Bosung Kim

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

• Assistant Professor, Kyung Hee University, 2023 – Present

• 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) 

• 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

• Ministry of SMEs and Startups (2022 – 2025) “Data standardization in the discrete manufacturing industry." 

• National Research Foundation of Korea (2021 – 2024) “Operations management of a "Try-Before-You-Buy" online retail system."

• National Research Foundation of Korea (2019 – 2021) “Outsourcing decision of a multi-components product: Interdependency among the components."

Awards

• Excellence in Research Award, College of Engineering, Pusan National University, February, 2022

• Best Paper Award, Korean Production and Operations Management Society, May, 2021

• Young Scholar Best Paper Award, The Korean Society of Supply Chain Management, May, 2021

• Best Paper Award, Korean Production and Operations Management Society, November, 2020

• Best Ph. D. Dissertation Award, Korean Operations Research and Management Science Society, October, 2016

Academic Service

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