All Outputs (10)

Understanding the Level of Digitization in Emerging Economies: Implications for Sustainable Development Goals (2023)
Book Chapter
Nahid, F., & Sarker, S. (2023). Understanding the Level of Digitization in Emerging Economies: Implications for Sustainable Development Goals. In Q. T. Islam, R. Goel, & T. Singh (Eds.), Fostering Sustainable Businesses in Emerging Economies (53-69). Leeds, UK: Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80455-640-520231004

Micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) can play a significant role in achieving sustainable development goals (SDGs) as they have the ability to reduce unemployment. Digitalization helps MSMEs in a number of ways, including lowering transaction... Read More about Understanding the Level of Digitization in Emerging Economies: Implications for Sustainable Development Goals.

Evaluation of Carbon Emission Factors in the Cement Industry: An Emerging Economy Context (2023)
Journal Article
Khaiyum, M. Z., Sarker, S., & Kabir, G. (2023). Evaluation of Carbon Emission Factors in the Cement Industry: An Emerging Economy Context. Sustainability, 15(21), Article 15407. https://doi.org/10.3390/su152115407

The cement industry is a major contributor to carbon emissions, responsible for 5–8% of global emissions. This industry is expanding, particularly in emerging economies, and it is expected that CO2 emissions will rise by 4% by 2050. To address this c... Read More about Evaluation of Carbon Emission Factors in the Cement Industry: An Emerging Economy Context.

Behavioural factors for Industry 4.0 adoption: implications for knowledge-based supply chains (2023)
Journal Article
Taqi, A. M. M., Nur, S. M. S. A., Salman, S., Ahmed, T., Sarker, S., Ali, S. M., & Sankaranarayanan, B. (2023). Behavioural factors for Industry 4.0 adoption: implications for knowledge-based supply chains. Operations Management Research, 16, 1122–1139. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12063-022-00338-9

Industry 4.0 (I4.0) is a relatively new and still emerging concept. Due to its novelty, companies find it extremely difficult to adopt I4.0 and reap the full benefit of the digital transformation of the fourth industrial revolution. Even though chall... Read More about Behavioural factors for Industry 4.0 adoption: implications for knowledge-based supply chains.

Exploring pillars of supply chain competitiveness: insights from leading global supply chains (2022)
Journal Article
Sarker, S., Rashidi, K., Gölgeci, I., Gligor, D. M., & Hsuan, J. (in press). Exploring pillars of supply chain competitiveness: insights from leading global supply chains. Production Planning and Control, https://doi.org/10.1080/09537287.2022.2145246

This paper aims to explore key pillars of supply chain competitiveness (SCC) and understand how top supply chains remain competitive in the long term. The research design is divided into two phases. First, an extensive review of the scholarly SCC lit... Read More about Exploring pillars of supply chain competitiveness: insights from leading global supply chains.

Evaluating strategies to decarbonize oil and gas supply chain: Implications for energy policies in emerging economies (2022)
Journal Article
Khorasani, M., Sarker, S., Kabir, G., & Ali, S. M. (2022). Evaluating strategies to decarbonize oil and gas supply chain: Implications for energy policies in emerging economies. Energy, 258, Article 124805. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2022.124805

The global energy landscape is shifting rapidly, with a heightened emphasis on environmental protection. The oil and gas (O&G) industry is one of the biggest environmental polluters, accounting for 10% of all human-produced greenhouse gas (GHG) emiss... Read More about Evaluating strategies to decarbonize oil and gas supply chain: Implications for energy policies in emerging economies.

Implementation of Linear Programming and Decision-Making Model for the Improvement of Warehouse Utilization (2022)
Journal Article
Manoharan, S., Stilling, D., Kabir, G., & Sarker, S. (2022). Implementation of Linear Programming and Decision-Making Model for the Improvement of Warehouse Utilization. Applied System Innovation, 5(2), Article 33. https://doi.org/10.3390/asi5020033

Warehouses are used to store raw materials, finished goods, defective products, tools, machinery, and other company assets until needed. In addition, the warehouse is a staging area for the storage and packaging of products delivered to the customer... Read More about Implementation of Linear Programming and Decision-Making Model for the Improvement of Warehouse Utilization.

Challenges to COVID-19 vaccine supply chain: Implications for sustainable development goals (2021)
Journal Article
Alam, S. T., Ahmed, S., Ali, S. M., Sarker, S., Kabir, G., & ul-Islam, A. (2021). Challenges to COVID-19 vaccine supply chain: Implications for sustainable development goals. International Journal of Production Economics, 239, Article 108193. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2021.108193

The COVID-19 outbreak has demonstrated the diverse challenges that supply chains face to significant disruptions. Vaccine supply chains are no exception. Therefore, it is elemental that challenges to the COVID-19 vaccine supply chain (VSC) are identi... Read More about Challenges to COVID-19 vaccine supply chain: Implications for sustainable development goals.

The Paradox of Risk Management: A Supply Management Practice Perspective (2018)
Book Chapter
Sarker, S. (2019). The Paradox of Risk Management: A Supply Management Practice Perspective. In G. A. Zsidisin, & M. Henke (Eds.), Revisiting Supply Chain Risk (421-437). Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03813-7_24

How are risks managed in organizations? A conformist answer to this question is that all the plausible risks are first identified, then assessed and finally mitigated or treated. Grounded on a single in-depth case study of a leading global manufactur... Read More about The Paradox of Risk Management: A Supply Management Practice Perspective.

Differentiating Between Supply and Supplier Risk for Better Supply Chain Risk Management (2018)
Book Chapter
Sarker, S. (2019). Differentiating Between Supply and Supplier Risk for Better Supply Chain Risk Management. In G. A. Zsidisin, & M. Henke (Eds.), Revisiting Supply Chain Risk (315-328). Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03813-7_19

Internal Visibility of External Supplier Risks and the Dynamics of Risk Management Silos (2016)
Journal Article
Sarker, S., Engwall, M., Trucco, P., & Feldmann, A. (2016). Internal Visibility of External Supplier Risks and the Dynamics of Risk Management Silos. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 63(4), 451-461. https://doi.org/10.1109/tem.2016.2596144

This paper investigates the factors behind silo-based risk management practices in organizations. Based on interviews with different actors working with the supply management processes within and across different organizational levels in a major mult... Read More about Internal Visibility of External Supplier Risks and the Dynamics of Risk Management Silos.