All Outputs (34)

An analysis of operational behavioural factors and circular economy practices in SMEs: An emerging economy perspective (2021)
Journal Article
Luthra, S., Kumar, A., Sharma, M., Arturo Garza-Reyes, J., & Kumar, V. (2022). An analysis of operational behavioural factors and circular economy practices in SMEs: An emerging economy perspective. Journal of Business Research, 141, 321-336. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2021.12.014

Circular Economy (CE) principles are relatively unexplored, especially in emerging economies. None of the studies so far have also explored operational behavioural factors and CE practices in the context of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs).... Read More about An analysis of operational behavioural factors and circular economy practices in SMEs: An emerging economy perspective.

Multiple life-cycle products: A review of antecedents, outcomes, challenges, and benefits in a circular economy (2021)
Journal Article
Nag, U., Sharma, S. K., & Kumar, V. (2022). Multiple life-cycle products: A review of antecedents, outcomes, challenges, and benefits in a circular economy. Journal of Engineering Design, 33(3), 173-206. https://doi.org/10.1080/09544828.2021.2020219

The importance of design and its contribution to society is heavily emphasised in the literature. Multiple life-cycle products are based on the ideology value retention of components, products, and materials after its use phase, and utilised for the... Read More about Multiple life-cycle products: A review of antecedents, outcomes, challenges, and benefits in a circular economy.

Assessing the Impact of COVID-19 on Sustainable Food Supply Chains (2021)
Journal Article
Kazancoglu, Y., Ozbiltekin-Pala, M., Sezer, M. D., Ekren, B. Y., & Kumar, V. (2022). Assessing the Impact of COVID-19 on Sustainable Food Supply Chains. Sustainability, 14(1), Article 143. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14010143

Recently, it has become an important issue to ensure sustainability, especially in food supply chains, against the rapidly growing population, increasing demand, and sudden disruptions caused by uncertain times such as that caused by COVID-19. Since... Read More about Assessing the Impact of COVID-19 on Sustainable Food Supply Chains.

Adopting industry 4.0 by leveraging organisational factors (2021)
Journal Article
Srivastava, D. K., Kumar, V., Ekren, B. Y., Upadhyay, A., Tyagi, M., & Kumari, A. (2022). Adopting industry 4.0 by leveraging organisational factors. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 176, Article 121439. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2021.121439

The manufacturing sector needs to focus on social, environmental and technological factors to integrate Industry 4.0 in production planning, logistics and supply chains. Technical Education Institutes (TEIs) can play a key role in achieving this ambi... Read More about Adopting industry 4.0 by leveraging organisational factors.

Impact of different conflict levels on culturally diversified Japanese organisations’ performance under a collaborative conflict management style (2021)
Journal Article
Nguyen, G., & Kumar, V. (2021). Impact of different conflict levels on culturally diversified Japanese organisations’ performance under a collaborative conflict management style. International Journal of Organizational Business Excellence, 4(2), 71-94

With the increasing globalization, cultural diversity management has emerged as an important issue and it is regarded as a process that helps to maintain a positive workplace environment where the similarities and differences of individuals from diff... Read More about Impact of different conflict levels on culturally diversified Japanese organisations’ performance under a collaborative conflict management style.

Coupling of cryptocurrency trading with the sustainable environmental goals: Is it on the cards? (2021)
Journal Article
Khaled Mustafa, F. M., Lodh, S., Nandy, M., & Kumar, V. (2022). Coupling of cryptocurrency trading with the sustainable environmental goals: Is it on the cards?. Business Strategy and the Environment, 31(3), 1152-1168. https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.2947

Following the systematic review and bibliometric analysis of current literature, this paper attempts to investigate whether the wealth generated through cryptocurrency trading can assist in attaining the United Nation's (UN) Sustainable Development G... Read More about Coupling of cryptocurrency trading with the sustainable environmental goals: Is it on the cards?.

Analysis of critical success factors for implementing industry 4.0 integrated circular supply chain – moving towards sustainable operations (2021)
Journal Article
Kumar, A., Choudhary, S., Garza-Reyes, J. A., Kumar, V., Khan, S., & Mishra, N. (2023). Analysis of critical success factors for implementing industry 4.0 integrated circular supply chain – moving towards sustainable operations. Production Planning and Control, 34(10), 984-998. https://doi.org/10.1080/09537287.2021.1980905

Many threats, such as scarcity of sources and climate change, are forcing the business community to examine their commitment towards the environment and society. Because of this pressure, companies have started to implement long term sustainable prac... Read More about Analysis of critical success factors for implementing industry 4.0 integrated circular supply chain – moving towards sustainable operations.

