Research Interests

Management of technology, logistics and supply chain management, environmentally conscious business practices, performance measurement and analysis, multiple criteria decision making.

Teaching Courses

Operations Management
Green Business Management
Greening the Corporation

Key Publications/Presentations

“Barriers to the implementation of Environmentally Oriented Reverse Logistics: Evidence from the Automotive Industry Sector,”  British Journal of Management, (2009).

“Manufacturing capabilities and performance: a critical analysis and review,” International Journal of Production Research, (2009).

 “Investigating Technical and Ecological Efficiencies in the Electricity Generation Industry: Are there Win-Win Opportunities?” Journal of the Operational Research Society, (2009).

 “Perceived Stakeholder Influences and Organizations' Use of Environmental Audits,” Accounting, Organizations and Society (2009).

 “A Cross-Country Empirical Comparison of Environmental Supply Chain Management Practices in the Automotive Industry,” Asia Business and Management (2008).

“Environmental management system certification and its influence on corporate practices: Evidence from the automotive industry,” International Journal of Operations and Production Management (2008).

 “Information Technology and Systems in China’s Circular Economy: Implications for Sustainability,” Journal of Systems and Information Technology, (2008).

“Does explicit contracting effectively link CEO compensation to environmental performance?,” Business Strategy and the Environment, (2008).

 “The Role of Organizational Size in the Adoption of Green Supply Chain Management Practices in China,” Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, (2008).

Qinghua Zhu, Joseph Sarkis, James Cordeiro, K-H. Lai, “Firm level Correlates of Emergent Green Supply Chain Management Practices in the Chinese Context,” OMEGA, (2008).

Qinghua Zhu, Joseph Sarkis, K-H. Lai, “Confirmation of a Measurement Model for Green Supply Chain Management Practices Implementation,” International Journal of Production Economics, (2008).

Qinghua Zhu and Joseph Sarkis, “The Moderating Effects of Institutional Pressures on Emergent Green Supply Chain Practices and Performance,” International Journal of Production Research, (2007).

 “A Strategic Sustainability Justification Methodology for Organisational Decisions: A Reverse Logistics Illustration,” International Journal of Production Research, (2007).

 “Initiatives and outcomes of green supply chain management implementation by Chinese manufacturers,” Journal of Environmental Management, (2007).

"Green Supply Chain Management Implications for 'Closing the Loop'," Transportation Research E: The Logistics and Transportation Review (2008).

"Green Supply Chain Management: Pressures, Practices and Performance within the Chinese Automobile Industry," International Journal of Cleaner Production (2007).

"An Application of the Analytic Network Process To the Advertising Media Budget Allocation Decision," International Journal of Media Management, (2006).

"Relationships between Solid Waste Management Performance and Environmental Practice Adoption in Welsh SMEs," International Journal of Production Research, (2007).

"An Empirical Assessment of a Learning and Knowledge Management Typology for Research Joint Ventures," International Journal of Technology Management (2006).

"Value Perceptions and Performance of Research Joint Ventures: An Organizational Learning Perspective," International Journal of High Technology Management Research, (2006).

"The Adoption of Environmental and Risk Management Practices: Relationships to Environmental Performance," Annals of Operations Research, (2006).

"An Activity Based Management Methodology for Evaluating Business Processes for Environmental Sustainability," Business Process Management Journal (2006).

"Evaluation of Enterprise Information Technologies: A Decision Model Incorporating Strategic and Operational Issues," IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part C (2006).

"Investment Justification of Advanced Manufacturing Technology: A Review," International Journal of Services and Operations Management, (2006).

"An Inter-sectoral Comparison of Green Supply Chain Management in China: Drivers and Practices,"(2006).

Ishik Seol and Joseph Sarkis, "A Multi-Attribute Model for Internal Auditor Selection," Managerial Auditing Journal, (2005)

"Real Options Analysis for 'Green Trading': The Case of Greenhouse Gases," Engineering Economist, (2005).

"Efficient Service Location Design in Government Services: A Decision Support System Framework," