Office: 469 RBC Phone: 610-758-4433 Fax: 610-758-6941 Email: bsf206@lehigh.edu Supply Chain Operations Logistics and Transportation Supply Chain Strategy

Brian Fugate is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Management. His major research interests are the role of boundary spanners in the firm and the supply chain, with an emphasis on logistics' role in creating and maintaining market-oriented and learning-oriented organizations and coordinating in the supply chain. This interest has led him to have four journal articles accepted for publication in the Journal of Business Logistics, one article in accepted for publication in the International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management, two articles published in Supply Chain Management Review, eleven published conference papers in the logistics, marketing, and operations disciplines, and several works in progress and under review. Professor Fugate teaches supply chain operations, logistics, and transportation. He joined the Lehigh University faculty in 2006 after graduating from The University of Tennessee with a Ph.D. in Business Administration, with a major in Logistics and minor in Marketing. Prior to pursuing the Ph.D., Professor Fugate worked in supply chain management and industrial engineering at John Deere, Allied Signal, and Delta Airlines.

Research Interests

• Logistics Market Orientation and Organizational Learning
• Supply Chain Boundary Spanners
• Supply Chain Coordination
• Supply Chain Logistics Strategy

Publications and Working Papers

• Davis, Beth R. and Brian S. Fugate, “State of Logistics:  A Visionary Perspective.” Journal of Business Logistics, (forthcoming).  Accepted in May 2007
• Esper, Terry L., Brian S. Fugate, and Beth R. Davis, “Sustaining the Competitive Advantage Gained Through Logistics Leverage: A Learning Perspective.” Journal of Business Logistics, (forthcoming).  Accepted in November 2006.
• Davis, Beth R., Brian S. Fugate, and Ayman Omar (2007), “Functional/Dysfunctional Supply Chain Exchanges,” International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management.  Vol. 37, No. 1, pp. 43-63.
• Fugate, Brian S., Funda Sahin, and John T. Mentzer (2006), “Supply Chain Management Coordination Mechanisms,” Journal of Business Logistics, Vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 129-161.   
• Stank, Theodore P., Beth R. Davis, and Brian S. Fugate (2005),"A Strategic Framework for Differentiating SCM from Logistics." Journal of Business Logistics, Vol. 26, No. 2, pp. 27-46.
• Fugate, Brian S. and John T. Mentzer (2004), "Dell's Supply Chain DNA," Supply Chain Management Review, Sept./Oct. issue.

Links

Curriculum Vitae

Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals

Lehigh University Center For Value Chain Research