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

Selected Publications (*  corresponding author) 

• 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)

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

• 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

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