Barbara Flynn

Barbara B. Flynn is the Richard M. and Myra Louise Buskirk Professor of Manufacturing Management at the Kelley School of Management, Indiana University. She received a D.B.A. in operations management from Indiana University, a M.B.A., with an emphasis in operations management and managerial economics, from Marquette University and a B.A. in psychology from Ripon College. Her previous academic appointments have been at Wake Forest University, Iowa State University and Louisiana State University. She is a Fellow of the Decision Sciences Institute and recipient of the Distinguished Service Award from the Decision Sciences Institute and the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Operations Management division of the Academy of Management. Dr. Flynn has received over $1 million in research funding from the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education and the Center for Innovation Management Studies. She is co-director of the High Performance Manufacturing research group, a joint project between Indiana University and the University of Minnesota, which studies the relationship between manufacturing practices and performance in various organizational and national cultures. Other research interests include global supply chain management, quality management, operations strategy, JIT and group technology. She has published articles in Management Science, Decision Sciences, Journal of Operations Management, International Journal of Operations Management and other leading journals, as well as a book and numerous book chapters. Dr. Flynn is former Editor-in-Chief and founding editor of Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, and former Editor-in-Chief of Quality Management Journal. She is an Associate Editor of Journal of Operations Management and Decision Sciences. She serves on the Editorial Review Board of International Journal of Applied Quality Management, Production and Operations Management, and Benchmarking for Quality Management and Technology. Dr. Flynn is a past President of the Decision Sciences Institute and has held leadership positions within the Decision Sciences Institute, Academy of Management, Institute for Management Sciences (TIMS) and American Production and Inventory Control Society. She previously served as Director of the Indiana University Center for International Business Education and Research. At Indiana University, Dr. Flynn teaches M.B.A. courses in project management, service operations management, and operations management.

Publications

Effect of Customer Power on Supply Chain Integration and Performance
Effect of Customer Power on Supply Chain Integration and Performance
Xiande Zhao, Baofeng Huo, Barbara Flynn, Jeff Yeung. © 2013. 28 pages.
Supply chain integration (SCI) has received increasing attention from academic researchers and practitioners in recent years, however, our knowledge of what influences SCI, and...
Investment in Transaction-Specific Assets and Opportunistic Behavior in a Chinese Supply Chain
Investment in Transaction-Specific Assets and Opportunistic Behavior in a Chinese Supply Chain
Xiande Zhao, Yi Liu, Liping Qian, Barbara Flynn. © 2012. 27 pages.
This chapter addresses the relationship between a supplier and the manufacturers that it serves, from the perspective of transaction cost economics theory (TCE). TCE deals with...
Managing Global Supply Chain Relationships: Operations, Strategies and Practices
Managing Global Supply Chain Relationships: Operations, Strategies and Practices
Barbara Flynn, Michiya Morita, Jose Machuca. © 2011. 434 pages.
Recent news events related to quality in global supply chains have called attention to the need for more research on supply chains that operate in a global context. Indeed, it...
Investment in Transaction-Specific Assets and Opportunistic Behavior in a Chinese Supply Chain
Investment in Transaction-Specific Assets and Opportunistic Behavior in a Chinese Supply Chain
Xiande Zhao, Yi Liu, Liping Qian, Barbara Flynn. © 2011. 27 pages.
This chapter addresses the relationship between a supplier and the manufacturers that it serves, from the perspective of transaction cost economics theory (TCE). TCE deals with...
Effect of Customer Power on Supply Chain Integration and Performance
Effect of Customer Power on Supply Chain Integration and Performance
Xiande Zhao, Baofeng Huo, Barbara Flynn, Jeff Yeung. © 2011. 28 pages.
Supply chain integration (SCI) has received increasing attention from academic researchers and practitioners in recent years, however, our knowledge of what influences SCI, and...