Professor Nachiappan Subramanian
University of Sussex
Professor, Business & Management
United Kingdom
My co-authors include
Professor Naoufel Cheikhrouhou
Dr Svetlana Cicmil
Dr Peter S Hofman
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My Publications
Institutional and Relational antecedents for eco-innovations in Chinese supplier firms
Business Strategy and the Environment
June 2020
Disturbances to the supply chains of high-value manufacturing firms: comparison of the ...
International Journal of Production Research
May 2020
A multi-dimensional decision framework for modular value transfer activity
Production Planning & Control
March 2020
Role of traditional Chinese philosophies and new product development under circular eco...
International Journal of Production Research
December 2019
The soft side of knowledge transfer partnerships between universities and small to medi...
Production Planning & Control
June 2019
Environmental improvement initiatives in the coal mining industry: maximisation of the ...
Production Planning & Control
April 2019
Green human resource management and the enablers of green organisational culture: Enhan...
Business Strategy and the Environment
February 2019
Out-in, in-out buyer quality innovation pathways for new product outcome: Empirical evi...
International Journal of Production Economics
January 2019
Data driven hybrid evolutionary analytical approach for multi objective location alloca...
Computers & Operations Research
October 2018
Decision-making in cold chain logistics using data analytics: a literature review
The International Journal of Logistics Management
August 2018
Strategies and practices for inclusive manufacturing: twenty-first-century sustainable ...
International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing
April 2018
A two-dimensional, two-level framework for achieving corporate sustainable development:...
Business Strategy and the Environment
April 2018
Optimisation of transportation service network using κ -node large neighbourhood search
Computers & Operations Research
January 2018
Sustainable decision model for liner shipping industry
Computers & Operations Research
January 2018
Can Your Network Make You Happy? Entrepreneurs’ Business Network Utilization and Subjec...
British Journal of Management
December 2017
The social preferences of local citizens and spontaneous volunteerism during disaster r...
International Journal of Production Research
December 2017
An examination of drivers and barriers to reducing carbon emissions in China’s manufact...
The International Journal of Logistics Management
November 2017
Dynamic temporary blood facility location-allocation during and post-disaster periods
Annals of Operations Research
October 2017
Implementation of lean manufacturing and lean audit system in an auto parts manufacturi...
International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing
July 2017
Logistics and cloud computing service providers’ cooperation: a resilience perspective
Production Planning & Control
July 2017
Sustainable global operations management and frugal innovative sustainable production m...
Sustainable Production and Consumption
July 2017
Port sustainable services innovation: Ningbo port users’ expectation
Sustainable Production and Consumption
July 2017
Review of sustainable service-based business models in the Chinese truck sector
Sustainable Production and Consumption
July 2017
Short-term versus long-term benefits: Balanced sustainability framework and research pr...
Sustainable Production and Consumption
July 2017
Integrated optimization model and methodology for plastics recycling: Indian empirical ...
Journal of Cleaner Production
June 2017
Returnable transport packaging in developing countries: drivers, barriers and business ...
Production Planning & Control
May 2017
Improving supply chain performance through management capabilities
Production Planning & Control
May 2017
Impact of customer loyalty and service operations on customer behaviour and firm perfor...
Production Planning & Control
May 2017
Multi-agent system with iterative auction mechanism for master bay plan problem in mari...
Maritime Policy & Management
May 2017
Barriers to coastal shipping development: An Indian perspective
Transportation Research Part D Transport and Environment
May 2017
Information technology for competitive advantage within logistics and supply chains: A ...
Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review
March 2017
Role of social media in retail network operations and marketing to enhance customer sat...
International Journal of Operations & Production Management
January 2017
Supply Chain Management in the Big Data Era
January 2017
Closed loop supply chain networks: Designs for energy and time value efficiency
International Journal of Production Economics
January 2017
A new fast large neighbourhood search for service network design with asset balance con...
December 2016
Data driven safe vehicle routing analytics: a differential evolution algorithm to reduc...
Annals of Operations Research
October 2016
Cold chain configuration design: location-allocation decision-making using coordination...
Annals of Operations Research
October 2016
4th party logistics service providers and industrial cluster competitiveness
Industrial Management & Data Systems
August 2016
Composite particle algorithm for sustainable integrated dynamic ship routing and schedu...
Computers & Industrial Engineering
June 2016
Distributed hybrid multiagent task allocation approach for dual-nozzle 3D printers in m...
International Journal of Production Research
April 2016
Influence of non-price and environmental sustainability factors on truckload procuremen...
Annals of Operations Research
March 2016
Innovative service satisfaction and customer promotion behaviour in the Chinese budget ...
International Journal of Production Economics
January 2016
Composite sustainable manufacturing practice and performance framework: Chinese auto-pa...
