Dr Maryam Lotfi
Lecturer in Supply Chain Management
- lotfim@cardiff.ac.uk
- +44 (0)29 2251 0877
- C45, Aberconway Building, Colum Road, Cathays, Cardiff, CF10 3EU
- Media commentator
- Available for postgraduate supervision
Overview
Maryam is a lecturer (assistant professor) in supply chain management at Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University and an affiliate to the SRSC Forum-Research-Cardiff University. She Holds PhD in Supply chain management and MRes in Management both from Bayes (formerly 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.
Maryam's academic research focuses on "sustainable supply chains" with the focus of social aspects including child slavery, modern slavery and workers' rights. This is very much aligned with Cardiff Business School Public Value Strategy. Therefore, it contributes to the main themes of PUblic Value strategy on Decent Work, Business Remodelled and Future Organisation through interdisciplinary research addressing the grand challenges highlighted in The Way-Forward. Furthermore, 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 serving as Editorial Board of Journal of Transport and Supply Chain Management (JTSCM) and as advisory board in Continuity & Resilience Review, Emerald Publishing in association with the Business Continuity Institute. She chaired supply chain management streams in international conferences such as POMS 2019 and IPSERA 2022.
She has successful track of record in fund applications and working with industrial partners. The fundings were from Global Wales, ESRC and Cardiff University internal funds. The projects focus includes different countries and sectors as such investigation on child labour in India; investigation of modern slavery risk management in tourism sector globally or UK focused projects such as the effect of Covid 19 on employment standards across the UK supply chains.
Maryam is passionate about teaching, She is also Fellow of Higher Education Academy (FHEA). She designed a new module of "Supply Chain Social Sustainability" for Cardiff Business School, MSC Sustainability Program, which for it, she is serving as module leader from Jan. 2021. She also co-teaches on "Sustainability for business" for MSc in Cardiff Business School. She is also part of executive teaching team in "Help tp Grow: Management" available to Micro and SMEs, in which she teaches "Employee Engagement and Leading Change". The module receives well attention from SMEs in Wales (See the impact of the program and specifcally this module as reflected in the Wales news Here)
Maryam has experiences working with different sectors including food and drink sector, hospitality sector and auto industry. She is also working with NGOs, governments and Unions to be able to address the supply chain social issues through a multi- stake holder approach.
She is collaborating with different universities globally, including Copenhagen Business School, Kedge Business School, Montpellier Business School, Uiversity of Johannesburg, Jindal Global University, University of Strathclyde and Bayes Business School. She has been appointed as Visiting Associate Professor at the Department of Transport & Supply Chain Management, and the University of Johannesburg with effect from September 2022.
Biography
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)
Honours and awards
Cass PhD Bursary, GBP 85000, Sponsor: Cass Business School
Professional memberships
Member of British Academy of management(BAM)
Member of European Operations Management Association (EUROMA)
Member of Production and Operations Management Society (POMS)
Committees and reviewing
Advisory board, Continuity & Resilience Review, Emerald Publishing in association with the Business Continuity Institute
Publications
2022
- Wilson, J. et al. 2022. On the beer wagon: The past, present and future of Celtic craft brewing and its policies. Regional Studies, Regional Science
- Lotfi, M. and Sodhi, M. 2022. Resilient agility under the practice-based view. Production Planning and Control (10.1080/09537287.2022.2121778)
- Lotfi, M. and Larmour, A. 2022. Supply chain resilience in the face of uncertainty: how horizontal and vertical collaboration can help?. Continuity & Resilience Review 4(1), pp. 37-53. (10.1108/CRR-04-2021-0016)
- Lotfi, M., Kumar, M., Sanchez Rodrigues, V., Naim, M. and Harris, I. 2022. A relational view of horizontal collaboration among micro and small enterprises: a study of the brewery sector in Wales. British Food Journal 124(4), pp. 1254-1273. (10.1108/BFJ-03-2021-0266)
- Strand, V., Lotfi, M., Flynn, A. and Walker, H. 2022. A systematic literature review of modern slavery risk management in the global supply chains: State of the art and research opportunities. Presented at: IPSERA 2022 Conference, Jönköping, Sweden, 10 -13 April 2022.
2021
- Lotfi, M., Walker, H. and Rendon-Sanchez, J. 2021. Supply chains’ failure in workers’ rights with regards to the SDG compass: a doughnut theory perspective. Sustainability 13, article number: 12526. (10.3390/su132212526)
- Hossein Sadat Hosseini Khajouei, M., Lotfi, M., Ebrahimi, A. and Jafari, S. 2021. Water truck routing optimization in open pit mines using the general algebraic modelling system approach. In: Molamohamadi, Z. et al. eds. Logistics and Supply Chain Management., Vol. 1458. Communications in Computer and Information Science Springer, pp. 255-270., (10.1007/978-3-030-89743-7_14)
- 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.
- Flynn, A., Lotfi, M. and Strand, V. 2021. The impact of Covid-19 on ethical employment in supply chains: opportunities & threats. Presented at: The Impact of Covid-19 on Ethical Employment in Supply Chains: Opportunities & Threats, Cardiff, UK, 30 September 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., Kumar, M., Rodrigues, V. S., Naim, M. and Harris, I. 2019. Preconditions and motivations for collaboration in the microbrewery industry. Presented at: 26th EurOMA Conference, Helsinki, Finland, 15 - 19 June 2019.
- Lotfi, M., Kumar, M., Rodrigues, V. S., Harris, I. and Naim, M. 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.
Teaching
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
Supply Chain Social Sustainability for the MSc students
Sustainability for Business for the MSc students
Emplyee Engagmeent and Leading Change, "Help to Grow: Management" Prgram available to micro and SMEs.
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
Funded projects:
- ESRC Wales DTP Collaborative studentship 2023 of £155000, for the project of “Understanding and modelling the impact of consumer purchasing behaviour on the global supply chains' decisions in adapting anti-slavery practices”. This is a collaboration with UNSEEN, a UK based anti-slavery charity (2023-2027).
- Main applicant and main investigator, Global Wales International Research Mobility Fund from Global Wales, “Modern slavery in the global supply chains” through collaboration with Jindal Global University 2022
- Main applicant and main investigator, Seedcorn fund, Cardiff Business School, “Modern Slavery risk management in the long and complex supply chains: Case study of tourism sector 2022
- Co applicant and Co-investigator, ESRC IAA/NPIF ABC fund, “How can ethical consultancies help firms maintain employment standards across their operations and supply chains in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic?” 2021
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 and resilience
- Collaboration among micro, small and meduim enterprises in the SC
Current supervision
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).
Second PhD Supervisor of the PhD project in a collaboration between Cardiff Business School and University of Johannesburg in South Africa, Hemisha Makan is investigsting Supply Chain Modern Slavery in South Africa: Context, Conceptualization, and assessment (start date: Sep. 2022- End date: Sep. 2025)
Third PhD supervisor of the PhD project in which Miguela Gonzalez is doing research on Implementing the Anti-Racist Wales Action Plan:A Study of Processes, Prospects and Pitfalls (start date: Sep. 2022- End date: Sep. 2025). The project is funded by Welsh Government.
