Thomas Choi, Ph.D.
Thomas Choi is Professor of Supply Chain Management at W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University. He leads the study of the upstream side of supply chains, where a buying company interfaces with many suppliers organized in various forms of networks.
He has published in the Academy of Management Executive, Decision Sciences, Harvard Business Review, Journal of Operations Management, Production and Operations Management and others.
He co-directs the Complex Adaptive Supply Networks Research Accelerator, a research group made up of scholars from around the world interested in supply networks and complexity. He has worked with numerous corporations including LG Electronics, Samsung, Toyota, Volvo, and U.S. Department of Energy.
He has served as Harold E. Fearon Chair of Purchasing Management and Executive Director of CAPS Research, a joint venture between Arizona State University and the Institute for Supply Management from 2014 to 2019. He served as co-EIC for the Journal of Operations Management from 2011 to 2014. In 2012, he was recognized as the Distinguished Operations Management Scholar by the OM Division at the Academy of Management.
Since 2018, he has been listed as a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics for having “multiple highly cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in Web of Science.”
Claudio Giachetti
Full Professor of Strategy in the Department of Management at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (Italy), where he also received his Ph.D. in Business Economics. He was visiting researcher at the University of Zaragoza (Spain) and at Cass Business School in London (UK), and received a master degree in International Management at Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia (Italy).
His primary research interests concern competitive dynamics and product innovation in rapidly changing technological and institutional environments. Claudio's work has been published in various journals, including Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Operations Management, Strategic Organization, Research Policy, Long Range Planning, Global Strategy Journal, International Business Review, R&D Management, Technovation, European Management Review, and Business History, among others.
Claudio serves as Associate Editor for Business Research Quarterly. Before joining the academia, Claudio worked as consultant on issues of corporate strategy and competitive analysis with a variety of clients from the private sector.
Dmitry Ivanov
Professor for Supply Chain and Operations Management in the Department of Business and Economics, deputy director and executive board member of Institute for Logistics at Berlin School of Economics and Law, Germany
His main research interests are supply chain resilience and digital supply chain. His research record counts around 350 publications, with more than 100 papers in prestigious academic journals and several books including “Global Supply Chain and Operations Management” (three editions) and “Introduction to Supply Chain Resilience”. He co-edits IJISM and is an associate editor in IJPR, ITOR and IJSS, and guest editor in ANOR, IJPE, IJIM, IJPDLM, and Omega.
He is Chairman of IFAC TC 5.2 “Manufacturing Modelling for Management and Control”.
He is currently principle investigator of the national project “Digital performance management in global supply chains” (funded by IFAF), investigator of the European H2020 project “Models and methods for an active ageing workforce at the times of Industry 4.0: An international academy” (H2020-MSCA-RISE-2019) and investigator of the international project “Sustainable logistics of the future” (309528) funded by the Research Council of Norway.
Josefa Mula Bru
Professor in the Department of Business Management of the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), Spain. She is a member of the Research Centre on Production Management and Engineering (CIGIP) of the UPV.
Her teaching and principal research interests concern production engineering and management, operations research and supply chain simulation and optimization. She is editor in chief of the International Journal of Production Management and Engineering. She regularly acts as associate editor, guest editor and member of scientific boards of international journals and conferences, and as referee for scientific journals. She is author of more than 100 papers mostly published in international books and high-quality journals.
She is currently principal investigator of the national project "Optimisation of zero-defect enabling production technologies for supply chains 4.0 (CADS4.0)" (RTI2018-101344-B-I00) and investigator of the European H2020 project "Industrial data services for quality control in smart manufacturing (i4Q)" (958205).
Joaquín Alegre
Professor of Organisation and Management at University of Valencia
He has been a lecturer at University Jaume I and a visiting researcher at INSEAD, BI Norwegian School of Management and University of Sussex. His research and his teaching focus on organisational learning and decision-making for innovatio.
He has published his research findings at top academic journals such as Research Policy, Technovation, Journal of Product Innovation Management or Industrial Marketing Management.
At present, he is Associate Editor for International Journal of Management Reviews and he is leading a research project funded by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities that connects innovation and organisational learning with the firm’s top management team.
Carmen Sánchez Trigueros
Professor of Labor and Social Security Law at the University of Murcia.
It has four recognized research periods and has supervised seven doctoral theses. He has participated in more than twenty Research Projects. One of them received the CES Prize 2006 and another is 1st FIPROS Prize 2011.
It has numerous publications and monographs alone and in collective works. Her lines of research are work life balance, organization of working time, content of collective bargaining, attention to the socio-economic context and equality and non-discrimination. She is a member of the Editorial Board of several specialized publications such as the General Journal of Labor Law and Social Security, Aranzadi Doctrinal Magazine and Social Security Law Magazine.
She is currently the Director of the Equality Unit of the University of Murcia.
Djamil Tony Kahale Carrillo
Professor of Labour and Social Security Law at the Polytechnic University of Cartagena.
He has published several monographs and book chapters in prestigious publishing houses, as well as articles in journals with a high impact index. He has been awarded several prizes, both nationally and internationally, for his research. He holds two sexenios of research and the I3 Certificate.
One of his main lines of research, among others, is the digitalisation of workplaces through the implementation of the fourth industrial revolution.
At present, he is principal investigator of different research groups, including, on the one hand, the project 20976/PI/18: The impact of Industry 4.0 in the workplace: An interdisciplinary vision, funded by the Seneca Foundation-Agency of Science and Technology of the Region of Murcia. On the other hand, as representative in Spain of the Bargaining upfront in the digital age (BargainUP) consortium [VS/2019/0280] funded by the European Commission.
He is also the Academic Manager of the School of Labour Practice of the University of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena.
