Prof. George Zsidisin

George A. Zsidisin, PhD, CPSM, C.P.M. is one of the world’s leading scholars in supply chain risk management and resilience. He was the John W. Barriger III Professor and Director of the Supply Chain Risk & Resilience Research (SCR³) Institute at the University of Missouri–St. Louis, where he leads globally engaged research on supply risk, supply continuity, commodity price volatility, and resilience strategy.

Dr. Zsidisin’s research has fundamentally shaped how scholars and practitioners conceptualize and manage supply chain risk. His work spans supply risk assessment, resilience, foreign exchange risk, commodity price volatility, sustainability, and supply chain integration, grounded in strong theoretical foundations including transaction cost economics, agency theory, resource-based view, and institutional theory.

He has published extensively in top-tier journals, including the Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management, Journal of Business Logistics, Journal of Operations Management, International Journal of Production Research, and Journal of Supply Chain Management. His scholarly impact includes 11,622+ Google Scholar citations and an h-index of 40, reflecting sustained influence across academia and practice.

Dr. Zsidisin has held significant editorial leadership roles, most notably serving as Co-Editor of the Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management (2010–2015), during which the journal achieved its first Impact Factor and rose substantially in global rankings. He currently serves on multiple editorial boards and as Associate Editor for leading supply chain journals.

Beyond publishing, he has secured and led externally funded research projects supported by organizations such as IBM, CAPS Research, ISM, KPMG, and university research councils, and he is a frequent keynote speaker and invited panelist at major international conferences.