrastructure Alignment: The Relationship Between TQM Orientation and the Adoption of Supplier-Facing Electronic Commerce Among Manufacturers (with Xiaowen Huang and Roger G. Schroeder), Journal of Supply Chain Management (2008)
Total Quality Management (TQM) is widely adopted in industry and well studied in academe. It...
ERP Systems and the Manufacturing-Marketing Interface: An Information Processing Theory View, International Journal of Production Research (2007)
The manufacturing-marketing (MM) interface has received substantial consideration in the operations management literature; however, relatively...
Presentations
Can Students Pass the Test: Should We Use Student Subjects in Operations Management Research (with Xiaowen Huang and Joshua L. Schwarz), 39th Annual Conference of the Decision Sciences Institution (2008)
Student subject research is rarely used and published in the OM field. This study investigates...