Rate My Professor Richard Tarpey

Tarpey earned his Doctor of Business Administration from the University of South Florida in 2018 and a Master of Business Administration from Middle Tennessee State University. Bringing over 30 years of professional experience in labor and asset management, his academic research focuses on labor management, productivity, scheduling, and staffing, with applications in supply chain and healthcare management. His publications appear in peer-reviewed journals including the Journal of Service Theory and Practice, Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Journal of Small Business Strategy, and International Journal of Logistics Economics and Globalisation. Key works include “Comparing three contract types to optimize profits in service firm – digital service platform relationships” (Journal of Service Theory and Practice, 2024), “Nurse and Staff Centralized Scheduling Dissatisfaction: Perceptions of Organizational Justice” (Academy of Management Proceedings, 2024), “Is Paper Stationery or Agile? An Investigation of Dynamic Capabilities in the Printing Paper Supply Chain” (Journal of Small Business Strategy, 2023), “Antecedents to Logistic Clustering” (International Journal of Logistics Economics and Globalisation, 2022), “Project management education through simulation: Achieving reliability, relevance, and reality in a ‘messy’ environment” (Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, 2022), and “Engineering Innovative Clinical Resource Management By Design: A guided Emergent Search Through a Complex Adaptive System of Systems” (IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 2021). In 2023, Tarpey and Murat Arik received the Institute for Global Business Research Conference Distinguished Research Award for their collaborative paper.