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    Dr. K. Mathiyazhagan

    Dr. K. Mathiyazhagan

    Dr. K. Mathiyazhagan

    Chairperson - Research Centre,
    Professor

    B.E., M.E., Ph.D. (NIT Trichy)
    kmathiyazhagan@tsm.ac.in
    Faculty Unique ID: 1-9459151168

    Biography

    Dr. K. Mathiyazhagan is a Professor and Chairperson – Research Centre Thiagarajar School of Management, Madurai. His impressive academic contributions are underscored by his editorial roles (associate & assistant editor) in high-impact journals such as Technological Forecasting and Social Change (Elsevier), Business Strategy and the Environment (Wiley), Journal of Knowledge Management (Emerald), Management Decision (Emerald), and Environment, Development and Sustainability (Springer). He has also served as a guest editor for several special issues in top-tier journals like IJLM, JBL, IJPDLM, SPC, Socio Economy & Decision Science.

    Dr. Mathiyazhagan’s research has earned him a place among the Top 2% of scientists globally, as recognized by Stanford University. He has published extensively, with over 7000 research citations and accolades such as the Excellence Citation Award from Emerald Publisher Ltd. His research interests span Green and Sustainable Supply Chain Management, Multi-Criteria Decision Making, Sustainable Lean Manufacturing, Lean Six Sigma, and more.

    He has received invitations to speak at international conferences and workshops across the UK, Poland, Italy, and China. Dr. Mathiyazhagan has organized multiple international conferences and workshops, edited conference proceedings, and been a reviewer for over 30 prestigious international journals. He has supervised numerous undergraduate, postgraduate, and Ph.D. scholars, and his recent AICTE grants support workshops on Six Sigma in Quality Management and Circular Economy. Also, he has received funded projects from ICSSR & WBPCB. 

    In addition to his academic accomplishments, he is a visiting faculty member at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy.

         

    Publications

    EDITORSHIP ROLE:

    Assistant Editor: 

    • Technological Forecasting and Social Change (Elsevier) – ABDC- A; ABS-3*; IF: 12

    Associate Editor: 

