Rate My Professor Jon Kirchoff

Jon F. Kirchoff, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management and Chair of the Department of Marketing & Supply Chain Management in the College of Business at East Carolina University, within the Business & Economics faculty. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee and joined East Carolina University in 2011 as an assistant professor, advancing to associate professor and assuming the role of department chair in April 2023. Kirchoff also serves as a Research Associate for the Bureau of Business Research in the College of Business. His primary research specializations include sustainable supply chain management, healthcare supply chain management, global supply chain management, and functional integration. These interests drive his contributions to understanding supply chain resilience, environmental responsibility, and inter-firm coordination in business contexts.

Kirchoff has published extensively in top-tier journals such as the Journal of Operations Management, Journal of Supply Chain Management, International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management, Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management, and Harvard Business Review, with his work garnering over 2,100 citations. Notable publications include "Supply chain agility and sustainability performance: A configurational approach to sustainable supply chain management practices" (2023), "When brands behave badly: signaling and spillover effects of unethical behavior in the context of triple bottom line sustainability" (2023), "Understanding the dynamics of global supply chain sustainability initiatives: The role of institutional distance from the buyer's perspective" (2022), and "Environmental differentiation from a supply chain practice view perspective" (2021). Prior to academia, he held positions in global purchasing and logistics management for 15 years at Fortune 500 companies, including Mercedes-Benz U.S. International and EchoStar Technologies (Dish Network). Additionally, he presents for the North Carolina Association of Certified Public Accountants and lectures in the Department of Business Administration at the University of Verona, Italy, while delivering talks on supply chain topics across North Carolina, the U.S., and Europe.