Prof. Balkrishna Eknath Narkhede

Operations and Supply Chain Management Group

Indian Institute of Management Mumbai (INDIA), India

Email: benarkhede@iimmumbai.ac.in, benarkhede1@gmail.com

Qualifications

2008 Ph.D., University of Mumbai, India

1997 M.Sc., Nagpur University, Nagpur, India

1995 B.Sc., Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur, India

Publications (Selected)

1. Nayal, K., Raut, R., Lopes de Sousa Jabbour, A. B., Narkhede, B. E., & Gedam, V. V. (2025). Integrated technologies toward sustainable agriculture supply chains: missing links. Journal of Enterprise Information Management, 38(1), 318-368.
2. Govardhan, S., Narkhede, B. E., Raut, R. D., Zhang, L. L., & Ghoshal, S. (2025). Significance of Industry 4.0 in Achieving Sustainable Performance Across Supply Chains—A Research Perspective. Business Strategy & Development, 8(1), e70064.
3. Radin Umar, R. Z., Tiong, J. Y., Ahmad, N., & Dahalan, J. (2024). Development of framework integrating ergonomics in Lean’s Muda, Muri, and Mura concepts. Production Planning & Control, 35(12), 1466-1474.
4. Parhi, S., Kumar, S., Joshi, K., Akarte, M., Raut, R. D., & Narkhede, B. E. (2024). Evaluation of operational transformations for smart manufacturing systems. Journal of Global Operations and Strategic Sourcing, 17(3), 541-573.
5. Dohale, V., Akarte, M., Gunasekaran, A., & Verma, P. (2024). Exploring the role of artificial intelligence in building production resilience: learnings from the COVID-19 pandemic. International Journal of Production Research, 62(15), 5472-5488.
6. Dohale, V., Ambilkar, P., Mangla, S. K., & Narkhede, B. E. (2024). Critical factors to sustaileanant innovations for net-zero achievement in the manufacturing supply chains. Journal of Cleaner Production, 455, 142295.
7. Kaur, J., Kumar, S., Narkhede, B. E., Dabić, M., Rathore, A. P. S., & Joshi, R. (2024). Barriers to blockchain adoption for supply chain finance: the case of Indian SMEs. Electronic Commerce Research, 24(1), 303-340.
8. Nayal, K., Raut, R. D., Kumar, M., Paul, S. K., & Narkhede, B. E. (2024). Role of artificial intelligence capability in the interrelation between manufacturing strategies and operational resilience. Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management, 25(1), 137-162.
9. Dohale, V., Ambilkar, P., Bilolikar, V., Narkhede, B. E., Kumar, A., & Kumar, A. (2023). Evaluating circular economy and smart technology adoption barriers in the Indian textile and apparel industries using neutrosophic ISM. Annals of Operations Research, 1-41.
10. Narwane, V. S., Raut, R. D., Mangla, S. K., Gardas, B. B., Narkhede, B. E., Awasthi, A., & Priyadarshinee, P. (2023). Mediating role of cloud of things in improving performance of small and medium enterprises in the Indian context. Annals of Operations Research, 329(1), 69-98.
11. Majumdar, A., Agrawal, R., Raut, R. D., & Narkhede, B. E. (2023). Two years of COVID-19 pandemic: Understanding the role of knowledge-based supply chains towards resilience through bibliometric and network analyses. Operations Management Research, 16(3), 1105-1121.
12. Gupta, S., Joshi, D., Jagtap, S., Trollman, H., Haddad, Y., Yuksek, Y. A., ... & Narkhede, B. (2023). From failure to success: a framework for successful deployment of Industry 4.0 principles in the aerospace industry. International Journal of Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, (ahead-of-print).
13. Nayal, K., Raut, R. D., Narkhede, B. E., Priyadarshinee, P., Panchal, G. B., & Gedam, V. V. (2023). Antecedents for blockchain technology-enabled sustainable agriculture supply chain. Annals of operations research, 327(1), 293-337.
14. Narkhede, B. E., Raut, R., Zhang, L. L., & Kumar, S. (2023). Ranking critical success factors for implementation of lean-industry 4.0: a methodology based on DEMATEL and ANP. International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing, 36(6), 894-907.
15. Kumar, S., Raut, R. D., Aktas, E., Narkhede, B. E., & Gedam, V. V. (2023). Barriers to adoption of industry 4.0 and sustainability: a case study with SMEs. International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing, 36(5), 657-677.

Profile Details

WoS ResearcherID: AAL-2918-2020

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