    • Business Strategy and the Environment (Wiley) – ABDC- A; ABS-3; IF: 13.4
    • Journal of Knowledge Management (Emerald) – ABDC – A; IF-7
    • Management Decision (Emerald) – ABDC – B; IF: 4.7
    • Environment, Development and Sustainability (Springer) IF: 4.9 
    • Vikas Kumar, Arun Kumar Kaushik, Farima Noravesh, Rahul Sindhwani, K. Mathiyazhagan,(2025) Green drives: Understanding how environmental propensity, range and technological anxiety shape electric vehicle adoption intentions, Volume 210, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, . (ABDC – A)
    • Rana, R. S., Kumar, D., Prasad, K., & Mathiyazhagan, K. (2024). Mitigating the impact of demand disruption on perishable inventory in a two-warehouse system. Operations Management Research, 17(2), 469-504. (ABDC – C)
    • Sutar, P.S.Kolte, G.Yamini, S. and Mathiyazhagan, K. (2024), “Food supply chain resilience in the digital era: a bibliometric analysis and development of conceptual framework”, Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing, Vol. 39 No. 9, pp. 1863-1893. (ABDC – A)
    • Narassima, M. S., Anbuudayasankar, S. P., Mathiyazhagan, K., Ganesh, K., & Lee, T. R. (2024). Supply chain resilience: conceptual model building and validation. International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications, 27(5), 781-813. (ABDC – B)
    • Vimal, K. E. K., Goel, P., Sharma, N., Mathiyazhagan, K., & Luthra, S. (2024). Where there is a will there is a way: A strategy analysis for electric vehicles sales in India. Transportation research part E: logistics and transportation review, 185, 103506 – (ABDC – A*)- SSCI Indexed
    • Sutar, P.S., Kolte, G., Yamini, S. and Mathiyazhagan, K. (2024), “Food supply chain resilience in the digital era: a bibliometric analysis and development of conceptual framework”, Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing (Emerald), – (ABDC – A)- IF: 3.6 – SSCI Indexed Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/JBIM-10-2023-0587.
    • Singh, R.K. and Mathiyazhagan, K. (2024), “Integrating flexibility and sustainability in supply chains: a practice-based view on leadership, knowledge and digital quality management practices”, The International Journal of Logistics Management (Emerald). – (ABDC – A)- IF: 7.2 – SSCI Indexed
    • Singh, R. K., Mathiyazhagan, K., Scuotto, V., & Pironti, M. (2024). Green Open Innovation and Circular Economy: investigating the role of Big Data Management and Sustainable Supply Chain. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. (ABDC – A)- IF: 4.6- SSCI Indexed
    • Prajapati, D. K., Mathiyazhagan, K., Agarwal, V., Khorana, S., & Gunasekaran, A. (2024). Enabling industry 4.0: Assessing technologies and prioritization framework for agile manufacturing in India. Journal of Cleaner Production (Elsevier), 447, 141488. (ABDC – A) IF: 11.072 – SCI Indexed.
    • Krishna Kumar Dadsena, S P Sarmah, V N A Naikan, K. Mathiyazhagan, Vasco Sanchez Rodrigues (2023)“Performance Measurement of Road Freight Transportation: A Case of Trucking Industry”, Transport Policy (Elsevier), 137, 125-140 – (ABDC – A)- IF: 6.17 – SSCI Indexed
    • Mukherjee, S., Nagariya, R., Mathiyazhagan, K. and Scuotto, V. (2023), “Linking supply chain resilience with knowledge management for achieving supply chain performance”, Journal of Knowledge Management (Emerald), – (ABDC – A)- IF: 7 – SSCI Indexed DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/JKM-12-2022-0985
    • Kaliyan Mathiyazhagan., Agarwal, V., & Anbanandam, R. (2023). Guest editorial: MSME’s resilience and performance: COVID-19 perspective. Benchmarking: An International Journal (Emerald), (ABDC – B)- IF: 5.6 – SSCI Indexed 30(6), 1757-1764.
    • Mthiyazhagan, K., Majumdar, A., & Appolloni, A. (2023). Guest editorial: Resilience in sustainable supply chain post-COVID-19: future pathways. The International Journal of Logistics Management (Emerald), (ABDC- A), IF: 7.5; 34(4), 873-878.
    • Mishra, A., Dutta, P., Jayasankar, S., Jain, P., & Mathiyazhagan, K. (2023). A review of reverse logistics and closed-loop supply chains from the Benchmarking: An International Journal (Emerald), (ABDC – B)- IF: 5.6 – SSCI Indexed 30(3), 975-1020.
    • Ashish Dwivedi, Dindayal Agrawal, Ajay Jhav, K. Mathiyazhagan (2023) “Studying the interactions among Industry 5.0 and Circular Supply Chain: Towards attaining Sustainable Development”, Computers & Industrial Engineering (Elsevier), (CNRS – 3) (ABDC – A) IF: 7.18 – SCI Indexed.
    • Vernika Agarwal, Abdul Zubar Hameed, Snigdha Malhotra, K. Mathiyazhagan, Sreejith Alathur, Andrea Appolloni (2023) “Role of Industry 4.0 in agile manufacturing to achieve sustainable development”, Business Strategy and the Environment (Wiley), (ABDC – A) IF: 10.801 – SSCI Indexed
    • Mathiyazhagan, K., Gnanavelbabu, A., Naveen Kumar. N & Agarwal, V. (2022). “A framework for implementing sustainable lean manufacturing in the electrical and electronics component manufacturing industry: An emerging economies country perspective”, Journal of Cleaner Production (Elsevier), 334, 130169 – (ABDC – A) IF: 11.072 – SCI Indexed.
    • Damini Sunder, K. Mathiyazhagan, Vernika Agarwal, Mukund Janardhanan, Andrea Appolloni (2022) “From linear to circular economy in the e-waste management sector: experience from the transition barriers in the UK” Business Strategy and the Environment (Wiley) (ABDC – A) IF: 10.8 – SSCI Indexed – Received revision.
    • Anchal Gupta; Rajesh Singh, K. Mathiyazhagan, Pradeep Suri, Yogesh Dwivedi (2022) “Exploring relationships between service quality dimensions and customers’ satisfaction: An empirical study in context to Indian logistics service providers”, International Journal of Logistics Management (Emerald) – Accepted for publication – (ABDC – A) IF: 5.446 – SSCI Indexed