International Journal of Production Economics
December 2015
Supply chain resilience: role of complexities and strategies
International Journal of Production Research
November 2015
The relationship between supply chain manager capabilities and performance: empirical e...
Production Planning & Control
October 2015
Sustainable production and consumption in the automotive sector: Integrated review fram...
Sustainable Production and Consumption
October 2015
Viability of remanufacturing practice: a strategic decision making framework for Chines...
Journal of Cleaner Production
October 2015
Sourcing complexity in the Chinese manufacturing sector: An assessment of intangible fa...
International Journal of Production Economics
August 2015
Service supply chain environmental performance evaluation using grey based hybrid MCDM ...
International Journal of Production Economics
August 2015
An Optimization Model for Sustainability Program
Annals of Operations Research
June 2015
Green competence framework: evidence from China
The International Journal of Human Resource Management
June 2015
Cleaner supply-chain management practices for twenty-first-century organizational compe...
International Journal of Production Economics
June 2015
Review of Full Truckload Transportation Service Procurement
Transport Reviews
May 2015
The Impact of Integrated Practices of Lean, Green, and Social Management Systems on Fir...
Sustainability
March 2015
An innovative framework for performance analysis of members of supply chains
Benchmarking An International Journal
March 2015
Green supply chain collaboration and incentives: Current trends and future directions
Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review
February 2015
Reprint of “Integration of logistics and cloud computing service providers: Cost and gr...
Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review
February 2015
Product delivery service provider selection and customer satisfaction in the era of int...
International Journal of Production Economics
January 2015
Integration of logistics and cloud computing service providers: Cost and green benefits...
Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review
October 2014
Combined location and routing problems for designing the quality-dependent and multi-pr...
Journal of the Operational Research Society
June 2014
Influence of eco-innovation on Indian manufacturing sector sustainable performance
International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology
April 2014
Reverse logistics in the Chinese auto-parts firms: implementation framework development...
International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology
April 2014
Factors for implementing end-of-life product reverse logistics in the Chinese manufactu...
International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology
April 2014
Critical barriers in implementing reverse logistics in the Chinese manufacturing sectors
International Journal of Production Economics
January 2014
Customer satisfaction and competitiveness in the Chinese E-retailing: Structural equati...
Expert Systems with Applications
January 2014
Sourcing complexity factors on contractual relationship: Chinese suppliers’ perspective
Production & Manufacturing Research
January 2014
Composite practices to improve sustainability: A framework and evidence from Chinese au...
December 2013
Knowledge management in the Chinese local beer market: A case study
December 2013
Supply Chain Complexity and Strategy
September 2013
WITHDRAWN: Quality issues in outsourcing to China: Is it still a sustainable competitiv...
Journal of Engineering and Technology Management
August 2013
Factors for implementing end-of-life computer recycling operations in reverse supply ch...
International Journal of Production Economics
November 2012
A review of applications of Analytic Hierarchy Process in operations management
International Journal of Production Economics
August 2012
Key success factors and their performance implications in the Indian third-party logist...
International Journal of Production Research
May 2012
Indian textile suppliers' sustainability evaluation using the grey approach
International Journal of Production Economics
February 2012
Reverse logistics network design: a review on strategic perspective
International Journal of Logistics Systems and Management
January 2012
Supplier assessment based on corporate social responsibility criteria in Indian automot...
International Journal of Sustainable Engineering
December 2011
Balancing multi-robot prioritized task allocation: A simulation approach
December 2011
Supply chain collaboration performance metrics: a conceptual framework
Benchmarking An International Journal
October 2011
Balancing task allocation in multi-robot systems using K -means clustering and auction ...
Expert Systems with Applications
June 2011
Linking Success Factors to Financial Performance
American Journal of Applied Sciences
March 2011
The impact of marketing capability, operations capability and diversification strategy ...
Industrial Marketing Management
February 2010
A Heuristic for Heterogeneous Capacitated Pick-up and Delivery Logistics Problems with ...
January 2010
Examining the interrelationships between supply chain integration scope and supply chai...
International Journal of Production Research
December 2009
Efficient mechanism development for multirobot coordination
International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering
January 2008
Operating parameters for a single-vendor multiple-buyers Vendor Managed Inventory Syste...
International Journal of Operational Research
January 2008
A genetic algorithm for optimal operating parameters of VMI system in a two-echelon sup...
European Journal of Operational Research
November 2007
Knowledge management system for operating parameters in two-echelon VMI supply chains
International Journal of Production Research
June 2007
A design of experiment based procedure for real-time forecasting
International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering
January 2007
Development of efficient combinatorial auction mechanism for airport slot allocation
International Journal of Services and Operations Management
January 2007
Pricing in a vendor managed inventory system
International Journal of Logistics Systems and Management
January 2006
Big Data Analytics
Big Data Analytics
Information Technology Enabled Vendor Managed Inventory in Modelling Supply Chain Issues
