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EDUCATION

• RESEARCH INTERESTS

  Humanitarian Supply Chain

  Management

  Supply Chain Contracts

  Supply Chain Coordination

• SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (2023-2018)

  John, L. (2022), “Can MSMEs in tourism survive the COVID-19 storm? A MSME view of their stakeholders”, Benchmarking: An International Journal, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/BIJ-11-2021-0687

  John, L. (2022). Are Non-Profit Organizations in India disclosing enough? An explorative study. SPJIMR. https://spjimr.org/spjimr-poms-india-chapter

  John, L., & Gurumurthy, A. (2021). Impact-based disaster classification: a prerequisite for planning and operations of humanitarian supply chain. International Journal of Services and Operations Management, 40(4), 478-501. Inderscience Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJSOM.2021.120057

  John, L., & Gurumurthy, A. (2021). Are quantity flexibility contracts with discounts in the presence of spot market procurement relevant for the humanitarian supply chain? An exploration. Annals of Operations Research, 315(2), 1775-1802. Springer Science and Business Media LLC. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10479-021-04058-4

  John, L., Gurumurthy, A., Mateen, A., & Narayanamurthy, G. (2020). Improving the coordination in the humanitarian supply chain: Exploring the role of options contract. Annals of Operations Research, 319(1), 15-40. Springer Science and Business Media LLC. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10479-020-03778-3

  John, L., Gurumurthy, A., Soni, G., & Jain, V. (2019). Modelling the inter-relationship between factors affecting coordination in a humanitarian supply chain: a case of Chennai flood relief. Annals of Operations Research, 283, 1227-1258. Springer Science and Business Media LLC. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10479-018-2963-3

  Nikolakis, W., John, L., & Krishnan, H. (2018). How blockchain can shape sustainable global value chains: an evidence, verifiability, and enforceability (EVE) framework. Sustainability, 10(11), 3926. MDPI AG. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su10113926

  John, L., Gurumurthy, A., & Soni, G. (2018). Coordination quality index: a metric for measuring the quality of coordination efforts in humanitarian supply chain. International Journal of Intelligent Enterprise, 5(1-2), 141-172. Inderscience Publishers. http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/ijie.2018.091187

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• BOOKS/BOOK CHAPTERS

  John, L. (2018). Review of Empirical Studies in Humanitarian Supply Chain Management: Methodological Considerations, Recent Trends and Future Directions. In: Kovács, G., Spens, K., Moshtari, M. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59099-2_22

  John, L., Ramesh, A. (2016). Modeling the Barriers of Humanitarian Supply Chain Management in India. In: Sahay, B., Gupta, S., Menon, V. (eds) Managing Humanitarian Logistics. Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2416-7_5

• CONFERENCES

  John, L. (Autor & Presenter). (2021). Are Non-Profit Organizations in India disclosing enough? An explorative study. POMS India International Conference. SPJIMR and POMS. (December 23, 2021)

  John, L. (Presenter). (2021). Incentives or Sanctions: An enforcement theory perspective to sustainable consumerism. International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Knowledge Economy – ICCIKE. Amity University, Dubai. (March 18, 2021)

  John, L. (2019). Carrot or Stick: What drives sustainable consumerism? International Conference on Organization and Management (ICOM 2019). Abu Dhabi University, Abu Dhabi, UAE (June 12-13, 2019)

  John, L. and Gurumurthy, A. (2018) On the use of quantity flexibility with discounts in the presence of spot market procurement, 12th International Conference of Indian Subcontinent Decision Science Institute (ISDSI), S.P. Jain Institute of Management Research, Mumbai, (December 27-30, 2019)

  John, L and Gurumurthy, A. (2017). Post-disaster humanitarian supply chain coordination: A systems dynamic model. International Conference on Organization and Management (ICOM 2018). Abu Dhabi University, Abu Dhabi, UAE (November 21-22, 2018)

  John, L and Gurumurthy, A. (2017). Locating warehouse in humanitarian supply chain management- a principal component analysis. 11th International conference of Indian Subcontinent Decision Science Institute (ISDSI), Indian Institute of Management Trichy, Tamil Nadu ( December 27-30, 2017)

  John L. and Gurumurthy, A (2017). Selection of location for pre-positioning warehouse in humanitarian supply chain management. 24th EUROMA Conference 2017, Edinburgh, Scotland (July 1-5, 2017)

  John L., and Gurumurthy, A (2016). Coordination effectiveness index: A metric for coordination efforts in the humanitarian supply chain. 10th International conference of Indian Subcontinent Decision Science Institute (ISDSI), Nashik, Maharashtra (December 28-30, 2016)

  John, L., Jagadeesh, K. Gurumurthy, A and Sridharan, R. (2016). Review of coordination studies in the humanitarian supply chain. POMS-IIIE conference on Best Practices in Supply Chain, Trivandrum, Kerala (December 23-24, 2016)

  John, L. and Gurumurthy, A (2016). Factors affecting coordination in humanitarian supply chain management: a conceptual framework. International Conference on Organization and Management (ICOM 2016). Abu Dhabi University, Abu Dhabi, UAE (November 20-21, 2016)

  John, L. and Gurumurthy, A (2016). A systems approach to coordination problems in Humanitarian Supply Chain Management. Health and Humanitarian Logistics Conference, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia (August 28-30, 2016)

  John, L. and Gurumurthy, A (2016). Coordination mechanism for humanitarian supply chain using flexible returns mechanism. SPJIMR – POMS India Chapter Conference, SP Jain Institute of Management Research, Mumbai, India (August 29-30, 2016)

