Quinnipiac Professor Henry Adobor Earns Best Paper Award

Quinnipiac University Professor Henry Adobor, of Cheshire, earns best paper award from Northeast Decision Sciences Institute

HAMDEN, Connecticut – Henry Adobor, professor of entrepreneurship and strategy at Quinnipiac University, recently earned the Bryant University Best Paper Award in Supply Chain Management and Logistics from the Northeast Decision Sciences Institute.

The Cheshire resident’s paper was titled, “Supply Chain Resilience: An Adaptive Cycle Approach.”

“This paper focuses on resilience in supply chains,” Adobor said. “Supply chains are the backbone of the economy and their stability is important. What we are witnessing with COVID-19 demonstrates that supply chain disruptions can be devastating for firms and the economy. Building resilient supply chains may buffer them and partially protect supply chains from disruptions.

“My paper argues that building resilient systems requires us to think across long periods and scales,” he added. “Events happening at scales beyond the control of firms may nonetheless have repercussions for them. More importantly, the paper shows that sometimes disruptions offer opportunities for renewal and regeneration.”

Adobor, who joined Quinnipiac in 1999, has a bachelor’s degree in business from the University of Ghana, an MBA from Baruch College (City University of New York) and a doctorate in business from the John Molson School of Business at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada.

Adobor also won the Best Theory Paper Award from the Northeast Decision Sciences Institute in 2017. That paper about supply chain management has since been published in the International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications. In addition, Adobor was awarded an Albert Schweitzer Fellowship in 2017. As part of that fellowship, he is studying the impact and dynamics of illegal artisanal mining in Ghana.