Terry Esper, associate professor in the supply chain management department and executive director of the Supply Chain Management Research Center at the Sam M. Walton College of Business, has been named associate editor of the Journal of Supply Chain Management.

"This is an outstanding acknowledgement of Terry's excellent work in supply chain management, and just another recognition that our department is doing some of the most advanced research in the field right here at Walton College," said Matt Waller, chair of the supply chain management department.

Esper earned his Ph.D. in business administration from the Walton College in August 2003, after getting his MBA from the Walton College in May 1998. He received a bachelor's degree in mathematics in May 1996 from Philander Smith College in Little Rock, where he graduated cum laude.

Before joining the Walton College faculty in January, Esper was the William J. Taylor Endowed Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management at the University of Tennessee. He had taught at Tennessee since August 2003.

The stated mission of the Journal of Supply Chain Management is to be the journal of choice among supply chain management scholars across disciplines, by attracting high-quality, high-impact behavioral research focusing on theory-building and empirical methodologies.