  John, L. and Thangamani, G. (2015). A new classification schema for disasters. 2nd World Congress on Disaster Management. Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh India (November 19-22, 2015)

  John, L., Ramesh A. and Nazia, A. (2015). Supply chain operations reference model for performance measurement in humanitarian supply chain. 3rd Pan IIM World Management Conference, Indian Institute of Management Indore (IIMI), India (December 17-19, 2015)

  John, L. and Lyngdoh, T. (2015). Green supply chain coordination: a literature review. 4th Annual International Sustainability Conference (SusCon), Indian Institute of Management Shillong, Shillong. (March 11-13, 2015)

  John, L. and Thangamani, G., (2014). Humanitarian supply chain management: Recent trends and future directions. XVIII Annual International Conference of Society of Operations Management (SOM 2014), Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee. (December 12-14, 2014)

  John, L. and Thangamani, G., (2014). A systems approach to coordination in the humanitarian supply chain. 2nd Pan IIM World Management Conference, Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode. (November 5-7, 2014)

  Narayanamurthy, G., John, L., and Pati, S.P. (2013). Identification of best practices for different stages of doctoral curriculum design. XXIII Annual Convention of National Academy of Psychology (NAOP), Rourkela, India. (December 13-15, 2013)

  John, L. and Ramesh A., (2013). Modelling the barriers of humanitarian supply chain in India, International Conference on Humanitarian Logistics, Indian Institute of Management Raipur. (December 2-3, 2013)

  John L., Narayanamurthy, G., and Ramesh A., (2013). A structural framework for reverse logistics implementation, Thirteenth Global Conference on Flexible Systems Management 2013, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. (December 13-15, 2013)

  John L., & Ramesh, A., and Krishnan, A., (2012). Location of warehouse in Asia for humanitarian supply network. XVI Annual International Conference of Society of Operations Management (SOM 2012), Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. (December 21-23, 2012)

  John, L., Shibin, K.T. and Sridharan, R., (2011). Comparison of machine allocation inter-relationship algorithm and delayed product differentiation in layout generation” National Conference on Advances In Mechanical Engineering, Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal. (January 5-6, 2011)

• WORKING PAPERS

  John, L. & Naryanamurthy, G. and Gurumurthy, A (2021). Subcontracting issues at Rane Madras (Ltd). Emerald Emerging Market Cases Studies (draft ready for submission)

  John, L., Ramesh A. and Anand G. (2021). Chennai Floods: informal institutions taking the lead. (Manuscript under preparation)

• COURSES

  Operations Research

  Operations Management

  Quality Management

  Business Process Management

  Operations Strategy

  Supply Chain Management

• AWARDS & HONOURS

  Research

  Received Best Paper Award for the paper titled “Incentive or Sanctions-an enforcement theory perspective to sustainable consumerism” at International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Knowledge Economy – ICCIKE 2021, held during March 17-18, 2021.

  Received the Highly Commended Paper Award for the paper titled “Converging Sustainability Definitions: industry Independent Dimensions” in the 2016 Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence

  Awarded partial funding for presenting a paper/poster at Health and Humanitarian Logistics Conference 2017 at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia

  Received Best Paper Award for the paper titled “Location of warehouse in Asia for humanitarian supply network” at XVI Annual International Conference of Society of Operations Management held at Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (2012)

  Academic

  Recipient of Shastri Student Research Fellowship (Doctoral) by Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute by Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, 2018-19

  Recipient of Gallen Wings of Excellence Award for being amongst the top 100 globally in the essay competition conducted as a part of 48th St. Gallen Symposium. 2018

  National Winner of Wipro Earthian competition on urban sustainability, 2016

  Gold Medalist for M.Tech in Industrial Engineering and Management from National Institute of Technology Calicut, 2012

  Third Rank Holder in the University of Kerala in Mechanical (Production) Engineering Branch, 2010

  K. A. George Memorial Gold Medal for a best outgoing student from Mechanical (Production) Engineering branch, TKM College of Engineering, Kollam, 2010

  PTA Gold medalist for securing highest marks in Mechanical Production Engineering branch, TKM College of Engineering, Kollam, 2010

  Received B. Sarma prize or securing highest marks in Principles of Management in sixth semester, TKM College of Engineering, Kollam. 2009

• WORK EXPERIENCE

  S. P. Jain Institute of Management & Research, Mumbai (Sept 2020 – Now)

  Assistant Professor – Operations Supply Chain Management & Quantitative Methods

  IMT Business School Dubai (Jan 2019 – Aug 2020)

  Assistant Professor – Operations and Supply Chain Management

  Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia (Jul 2018 – Dec 2018)

  Visiting Research Scholar

  Farook Institute of Management Studies (Aug 2017 – Dec 2017)

  Visiting Faculty

  Rane (Madras) Pvt. Ltd. (Apr 2013 – May 2013)

  Management Intern

  Bosch Electrical Drives Pvt. Ltd. (June 2011)

  Management Intern

• MDPS/FDPS

  Management/Executive Development, National Institute of Technology Calicut, Kozhikode. (February 2018)

  Management/Executive Development, National Institute of Technology Calicut, Kozhikode. (December 2017)

• REVIEWER EXPERIENCE

  International Journal of Operations & Production Management

  Computer and Industrial Engineering

  International Journal of Business Excellence

  International Journal of Environment and Sustainable Development

  Management of Environment Quality

  Journal of Indian Business Research

  Knowledge, Management and Society-IIMK Journal

• TEACHING INTEREST

  Operations Management

  Supply Chain Management

  Operations Strategy

  Operations Research

• PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP

  Convener, Entrepreneurship sub-committee, Greater Malabar Initiative (May 2017 – June 2018)