    • Deepak Mathivathanan, K. Mathiyazhagan, Nripendra Rana, Sangeeta Khorana; Yogesh Dwivedi (2021) “Barriers to the Adoption of Blockchain Technology in Business Supply Chains: A Total Interpretive Structural Modelling (TISM) approach” International Journal of Production Research (Taylor & Francis) – https://doi.org/10.1080/00207543.2020.1868597  (CNRS – 2) (ABDC – A) IF: 4.577  – SCI Indexed.
    • Anandh, G., PrasannaVenkatesan, S., Goh, M., & Mathiyazhagan, K. (2021). Reuse assessment of WEEE: Systematic review of emerging themes and research directions. Journal of Environmental Management (Elsevier), 287, 112335. (CNRS – 2) (ABDC – A) IF: 5.647  – SCI Indexed.
    • Vernika Agarwal, K. Mathiyazhagan, Snigtha Malholtra,  Tarik Saikouk (2021), “Analysis of Challenges in Sustainable Human Resource Management Due to Disruptions by Industry 4.0: An Emerging Economy Perspective”, International Journal of Manpower (Emerald), (CNRS – 3) (ABDC- A) IF: 0.943
    • Goel, P., Sharma, N., Mathiyazhagan, K., & Vimal, K. E. K. (2021) “Government is trying but consumers are not buying: A barrier analysis for electric vehicle sales in India”, Sustainable Production and Consumption (Elsevier) – IF: 5.647 – SSCI Indexed.
    • UmarSherif, P.Asokan, P.Sasikumar, K.Mathiyazhagan, J.Jerald (2021) “Integrated optimization of transportation, inventory and vehicle routing with simultaneous pickup and delivery in two-echelon green supply chain network”, Journal of Cleaner Production (Elsevier), 287, 125434 – (ABDC – A) IF: 7.246 – SCI Indexed.
    • Krishnan Srijit, Sumit Gupta, Mathiyazhagan Kaliyan, Vikas Kumar, and Jose Arturo Garza-Reyes. (2021) “Assessing the key enablers for Industry 4.0 adoption using MICMAC analysis: a case study”, International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management (Emerald) – (ABDC-B). Accepted for publication. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJPPM-02-2020-0053.
    • Srijit Krishna, K. Mathiyazhagan, Raja Sreedharan (2020) “Developing a hybrid approach for Lean Six Sigma project management: A case application in the reamer manufacturing industry”, IEEE Transaction Engineering Management – Accepted for publication (CNRS – 3) (ABDC – A) IF: 2.05 – SCI Indexed
    • Vimal KEK, K. Mathiyazhagan Vernika Agawal, K. Sivakumar, Sunil Luthra (2020) “Analysis of barriers that impede the elimination of single use plastic in developing economy context” Journal of Cleaner Production (Elsevier), 227, 122629. (ABDC – A) IF: 7.246 – SCI Indexed.
    • Abhijit Majumdar, Sanjib Sinha, Mahesh Shaw, Kaliyan Mathiyazhagan (2020) “Analyzing the Vulnerability of Green Clothing Supply Chains in South and Southeast Asia using Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process”, International Journal of Production Research (Taylor & Francis), 59 (3),(CNRS – 2) (ABDC – A) IF: 4.577  – SCI Indexed
    • Sakthi Nagaraj, Jeyapal & K. Mathiyazhagan (2019) “Evaluation of ergonomic working conditions among standing sewing machine operators in Sri Lanka, International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics (Elsevier), 70, 70-83. DOI: 10.1016/j.ergon.2019.01.006Impact Factor: 1.662 – SCI Indexed 
    • Sakthi Nagaraj, Jeyapal, Vimal KEK & K. Mathiyazhagan (2019) “Integration of human factors and ergonomics into lean implementation: Ergonomic-value stream map approach in the Textile industry”, Production Planning & Control (Taylor & Francis), 30(15), 1265-1282 (CNRS – 2) (ABDC – A) IF: 3.605 – SCI Indexed
    • Mathiyazhagan, K., Sengupta, S., & Poovazhagan, L. (2018). A decision making trial and evaluation laboratory approach to analyse the challenges to environmentally sustainable manufacturing in Indian automobile industry. Sustainable Production and Consumption (Elsevier)16, 58-67. IF: 3.6 – SCI indexed
    • Li Yongbo & K. Mathiyazhagan (2018) “Application of decision making trial and evaluation laboratory to identify the influential indicators towards sustainable supply chain adoption in the auto components manufacturing sector”, Journal of Cleaner Production (Elsevier), 172, 2931-2941, (ABDC – A) –IF : 7.246 – SCI Indexed
    • Bohtan, A., Vrat, P., & Mathiyazhagan, K. (2017). “Analyzing the barriers for implementing an effective supply chain for the public distribution system in india: a tism approach”. International Journal of Industrial Engineering24(6). Impact Factor 0.537 – SCI Indexed.
    • Wang, Z., Mathiyazhagan, K., Xu, Diabat, A., (2016) “A decision making trial and evaluation laboratory approach to analyze the barriers to Green supply chain management adoption in a food packaging company”, Journal of Cleaner Production (Elsevier), 117, 19-28, (ABDC – A) IF: 7.246- SCI Indexed
    • Mathiyazhagan, K., Kannan Govindan and Noorul Haq(2014) Pressure analysis for Green supply chain management implementation in Indian Industries Using Analytic Hierarchy Process. International Journal of Production Research (Taylor & Francis) 52(1), 188-202. (CNRS – 2) (ABDC – A) IF: 4.577 (ABDC – A)
    • Mathiyazhagan, K., Diabat, A., Al-Refaie, A., Xu, L. (2015). Application of analytical hierarchy process to evaluate pressures to implement green supply chain management. Journal of Cleaner Production (Elsevier), 107, 229-236. (ABDC – A) – IF: 7.246– SCI Indexed
    • Peng JiaA. Diabat and K. Mathiyazhagan (2015) “Analyzing the SSCM practices in the mining and mineral industry by ISM approach” Resources Policy (Elsevier) 46 (1), 76-85 –IF: 3.986 – SSCI Indexed

