Ta-Wei (Daniel) Kao

• Ph.D. – Operations Management, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York
• MBA – Business Administration, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
• B.S. – Public Administration, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan

Research themes: Buyer-supplier relationships, Business value of information technology

Research topics: 1. Supply chain networks and productive efficiency, 2. Crowdfunding performance and social ties

Supply Chain/Transport/Logistics

• Kao, T.W., Su, H.-C., Ro, Y.K., and Fu, W., “Love thy Neighbor, but don’t pull down your hedge: The Influence of Dependence Dynamics on Supplier Productivity”, Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management, in press, 2024.
• Kao, T.W., Zhang, L., Shao, B.B.M., and Choi, T.Y., “Social Ties among Fundraisers and Crowdfunding Performance: The Impact of Tie Strength and Network Closure,” Journal of Management Information Systems, vol. 41, no.1, 2024. (Financial Times 50 Journal)
• Kao, T.W., Chen, Y.-S., and Su, H.-C., “The impact of network connectedness and centeredness on productive efficiency”, International Journal of Operations & Production Management, vol. 44, no. 1, 2024. 
• Simpson, N.C., Tacheva, Z., and Kao, T.W., “Semi-directedness: New network concepts for supply chain research”, International Journal of Production Economics, vol. 256, 2023.
• Kao, T.W., Hsiao, S.H., Su, H.-C., and Ku, C.H., “Deriving Execution Effectiveness of Crowdfunding Projects from the Fundraiser Network,” Journal of Management Information Systems, vol. 39, no.1, 2022 (Financial Times 50 Journal)
• Jhang, S.S., Su, H.-C., Kao, T.W., “Obtaining trade credit from suppliers: An interdisciplinary perspective,” International Journal of Operations & Production Management, vol. 41, no.8, 2021.
• Su, H.-C., Kao, T.W., and Linderman, K., “Where in the Supply Chain Network does ISO 9001 improve firm productivity?” European Journal of Operational Research, vol. 283, no. 2, 2020.
• Hsiao, S.H., Wang, Y.Y., Wang, T.W., and Kao, T.W., “How Social Media Shapes Fashion Industry? The Spillover Effects between Private Labels and National Brands,” Industrial Marketing Management, vol. 86, 2019.
• Kao, T.W., Su, H.-C., and Chen, Y.-S., “Curvilinear Relationship between Structural Embeddedness and Productive Efficiency: An Exploratory Study,” International Journal of Production Economics, vol. 212, 2019. 
• Su, H.-C., Chen, Y.-S., and Kao, T.W., “Enhancing Supplier Development: An Efficiency Perspective,” Journal of Business Logistics, vol. 39, no. 4, 2018. (SCM Journal List)
• Kao, T.W., Simpson, N.C., Shao, B.B.M., and Lin, W.T., “Relating Supply Network Structure to Productive Efficiency: A Multi-Stage Empirical Investigation,” European Journal of Operational Research, vol. 259, no. 2, 2017.
• Lin, W.T., Kao, T.W., Sharman, R., and Simpson, N.C., “The Complementarity and Substitutability Relationships between Information Technology and Benefits and Duration of Unemployment,” Decision Support Systems, vol. 90, 2016. 
• Kao, T.W. and Lin, W.T., “The Relationship between E-Service Quality and Brand Equity: A Simultaneous Equations System Approach,” Computers in Human Behavior, vol. 57, 2016, pp. 208-218. 
• Lin, W.T. and Kao, T.W., “The Partial Adjustment Valuation Approach with Dynamic and Variable Speeds of Adjustment to Evaluating and Measuring the Business Value of Information Technology,” European Journal of Operational Research, vol. 238, no. 1, 2014.
• Chang, H. H., Wang, H.W., and Kao, T.W., “The Determinants of Long-Term Relationship on Inter-Organizational Systems Performance,” Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing, vol. 25, no. 2, 2010.

• Kao, T.W., Zhang, L., Shao, B.B.M., and Choi, T.Y., “Social Ties among Fundraisers and Crowdfunding Performance: The Impact of Tie Strength and Network Closure,” the 33th Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) Annual Meeting, May 2023, Orlando, TX.
• Kao, T.W., Chen, Y.-S., and Su, H.-C., “Structural Embeddedness and Firm's Sustainability,” 2018 Informs International Conference, Taipei, Taiwan.
• Minas, J., Simpson, N.C., and Kao, T.W., “Quantifying the risk of defect propagation in a supply chain,” the 29th Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) Annual Meeting, May 2018, Houston, TX.
• Kao, T.W., Chen, Y.-S., and Su, H.-C., “The Impacts of Bargaining Power and Network Centrality on Seller-Buyer Dyads”, the 48th Decision Science Institute (DSI) Annual Meeting, November 2017, Washington D.C.
• Kao, T.W., Chen, Y.-S., and Su, H.-C., “The Effects of Network Structural Characteristics on Firm's Productivity Growth,” the 28th Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) Annual Meeting, May 2017, Seattle, WA.
• Kao, T.W., Chen, Y.-S., Su, H.-C. “The Effect of Network Structural Characteristics on Firm’s Productivity Growth Measured by Malmquist Index”, the 47th Decision Science Institute (DSI) Annual Meeting, November 2016, Austin, TX.
• Kao, T.W., Simpson, N.C., Shao, B.B.M., and Lin, W.T., “Analyzing Firm- and Chain-Level Productive Efficiencies in Supply Networks: A Two-Stage Empirical Investigation,” the 75th Academy of Management (AOM) Annual Meeting, August 2015, Vancouver, Canada.
• Simpson, N.C. and Kao, T.W., “Mapping Supply Chain Evolution and Risk: New Measures for Complex Network Structures,” the 26th Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) Annual Meeting, May 2015, Washington D.C.
• Kao, T.W., Lin, W.T., and Chang, H.H., “Managing Brand Equity in E-Banking: A Simultaneous Equations System Approach,” the 44th Decision Science Institute (DSI) Annual Meeting, November 2013, Baltimore, Maryland.
• Chang, H.H., Kao, T.W., and Chiou, J.T., “Quality of E-Service and Brand Equity on E-Banking,” the 72th Academy of Management (AOM) Annual Meeting, August 2012, Boston, Massachusetts.

• Honorable Mention, 7th Annual Undergraduate Supply Chain Case Competition March 27-30, 2019 (Team Advisor)
• Outstanding Reviewer – Electronic Commerce Research and Application, January 2018
• Honorable Mention, Institute for Supply Management (ISM) Best Paper Award, the 75th Academy of Management (AOM) Annual Meeting, Vancouver, Canada, 2015
• Best Interdisciplinary Paper Award, the 44th Decision Science Institute (DSI) Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, 2013
• Distinguished Alumni Award, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, 2013