Clemson’s Aleda Roth honored as Texas A&M Fellow; receives Emerald Award
Published: March 11, 2013
CLEMSON — Aleda Roth, the distinguished Burlington Industries Professor of Supply Chain Management in Clemson University’s College of Business and Behavioral Science, was named Texas A&M University Institute for Advanced Study Faculty Fellow at its inaugural class gathering in College Station.
Roth, the only female scholar in the class, joins eminent researchers who include a Nobel Laureate, members of the National Academies of Engineering and of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a fellow of the Royal Society in England.
“What a privilege and honor it is for Aleda to be distinguished for her research in a business discipline while standing beside geneticists, biochemists and physicists,” said V Sridharan, chairman of the management department at Clemson. “Aleda’s dedication to her research and passion for what she does is unparalleled.”
Roth also received the prestigious Emerald Citations of Excellence Award for 2012 for her article “Unraveling the food supply chain; strategic insights from China and the 2007 recalls” (Journal of Supply Chain Management, 2008). The annual award recognizes the 50 most outstanding articles published by the top 300 management journals in the world. With 15,000 article abstracts added to the Emerald Management Reviews database annually, receiving a Citation of Excellence represents one of the highest accolades an author can attain.
With more than 200 publications (92 in refereed journals), Roth’s work ranks in the top 1 percent of production and operations management scholars in the U.S. and seventh worldwide in service management research. In 2009, Roth became the first woman to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Production and Operations Management Society’s College of Service Operations, and in 2010, she was named to the executive advisory committee for the U.S. Manufacturing Competitiveness Initiative, a new flagship program developed by the U.S. Council on Competitiveness.
Roth came to Clemson in 2006 from Arizona State University, where she held the W.P. Carey Chair in Supply Chain Management. Previously, she was an Endowed Chair at the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She co-authored the 2010 Global Manufacturing Competitiveness Index Report in conjunction with Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu and the U.S. Council on Competitiveness to report how more than 400 manufacturing CEOs worldwide view their industries and national competitiveness.
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