Professor Vikas Kumar's Outputs (195)

Sustainability concerns on consumers’ attitude towards short food supply chains: An empirical investigation (2021)
Journal Article

While industrialized agro-food supply systems have gained tremendous success in recent decades, it has been increasingly criticized for its adverse environmental and social impact. Amongst this criticism, Short Food Supply Chains (SFSCs) have emerged... Read More about Sustainability concerns on consumers’ attitude towards short food supply chains: An empirical investigation.

Developing A sustainability framework for Industry 4.0 (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

With the development in industrialization, sustainability has emerged as a major issue in the global market. Ignorance of sustainability issues in any organization leads to huge financial losses and market reputation. With the development of new tech... Read More about Developing A sustainability framework for Industry 4.0.

Omni-chanel network design towards circular economy under inventory share policies (2021)
Journal Article

In this paper, we study inventory share policies in an omni-channel supply network, to contribute to the circular economy (CE) concept. Lateral inventory share implementation provides flexibility and profitability in the supply chain by allowing inve... Read More about Omni-chanel network design towards circular economy under inventory share policies.

Exploring barriers and drivers to the implementation of circular economy practices in the mining industry (2021)
Journal Article

The circular economy is a widely discussed topic in the field of Eco-industrial initiatives and environmentally responsive economies. The current economic and industrial model which is termed as the produce-use-dispose model is a linear model in whic... Read More about Exploring barriers and drivers to the implementation of circular economy practices in the mining industry.

Blockchain technology and the circular economy: Implications for sustainability and social responsibility (2021)
Journal Article

Blockchain technology is a revolutionary new protocol for sharing and updating information by linking ledgers or databases in a decentralised, peer-to-peer, open-access network. Blockchain is designed to ensure the data is stored and updated in a sec... Read More about Blockchain technology and the circular economy: Implications for sustainability and social responsibility.

Relationship between routines of supplier selection and evaluation, risk perception and propensity to form buyer–supplier partnerships (2021)
Journal Article

Supply chain partnership is viewed as an important contributor to superior competitiveness; yet, the knowledge of ex-ante factors contributing to the deployment of supply chain partnership is nascent. This article examines the influence of the curren... Read More about Relationship between routines of supplier selection and evaluation, risk perception and propensity to form buyer–supplier partnerships.

Adjusting to the new normal: Challenges of the food sector in the wake of COVID-19 (2020)
Journal Article

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has affected more than 180 countries around the globe causing severe business disruptions. Lockdown in many countries has led to panic buying and shortages of food, medicines, personal protective equipment, raw materials... Read More about Adjusting to the new normal: Challenges of the food sector in the wake of COVID-19.

Review on multi-criteria decision analysis in sustainable manufacturing decision making (2020)
Journal Article

At present sustainable development, assessment of sustainable manufacturing practices, and prioritisation of barriers, drivers, and indicators have become complex due to the involvement of existing benchmarks like social, economical, technical, and e... Read More about Review on multi-criteria decision analysis in sustainable manufacturing decision making.

A machine learning based approach for predicting blockchain adoption in supply chain (2020)
Journal Article

The purpose of this paper is to provide a decision support system for managers to predict an organization’s probability of successful blockchain adoption using a machine learning technique. The study conceptualizes blockchain technology as a dynamic... Read More about A machine learning based approach for predicting blockchain adoption in supply chain.

Exploring the drivers and barriers to green supply chain management implementation: A study of independent UK restaurants (2020)
Journal Article

This is an exploratory study into the drivers and barriers faced by independent restaurants when implementing green supply chain management (GSCM) practices. There is a limited evidence in the literature that attempts to explore GSCM implementation p... Read More about Exploring the drivers and barriers to green supply chain management implementation: A study of independent UK restaurants.

Managing supply chains for sustainable operations in the era of industry 4.0 and circular economy: Analysis of barriers (2020)
Journal Article

Organizations are struggling to leverage emerging opportunities for maintaining sustainability in the global markets due to many barriers in the era of Industry 4.0 and circular economy. The main aim of this study is to analyze these barriers to impr... Read More about Managing supply chains for sustainable operations in the era of industry 4.0 and circular economy: Analysis of barriers.

Deploying Kaizen events in the manufacturing industry: An investigation into managerial factors (2020)
Journal Article

Despite the extensive research on Continuous Improvement (CI), limited reflection has been reported regarding the managerial factors needed to successfully deploy Kaizen Events (KEs). This study investigates various managerial aspects that affect the... Read More about Deploying Kaizen events in the manufacturing industry: An investigation into managerial factors.

Benchmarking of sustainability to assess practices and performances of the management of the end of life cycle of electronic products: A study of Brazilian manufacturing companies (2020)
Journal Article

The relentless pursuit of lower production costs causes companies to invest in more efficient production systems so that they can remain economically competitive, while the actions focusing on more sustainable operations from an environmental point o... Read More about Benchmarking of sustainability to assess practices and performances of the management of the end of life cycle of electronic products: A study of Brazilian manufacturing companies.

A systematic literature review of supply chain resilience in small–medium enterprises (SMEs): A call for further research (2020)
Journal Article

In this article, with the increased disruptions faced by businesses and the occurrence of natural disasters in the world, supply chain resilience remains a major challenge especially for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Despite the relevan... Read More about A systematic literature review of supply chain resilience in small–medium enterprises (SMEs): A call for further research.

A framework to achieve sustainability in manufacturing organisations of developing economies using industry 4.0 technologies’ enablers (2020)
Journal Article

Sustainability has emerged as one of the most important issues in the international market. Ignorance of sustainability aspects has led many manufacturing organisations to face huge financial losses. It has been observed that developed nations have s... Read More about A framework to achieve sustainability in manufacturing organisations of developing economies using industry 4.0 technologies’ enablers.

Cyber resiliency for digital enterprises: A strategic leadership perspective (2020)
Journal Article

As organizations increasingly view information as one of their most valuable assets, which supports the creation and distribution of their products and services, information security will be an integral part of the design and operation of organizatio... Read More about Cyber resiliency for digital enterprises: A strategic leadership perspective.

A multi-objective mixed-integer linear model for sustainable fruit closed-loop supply chain network (2020)
Journal Article

Purpose: This paper aims to present a closed-loop supply chain (CLSC) optimization problem for a perishable agricultural product to achieve three pillars of sustainability, including minimizing total network costs and carbon dioxide emissions from di... Read More about A multi-objective mixed-integer linear model for sustainable fruit closed-loop supply chain network.

Performance measurement for supply chains in the industry 4.0 era: A balanced scorecard approach (2020)
Journal Article

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present a theoretical approach based on the balanced scorecard (BSC) with regard to performance measurement – PM in supply chains for the Industry 4.0 era. Design/methodology/approach: This paper combines the... Read More about Performance measurement for supply chains in the industry 4.0 era: A balanced scorecard approach.

Benchmarking of cleaner production in sand mould casting companies (2020)
Journal Article

Purpose: The purpose of this research was to develop new sustainability indicators consistent with the sand mould casting industry, through benchmarking of cleaner production (CP), in order to identify the levels of practice and performance of compan... Read More about Benchmarking of cleaner production in sand mould casting companies.

An investigation of performance of nascent manufacturing firms (2020)
Journal Article

To understand the context for firms being created in the manufacturing space we explore the factors affecting performance by applying Gartner et al.’s overarching theoretical framework. We investigate the phenomenon of nascent entrepreneurship from a... Read More about An investigation of performance of nascent manufacturing firms.