Associate Professor of Operations Management聽Joy Field聽has received the highest honor bestowed by the Decision Sciences Institute (DSI), a global society of more than 1,800 scholars dedicated to fostering knowledge that improves managerial decisions.
Field was named the 2018 co-recipient of the Dennis E. Grawoig Distinguished Service Award, named for a founder of the 50-year-old Institute. The other scholar so honored at DSI鈥檚 November 18 annual conference in Chicago was Morgan Swink of Texas Christian University.
This is a 鈥渉ighly competitive distinction鈥� awarded to those who have made a 鈥渃ontinual impact on the Institute and the disciplines鈥� it serves, said the organization鈥檚 president, Johnny Rungtusanatham of Ohio State University.
鈥淒SI has been a major contributor to all aspects of my professional development鈥攑ublishing, teaching, and service鈥攁nd I am delighted to have been chosen to receive this award from among the many colleagues who have also contributed so much to DSI,鈥� said Field, whose two decades of involvement in the Institute have included roles as associate editor of聽Decision Sciences Journal, the Institute鈥檚 flagship journal, as well as vice president and president of the DSI Northeast region.
Field鈥檚 own research has focused on the design and management of processes to improve operations, which dovetails closely with the Institute鈥檚 mission to improve decision making about such matters as operations performance. In 1998, she also won DSI鈥檚 doctoral dissertation competition, and three years later received the organization鈥檚 Best Theoretical/Empirical Paper Award.
鈥擶illiam Bole