Bosung Kim

Associate Professor, School of Management 

Kyung Hee University

Email: bkim[at] khu.ac.kr

Education

• Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Ph.D. in Management Engineering, 2017.

• Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, B.S. in Mathematical Sciences, 2009.

Work Experience

• Associate Professor, Kyung Hee University, 2025 – Present

• Assistant Professor, Kyung Hee University, 2023 – 2025

• Assistant Professor, Pusan National University, 2019 – 2023

• Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of British Columbia, 2017– 2019

Research Interest

• Operations management and information systems/marketing interface

• Global supply chain management of a manufacturing firm

• Consumer behavior in operations management

Publications (*  corresponding author) 

• Gao, X., Chen, X., Park, C., and Kim, B.* 2025. Facility Location Decision under Data Contamination: Robustness Properties and Performance," European Journal of Industrial Engineering, Forthcoming

• Nurminarsih, S., Jeong, Y., Kim, B.*, and Han, J.* 2025. “Protection level decision in the slot allocation of a carrier: Trade-offs between advanced and spot market selling,” Maritime Policy and Management, 52(7): 1028-1047

• Kim, B.*, Ivanov, D., and Yoon, J. 2025. "Improving Product Safety in an International Agrifood Supply Chain," Journal of Operational Research Society, 74(7): 1355-1378

• Sim, J. and Kim, B.* 2024. "Is Green Optimism Good for the Environment but Bad for Firms?—A Study on Green Optimism in a Supply chain," Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 190(103706) 

• Chen, X., Park, C., Gao, X., and Kim, B.* 2023. Robust Model Design by Comparative Evaluation of Clustering Algorithms," IEEE Access, 11: 88135-99151

• Jung, D., Kim, B.*, and Yoo, S.H.* 2023. “How to Facilitate Supplier-Supplier Collaboration: Impact of Order Allocation Policy and Subsidy Offering," Annals of Operations Research, 323(1-2): 79-107

• Park, Y.S., Sim, J. and Kim, B.* 2022. “Online Retail Operations with Try-Before-You-Buy,” European Journal of Operational Research, 299(3): 987-1002

• Kim, B., Kim, S.W., Iravani, S.M.R., and Park, K.S.* 2021. “Simple Mechanisms for Sequential Capacity Allocation,” Production and Operations Management, 30(9): 2925-2943 (UT Dallas 24 Journal, Financial Times 50 Journal)

• Kim, B., Kim, S.W., and Park, K.S.* 2021. “Promoting Supplier’s Environmental Innovation via Emission Taxation,” International Journal of Production Economics, 240: 108240

• Sim, J. and Kim, B.* 2021. “Sourcing Decision in the Presence of a Complementary Component,” Omega, 101: 102281

• Sim, J. and Kim, B.* 2019. “Commitment to Environmental and Climate Change Sustainability under Competition,” Sustainability, 11(7): 2089

• Kim, B., Park, K.S.*, Jung, S.Y., and Park, S.H. 2018. “Offshoring and Outsourcing in a Global Supply Chain: Impact of the Arm's Length Regulation on Transfer Pricing,” European Journal of Operational Research, 266(1): 88-98

• Jang, D-C., Kim, B.*, and Lee, S-Y. 2018. “A Two-sided Market Platform Analysis for the Electric Vehicle Adoption: Firm Strategies and Policy Design,” Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 62: 646-658 

• Jang, D-C., Kim, B.*, and Kim, S.H. 2018. “The Effect of Green Building Certification on Potential Tenants’ Willingness to Rent Space in a Building,” Journal of Cleaner Production, 194: 645-655 

• Kim, B. and Park, K.S.* 2016. “Organizational Structure of a Global Supply Chain in the Presence of a Gray Market: Information Asymmetry and Valuation Difference,” International Journal of Production Economics, 175: 71-80

Teaching Experience

• Production and Operations Management (undergraduate)

• Supply Chain Management (undergraduate/graduate)

• Operations Research I (undergraduate)

• Operations Research II (undergraduate)

Research Funding

• 한국연구재단(2025 - 2026) “환불옵션 조합을 통한 전략적 수익 최적화 연구," 연구책임자

• 정석물류학술재단(2025) "디지털 전환을 고려한 비즈니스 모델 수립 및 공급망 구성에 관한 연구," 공동연구자

• 중소벤처기업부(2022 - 2023) “이산공정(Discrete manufacturing) 특성산업의 설비/공장/기업간 공유 데이터 표준화," 연구책임자

• 부산산업과학혁신원(2022) "산학 연계를 통한 육해상 통합 컨테이너 운영관리 연구기획," 공동연구자

• 한국연구재단(2021 - 2024) “선경험 후결제 리테일 시스템의 운영관리 연구," 연구책임자

• 한국연구재단(2019 - 2021) “다부품 제품의 아웃소싱 의사결정: 부품 간 상호의존성을 중심으로," 연구책임자

Awards

• 차동완 젊은 경영과학자상, 한국경영과학회, 2024

• 우수연구자상, 부산대학교 공과대학, 2022

• 신진학자 우수 논문상, 한국SCM학회, 2021

• 최우수 박사학위 논문상, 한국경영과학회, 2016

Academic Service

• Ad-hoc reviewer for European Journal of Operational Research, Omega, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, and Annals of Operations Research