Research with
real-world stakes.
My research spans supply chain resilience, transportation and autonomous logistics, artificial intelligence and human relevance, professional sales education, and business strategy.
Research Programs
Resilience, Disruption & Geopolitical Reconfiguration
How global supply chains adapt when digital coordination, trade relationships, chokepoints, or capacity assumptions fail.
Selected publications →Autonomous & Space Logistics
Transportation strategy, autonomy fit, human-robot trust, and the resilience challenges created by increasingly autonomous logistics systems.
Selected publications →UAS Production Readiness
Regional manufacturing ecosystems, supplier depth, surge capacity, industrial readiness, and the conversion of defense-adjacent assets into scalable capability.
Applied work →Human Relevance & Business Education
AI anxiety, employability, curriculum design, human-AI complementarity, career self-efficacy, and the future value proposition of business education.
Selected publications →AI-Resilient Human Capital
Professional sales education as a vehicle for developing communication, judgment, discovery, persuasion, and other durable human capabilities.
Sales education →Consumer Behavior & Strategy
Generational consumption, digital enablement in foodservice, small-business strategy, and founder-led identity development.
Selected publications →Selected Publications
Download Full CV →Latent Chokepoints and Cascading Risk: Greenland and the Future of Arctic Supply-Chain Fragility
Maritime Policy & Management — accepted, 2026.
Interplanetary Logistics: Transportation Challenges and Supply Chain Lessons from Space Exploration
Transportation Journal — published 2026.
Rolling Preferences: Generational Drivers of Food-Truck Patronage and Small Business Strategy
Journal of Small Business Strategy — published 2026.
Displacement Value Theory: A Conceptual Framework for Marketing Higher Education in the Age of AI
Marketing Education Review — with Britton R. Leggett, published 2026.
AI Anxiety and the General Extended Technology Acceptance Model of e-Learning: A Conceptual Framework
Journal for Advancement of Marketing Education — published 2026.