Dr Maryam Lotfi
Lecturer in Supply Chain Management
- lotfim@cardiff.ac.uk
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- Adeilad Aberconwy, Rhodfa Colum, Cathays, Caerdydd, CF10 3EU
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Maryam is a lecturer (assistant professor) of supply chain management at Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University. She Holds PhD in Supply chain management and MRes in Management both from Cass Business School, City University London. She also holds MSc in Industrial engineering from Sharif University and BSc in Mechanical engineering from Iran University of Science and Technology in Tehran. Passionate about industry, she has different industry experiences in petrochemical companies, auto industry and food and drink sector.
Maryam's academic research focuses on "sustainable supply chains" with the focus of social aspects including child slavery, modern slavery and workers' rights. She is part of the Wales Anti Slavery Academia Group. Another research focus for her is risk and resilience in the suply chains.
She has published different papers in refereed journals and international conferences. She is also advisory board in Continuity & Resilience Review, Emerald Publishing in association with the Business Continuity Institute. In addition, she is topic editor of Journal of sustainability for Social suitability. She chaired supply chain management streams in international conferences such as POMS 2019 and has successful track of record in grant awards such as ESRC. She is part of the Complex Adaptive Supply Networks Research Accelerator (CASN-RA) Housed within Arizona State University.
Maryam is passionate about teaching, She is also Fellow of Higher Education Academy (FHEA) and currently is teaching "Supply Chain Social Sustainability" and "Sustainability for business" for MSc in Cardiff Business School.
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Educational Background:
- PhD in Management (Operations and supply Chain Management), Cass Buisness School, City University London (2011-2015)
- MRes in Management, Cass Buisness School, City University London (2010-2011)
- MSc. in Industiral engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Iran (2007-2009)
-BSc in Mechinacal engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology (1999-2003)
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Cass PhD Bursary, GBP 85000, Sponsor: Cass Business School
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Member of British Academy of management(BAM)
Member of European Operations Management Association (EUROMA)
Member of Production and Operations Management Society (POMS)
Associate member of the Higher Education Academy (HEA)
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2018- present: Research Associate, Cardiff Busienss School, Cardiff University, UK
2016-2018: Assistant Professor, Faculty of Management and Economics, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Iran
2015-2016: Visiting Lecturer, Faculty of Management, University of Tehran, Iran
2013-2014: Visiting lecturer, Cass Business School, City University London, UK
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Advisory board, Continuity & Resilience Review, Emerald Publishing in association with the Business Continuity Institute (launches from Jan. 2019)
Reviewed for: Production planning and control, International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logisitics Management, Journal of Sustainability
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2021
- Lotfi, M.et al. 2021. A relational view of horizontal collaboration among micro and small enterprises: a study of the brewery sector in Wales. British Food Journal (10.1108/BFJ-03-2021-0266)
- Lotfi, M. and Larmour, A. 2021. Supply chain resilience in the face of uncertainty: how horizontal and vertical collaboration can help?. Continuity & Resilience Review (10.1108/CRR-04-2021-0016)
- Lotfi, M. and Chen, J. 2021. Child slavery in the supply chains: the actors of the dirty scene. Presented at: 8th Sustainable EurOMA Forum, La Rochelle, France, 22-23 March 2021.
- Bille, A., Lotfi, M. and Wieland, A. 2021. Irresponsibility in supply chains during the COVID- 19 pandemic: a panarchical interpretation. Presented at: 28th EurOMA Conference 2021, Virtual, 5-7 July 2021.
2020
- Lotfi, M., Kumar, M. and Rodrigues, V. S. 2020. Collaboration in the small and micro enterprises: a relational view of enablers and barriers. Presented at: Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2020, Vancouver, Canada, 7-11 August 2020, Vol. 2020. Vol. 1., (10.5465/AMBPP.2020.16847abstract)
2019
- Naghshineh, B. and Lotfi, M. 2019. Enhancing supply chain resilience: an empirical investigation. Continuity & Resilience Review 1(1), pp. 47-62. (10.1108/CRR-09-2018-0002)
- Lotfi, M. 2019. Which practices are lean, agile and resilient Literature review and practitioners' perspective. International Journal of Advanced Operations Management 11(1/2), pp. 142-170. (10.1504/IJAOM.2019.098522)
- Lotfi, M.et al. 2019. Preconditions and motivations for collaboration in the microbrewery industry. Presented at: 26th EurOMA Conference, Helsinki, Finland, 15 - 19 June 2019.
- Lotfi, M.et al. 2019. Depicting collaborations in microbrewery supply chains. Presented at: POMS 2019 International Conference, Brighton, UK, 2 - 4 September 2019.
2018
- Lotfi, M., Akram, Y. and Jafari, S. 2018. The effect of emerging green market on green entrepreneurship and sustainable development in knowledge-based companies. Sustainability 10(7), article number: 2308. (10.3390/su10072308)
- Lotfi, M. and Saghiri, S. 2018. Disentangling resilience, agility and leanness: conceptual development and empirical analysis. Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management 29(1), pp. 168-197. (10.1108/JMTM-01-2017-0014)
- Lotfi, M. 2018. Resilience, agility, and leanness in supply chain management; conceptual development and empirical analysis. Scholars' Press.
2017
- Lotfi, M. 2017. Lean, agile and resilient (LAR) approaches, business strategy and performance outcomes. Presented at: British Academy of Management, Warwick, UK, 5-7 Sept 2017.
2014
- Lotfi, M. and Houshmand, M. 2014. Agility index evaluation using fuzzy logic in a supply chain management company. Engineering Management Research 4(1), pp. 64-81.
2013
- Lotfi, M., Sodhi, M. and Kocabasoglu-Hillmer, C. 2013. How efforts to achieve resiliency fit with lean and agile practices. Presented at: Proceedings of the 24th Production and Operations Management Society, Denver, USA, 3-6 May 2013.
- Lotfi, M., C., K. and Sodhi, M. 2013. How resiliency along with leanness and agility, affects operational performance outcomes. Presented at: 20th European Operations Management Association (EurOMA) Conference, Dublin, Ireland, June 9-12.
2012
- Lotfi, M. and Sodhi, M. 2012. Operational practices of leanness, agility and resiliency (LAR)in manufacturing. Presented at: Proceedings of the 24th Nordic Logistics Research Network Conference (NOFOMA), Turku, Finland, June 6-8 2012.
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Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
Supply Chain Social Sustainability for the MSc students
Sustainability for Business for the MSc students
Main research interests:
Social sustainability in supply chains, Human rights in supply chains, Child slavery, Modern slavery, Workers' rights in supply chains
Supply Chain Risk Management and Resilience
Supervision
interested to supervise students in the areas of:
- Social sustainability in supply chains, Human rights in supply chains, child slavery in supply chains, modern slavery, Workers' rights
- Supply chain risk management
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Past projects
First supervisor of the PhD project in which Vanja is looking at how supply chains are tackling the issue of modern slavery at the national and international levels. As the globalisation has increased, significant low contract prices are offered to lead to more competitiveness in the global trade which caused other complicated issues such as modern slavery in the supply chain. Different countries are defining different Acts to encounter this phenomenon. However, there is not a holistic view on how supply chains are encountering the issue of modern slavery at the national and international levels and this research aims to fill tihs gap (expected date: 2023)
Second supervisor (50%) of the PhD project in which Abhishek Panchwagh is working on a multi-disciplinary research between Cardiff School of Law and politics and the Business School with the focus on Force majeure in the supply chain contracts. This becomes more important in times of uncertainties that supply chains encounter in different periods such as COVID 19 Pandemic that affects the supply chains globally (Expected end date: 2023).
