Vinaya is a Senior Lecturer in the Management, Learning and Organisations department. He is the Programme Leader for the Masters in Global Supply Chain Management programme and also the Link Tutor for the MBA franchise to Niels Brock Copenhagen Business College (www.brock.dk/mba-executive). Previously, he was the Programme Leader for the MBA programme. Prior to joining Middlesex University, he did his research at Cardiff Business School as a part of the EPSRC funded McCLOSM or Mass Customised Logistics project. Earlier, he has worked for many years as a Management Consultant on supply chain management and operations performance improvement projects. He has a Bachelors and Masters in Engineering from IIT Kanpur, Masters in Operations Research from Lancaster University, MBA from S.P Jain Institute of Management and Research and PhD from Cardiff Business School. He is also a fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Languages spoken
English, Hindi
Professional Memberships
Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (USA)
Module Leader for MGT4803 (Operations and Supply Chain Management), MGT2011 (Operations and Information Management), MGT4510 (Global Supply Chain Management) and MGT3700 (Logistics)
Teaching Interests: Operations Management, Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Data Analytics, Sustainable Operations
Supervises MBA projects and MSc dissertations
Research interests
Select Journal Publications
Book Chapters (Accepted and being published)
Refereed Conferences
Balasubramanian, Sreejith and Shukla, Vinaya and Sethi, Jaspreet Singh and Islam, Nazrul and Saloum, Roy (2021) A readiness assessment framework for Blockchain adoption: a healthcare case study. Technological Forecasting and Social Change , 165 . pp. 1-16. ISSN 0040-1625
Balasubramanian, Sreejith and Shukla, Vinaya and Mangla, Sachin and Chanchaichujit, Janya (2021) Do firm characteristics affect environmental sustainability? A literature review‐based assessment. Business Strategy and the Environment , 30 (2). pp. 1389-1416. ISSN 0964-4733
Balasubramanian, Sreejith and Shukla, Vinaya and Upadhyay, Arvind and Gharehdash, Mahshad and Gharehdash, Mahnoush (2020) Supply chain network design models for a circular economy: a review and a case study assessment. In: Circular Economy for the Management of Operations. Kumar, Anil and Garza-Reyes, Jose Arturo and Rehman Khan, Syed Abdul , eds. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, United States, pp. 1-19. ISBN 9780367422516
Upadhyay, Arvind and Mukhuty, Sumona and Kumari, Sushma and Garza-Reyes, Jose Arturo and Shukla, Vinaya (2020) A review of lean and agile management in humanitarian supply chains: analysing the pre-disaster and post-disaster phases and future directions. Production Planning & Control . pp. 1-14. ISSN 0953-7287 (Published online first)
Upadhyay, Arvind and Alhuzaimi, Waleed and Shukla, Vinaya and Nur, Shaheda (2020) The influence of ethical practice on sustainable supplier selection in the furniture industry. In: Sustainable Supply Chains: Strategies, Issues, and Models. Ramanathan, Usha and Ramanathan, Ramakrishnan , eds. Springer, Cham, Switzerland, pp. 273-290. ISBN 9783030488758
