Tim Kraft
Business Management
Associate Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management
Associate Research Director of Supply Chain Resource Cooperative
Business Management
Nelson Hall 2344
919.515.7346 tckraft@ncsu.eduBio
At NC State, Tim Kraft has taught operations strategy and sustainable OM courses at the MBA level, and OM research seminars for PhD students. In 2024, he received an Outstanding Teacher Award from NC State.
Tim previously taught at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business and was a visiting faculty at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He received his doctorate degree from Stanford University.
Tim’s work has appeared in leading publications such as Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, and Sloan Management Review. In 2024, he was named an NC State University Faculty Scholar.
Education
Ph.D. Management Science and Engineering Stanford University 2011
MBM Business Management University of Texas at Austin 2005
M.S. Mechanical Engineering University of Texas at Austin 2005
B.S. Industrial Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology 1999
Area(s) of Expertise
Tim Kraft’s research examines environmental and social responsibility issues in supply chains. Topics he has recently studied include examining the impact of supply chain transparency on consumers’ and companies’ decision making in social responsibility contexts, investigating ways for different stakeholders to motivate suppliers to improve their sustainability practices, studying how environmental regulations influence companies and activists’ decision making, and understanding the role of audits in improving CSR in supply chains.
Publications
- Environmental Regulation Design: Motivating Firms’ Clean Technology Investments With Penalties and Subsidies , Production and Operations Management (2024)
- Setting the deadline and the penalty policy for a new environmental standard , European Journal of Operational Research (2023)
- Supply Chain Disruption Game , (2023)
- Supply Chain Transparency and Sustainability , Foundations and Trends® in Technology, Information and Operations Management (2023)
- The Effects of CSR Performance and Price on Consumer Purchase Decisions - A Moderated Mediation Analysis , MSOM Annual Meeting (2023)
- Consumer Pressure Is Key to Fixing Dire Labor Conditions in the Clothing Supply Chain , Supply Chain: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review (2022)
- Consumer trust in social responsibility communications: The role of supply chain visibility , Production and Operations Management (2022)
- Examining the Impact of Monitor Leniency on Supplier Audits , MSOM Annual Meeting (2022)
- How Supply Chain Transparency Boosts Business Value , Sloan Management Review (2021)
- Supply Chain Transparency at Goodio Chocolate , Responsible Business Operations (2021)
Grants
A mixed methods research design is proposed to provide the fundamental knowledge for building an effective Social Responsibility Index (SRI) mechanism. To create the SRI, we propose three major research components: first, we propose employing desk and field research to establish a refined set of social responsibility criteria based on secondary data and second, we will conduct a series of Delphi surveys among experts representing the primary stakeholder groups including factory owners, auditors, brand compliance officers and additional entities. Finally, inputs from this research will generate the SRI framework. Concurrently, two consumer behavior studies will be deployed: a series of consumer experiments using an online crowdsourcing service to gain initial insights into consumers������������������ perceptions for CSR; followed by a series of focused lab experiments. Findings from the online and lab experiments will inform the design of the SRI.
Honors and Awards
- 2024 | University Faculty Scholar, NC State Unviersity
- 2021 | MSOM Meritorious Service Award