Applied Guide for Event Study Research in Supply Chain Management

This book focuses on the use of short-run event study methods to study management phenomenon using examples from the supply chain management discipline. It enables researchers or graduates research students to understand and assess how an event, which may be due to management decisions or external sources, will influence companies. Supply chain topics such as inventory, sourcing and partnerships, and global factors such as regulation can be studied using event studies. This book is organized as a handbook that supports research study design by providing insights into challenges and opportunities over all phases of an event study project in the area of supply chain management.

The primary objective of this book is to support graduate students and researchers to understand how to develop, execute, and publish an event study specifically in the area of supply chain management, with valuable support for wider management studies. It explains how to design a study that addresses issues before they arise, or how to tackle the issue during the review process. As a result, users of the book will be better able to design and publish research using this method and push forward an understanding in the discipline.

The primary audience for this book is graduate research students. Every effort is made to address core and essential principles of this type of research method, including philosophy of science, as well as the details required to guide a project in practice. It can be used as a text in a quantitatively focused management research methods class or it can also be used by students and researchers to guide their design and execution of an event study project.