Global Value Chains, Flexibility and Sustainability / Flexible Systems Management (PDF)

impact of sustainable supply chain management, digital business and innovation management practices on innovation and productivity. She is also the Research Director, Future of Innovation and Innovative Systems at the Centre for Business and Social Innovation, UTS Business. Dr. Agarwal has published in several top-tier journals, including Decision Sciences, International Journal of Production Economics, International Journal of Production Research, International Journal of Operations and Production Management, and is the editor of The Handbook of Service Innovation. Currently she is the editor of the upcoming Routledge Companion to Global Value Chains: Reinterpreting and reimagining mega trends in the world economy, and guest editor of the special issue of the Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management titled "The Future of Manufacturing Global Value Chains, Smart Specialization and Flexibility" by Springer. Sushil is AbdulazizAlsagar chair professor (professor of strategic, flexible systems and technology management), and chair of the Strategic Management Group at the Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. He has served as a visiting professor and delivered seminars in numerous leading universities, including Kyoto University, University of Minnesota, Stevens Institute of Technology, NJ, University of Lethbridge, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, among others. He is an active researcher and has supervised more than 60 doctoral dissertations. He has written 20 books in the areas of flexibility, strategy, systems thinking, and technology management, and published over 300 papers in various refereed journals and conferences. He has pioneered the area of "flexible systems management" and made original contributions to the field of knowledge in the form of interpretive approaches in management. He is the founder editor-in-chief of the Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management and serves on the editorial boards of leading international journals. He is the founder president of the professional body, "Global Institute of Flexible Systems Management." He has acted as a consultant to both governmental and industrial organizations, and has served as an independent director on the boards of RINL and HSCC. Sanjay Dhir is an assistant professor of Strategic Management at the Department of Management Studies, IIT, Delhi. He is also the coordinator for the Executive MBA (Technology Management) at DMS, IIT, Delhi, and Director, GIFT School of Strategic Alliances Management. He is a fellow (PhD) of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Lucknow. He worked at Mahindra and Mahindra Ltd (Automotive), R&D Department, Nasik, for three years. He has published several research papers in leading international journals, including case studies at Richard Ivey School of Business, Western Ontario jointly distributed by Ivey and Harvard Business School. His research papers have been presented and published as conference proceedings at several prestigious academic conferences such as Academy of Management (AoM), Academy of International Business (AIB), Strategic Management Society (SMS), Southern Management Association (SMA), International Simulation Conference of India (ISCI, IIT, Mumbai) and Strategic Management Forum (SMF, IIM Lucknow). His major areas of interest are strategic management, joint ventures, innovation management, management of change and transformation, implementation strategy and international strategy. He is also a coordinator of the stakeholders' engagement cell at IIT, Delhi, and associate editor of the Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management (Springer). He is also the editor of the e-journal 'Global Journal of Business Excellence' managed by the GIFT society, which aims to create and enhance business-excellence practices in Asia and the Pacific.