Fargo, N.D. – Chanchai Tangpong, associate professor of management at NDSU, co-wrote a paper that has been selected for the Best Theoretical/Empirical Paper Award Winner for the 2011 Decision Sciences Institute Conference to be held in Boston Nov. 19-22.

The paper, “Synergistic Use of Experiment and Survey for Cross-Level Behavioral OM Research,” was written with Kuo-Ting Hung at Suffolk University. It identifies cross-level fallacies as a major problem in behavioral research on operations and supply chains. To prevent such fallacies, Tangpong and Hung creatively developed a methodological approach based on a synergistic use of experiment and survey research methods.

The Best Theoretical/Empirical Paper Award has been received previously by scholars from major research institutions such as Carnegie-Mellon University, Ohio State University and University of Minnesota.