    Book Chapter

    • Agarwal, V., & Mathiyazhagan, K. (2019). Evaluation of Motivational Factors for Sustainable Supplier Collaboration in Indian Industries. In Sustainability, Innovation and Procurement (pp. 61-77). CRC Press.
    • Surya Prakash, Satydev, Kaliyan Mathiyazhagan, Maheshwar Dwivedy, and Sanjiv Narula (2019) “Assessing the Drivers to Gain Sustainable Competitive Advantage An Interpretive Structural Modeling Approach” Sustainable Procurement in Supply Chain Operations (1st Edition), CRC Press (Taylor and Francis), 520 Pages – 87 B/W Illustrations, ISBN 9781138608153 – CAT# K388807
    • K. E. K. Vimal, P. Sasikumar, Kaliyan Mathiyazhagan, M. Nishal, and K. Sivakumar (2019) “Analyzing the Drivers of Sustainable Procurement Using the DEMATEL Approach”, Sustainable Procurement in Supply Chain Operations (1st Edition), CRC Press (Taylor and Francis), 520 Pages – 87 B/W Illustrations, ISBN 9781138608153 – CAT# K388807
    • Mathiyazhagan Kaliyan, Kannan Govindan, and Noorul Haq (2013) Barrier Analysis to Improve Green in Existing Supply Chain Management. Reverse Supply Chain Issues and Analysis, CRC Press (Taylor and Francis), 273–288. Print ISBN: 978-1-4398-9902.
    Courses
    • Lean and Agile Manufacturing
    • Logistics & Distribution Management
    • Supply chain management
    • Production Planning & Control
    • Business Research Method
    • International Logistics management
    Administrative Responsibilities
    • Chairperson – Research Centre

    Others

    Guest Editor in Special iSsueS

    “Collaboration among supply chain channel partners for achieving sustainability development goals in low and middle income countries”, International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management (Emerald) – (CNRS – 2; Q1; ABDC-A; IF: 4.7) https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/journal/ijpdlm/collaboration-among-supply-chain-channel-partners-achieving-sustainability

    “Strategies for Resilient and Sustainable Supply Chains in an Uncertain Business Environment”, Sustainable Production and Consumption (Elsevier)- (IF: 3.6 – Q1) https://www.journals.elsevier.com/sustainable-production-and-consumption/call-for-papers/strategies-for-resilient-and-sustainable-supply-chains

    “Quantitative modellers’ role in post-COVID-19 public and private sector supply chains: Key lessons and future pathways”, Socio-Economic Planning Sciences The International Journal of Public Sector Decision-Making (Elsevier) https://www.journals.elsevier.com/socio-economic-planning-sciences/call-for-papers/special-issue-on-quantitative-modellers

    “Resilience in Sustainable Supply Chain post-COVID19: Future Pathways”, International Journal of Logistics Management (Emerald) – (CNRS – 3; Q1; ABDC-A; IF: 3.325) https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/journal/ijlm/resilience-sustainable-supply-chain-post-covid19-future-pathways

     “Green and Sustainable Practices in Supply Chains”, International Journal of Productivity and Quality Management (IJPQM), Inderscience publisher – Scopus indexed  – 2019 Vol. 28, No. 1 https://www.inderscience.com/info/inarticletoc.php?jcode=ijpqm&year=2019&vol=28&issue=1

    Conference Proceeding Editor

    Editor: Proceeding of FLAME 2020 – Advances in Industrial and Production Engineering: Select Proceedings of FLAME 2020, 5-7 August 2020, Amity University, Noida, India. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-33-4320-7 https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789813343191#aboutAuthors

    Editor: Proceedings of ICAPIE 2019 – International Conference on Advanced Production and Industrial Engineering, ICAPIE 2019, ​20-21 December 2019 AT DITE, Okhla, Delhi, India. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-8542-5 https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789811585418