Impact of I4.0 technologies and their interoperability on performance: Future pathways for supply chain resilience post-COVID-19 (2021)
Journal Article
Frederico, G., Kumar, V., Garza-Reyes, J. A., Kumar, A., & Agarwal, R. (2023). Impact of I4.0 technologies and their interoperability on performance: Future pathways for supply chain resilience post-COVID-19. International Journal of Logistics Management, The, 34(4), 1020-1049. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJLM-03-2021-0181

Purpose – This study aims to investigate the impact of I4.0’s technologies and their interoperability on Supply Chains (SCs) performance and how the integration of such technologies and their interoperability can create pathways for SCs resilience po... Read More about Impact of I4.0 technologies and their interoperability on performance: Future pathways for supply chain resilience post-COVID-19.

Understanding the role of digital technologies in supply chain risks management (2021)
Book Chapter
Yang, J., Kumar, V., Ekren, B., & Kuzmin, E. (2021). Understanding the role of digital technologies in supply chain risks management. In V. Kumar, J. Rezaei, V. Akberdina, & E. Kuzmin (Eds.), Digital Transformation in Industry. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73261-5

Supply chain risks have been regarded as one of the most significant threats to business continuity. Digital technology is considered to reform human production and manufacturing methods. In the recent wake of COVID-19, disruptive digital technologie... Read More about Understanding the role of digital technologies in supply chain risks management.

Impact of new technology on sustainability of supply chains: Empirical evidence from manufacturing SMEs in China (2021)
Book Chapter
Shi, R., Kumar, V., & Ekren, B. (2021). Impact of new technology on sustainability of supply chains: Empirical evidence from manufacturing SMEs in China. In V. Kumar, J. Rezaei, V. Akberdina, & E. Kuzmin (Eds.), Digital Transformation in Industry: Trends, Management, Strategies. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73261-5

New manufacturing technology can provide useful competitive advantages for enterprises to deal with fierce competition, and help them look for a better solution to production and operation management improving the quality of product services. New tec... Read More about Impact of new technology on sustainability of supply chains: Empirical evidence from manufacturing SMEs in China.

Co-creating a sustainable regional brand from multiple sub-brands: The Andaman Tourism Cluster of Thailand (2021)
Journal Article
Pongsakornrungsilp, S., Pongsakornrungsilp, P., Pusaksrikit, T., Wichasin, P., & Kumar, V. (2021). Co-creating a sustainable regional brand from multiple sub-brands: The Andaman Tourism Cluster of Thailand. Sustainability, 13(16), Article 9409. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13169409

The purpose of this study was to explore how a regional brand can be co-created among different cities by employing the concept of place branding and brand culture. The Andaman Tourism Cluster of Thailand (ATC) generates the most tourism revenue in T... Read More about Co-creating a sustainable regional brand from multiple sub-brands: The Andaman Tourism Cluster of Thailand.

Impact of the strategic sourcing process on the supply chain response to the COVID-19 effects (2021)
Journal Article
Frederico, G., Kumar, V., & Garza-Reyes, J. A. (2021). Impact of the strategic sourcing process on the supply chain response to the COVID-19 effects. Business Process Management Journal, 27(6), 1775-1803. https://doi.org/10.1108/BPMJ-01-2021-0050

Purpose: This research investigates the impact of the strategic sourcing process on the supply chain response to COVID-19. The paper presents practitioners' perspectives (experts in supply chain management, especially involved in the procurement fiel... Read More about Impact of the strategic sourcing process on the supply chain response to the COVID-19 effects.

Future of engineering education: Cyber physical systems engineering (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Ekren, B. Y., & Kumar, V. (2021). Future of engineering education: Cyber physical systems engineering. In Industrial Engineering in the Internet-of-Things World (45-54). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76724-2_4

Recent Industry 4.0 developments have created disruptive changes in industries. It has also changed the way people work and the required skills of work-force for the future. This new technological advancement has created requirement of workforce comb... Read More about Future of engineering education: Cyber physical systems engineering.

Digital transformation in industry trends, management, strategies (2021)
Book
Kumar, V., Rezaei, J., Akberdina, V., & Kuzmin, E. (Eds.). (2021). Digital transformation in industry trends, management, strategies. Russia: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73261-5

The emergence of advanced technologies has marked the new era of global development. The large-scale use of digital and information-communication solutions is fundamentally changing social life and restructuring economic relationships. Digitalization... Read More about Digital transformation in industry trends, management, strategies.

Issues and analysis of critical success factors for the sustainable initiatives in the supply chain during COVID- 19 pandemic outbreak in India: A case study (2021)
Journal Article
Rajak, S., Mathiyazhagan, K., Agarwal, V., Sivakumar, K., Kumar, V., & Appolloni, A. (2022). Issues and analysis of critical success factors for the sustainable initiatives in the supply chain during COVID- 19 pandemic outbreak in India: A case study. Research in Transportation Economics, 93, 101114. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.retrec.2021.101114

The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has severely affected the supply chain all over. A major challenge for the supply chain (SC) is to address this disruption risk and bring sustainability to SC. The objective of this paper is to identify the stakeho... Read More about Issues and analysis of critical success factors for the sustainable initiatives in the supply chain during COVID- 19 pandemic outbreak in India: A case study.

Assessing the environmental impacts of agrifood production (2021)
Journal Article
Jirapornvaree, I., Suppadit, T., & Kumar, V. (2022). Assessing the environmental impacts of agrifood production. Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy, 24, 1099–1112. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10098-021-02153-5

Agriculture, forestry, and other land use approximately contribute to 24 percent of 2010 global greenhouse gas (GHGs) emissions. This study, therefore, focuses on assessing the environmental impacts of jasmine rice production. The life cycle assessme... Read More about Assessing the environmental impacts of agrifood production.

Examining the impact of Brexit on supply chain risk management: Evidence from the UK manufacturing sector (2021)
Journal Article
Jucyte, A., Kumar, V., & Ruan, X. (2021). Examining the impact of Brexit on supply chain risk management: Evidence from the UK manufacturing sector. International Journal of Organizational Business Excellence, 4(1), 41-62

The 2016 Brexit Referendum in the UK resulted in a withdrawal from the EU that has brought a lot of uncertainty to the supply chains (SC) in the manufacturing sector. The manufacturing sector that operates in a highly integrated EU market and relies... Read More about Examining the impact of Brexit on supply chain risk management: Evidence from the UK manufacturing sector.

Triads in sustainable supply-chain perspective: Why is a collaboration mechanism needed? (2021)
Journal Article
Jraisat, L., Upadhyay, A., Ghalia, T., Jresseit, M., Kumar, V., & Sarpong, D. (2023). Triads in sustainable supply-chain perspective: Why is a collaboration mechanism needed?. International Journal of Production Research, 61(14), 4725-4741. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207543.2021.1936263

This research explores focal actors and their dyads, addressing their sustainable collaboration in triads and its relevance in the agri-triads that share information along the supply chains. We employ a multiple-case approach and presents two triads... Read More about Triads in sustainable supply-chain perspective: Why is a collaboration mechanism needed?.

A novel business strategies framework of do-it-yourself practices in logistics to minimise environmental waste and improve performance (2021)
Journal Article
Upadhyay, A., Kumar, A., Kumar, V., & Alzaben, A. (in press). A novel business strategies framework of do-it-yourself practices in logistics to minimise environmental waste and improve performance. Business Strategy and the Environment, https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.2846

The transportation sector is consuming a high quantity of oil and producing air pollution, CO2 and allergies, as well as promoting the storage of goods in traditional warehouses. It is not only creating waste and environmental pollution but also incr... Read More about A novel business strategies framework of do-it-yourself practices in logistics to minimise environmental waste and improve performance.

The art of survival: Tourism businesses in Thailand recovering from COVID-19 through brand management (2021)
Journal Article
Pongsakornrungsilp, S., Pongsakornrungsilp, P., Kumar, V., & Maswongssa, B. (2021). The art of survival: Tourism businesses in Thailand recovering from COVID-19 through brand management. Sustainability, 13(12), Article 6690. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13126690

The purpose of this study is to employ the existing theory on crisis management and corporate branding in a service context to explore how tourism businesses in Thailand can recover from the crisis caused by the impact of COVID-19. To manage the impa... Read More about The art of survival: Tourism businesses in Thailand recovering from COVID-19 through brand management.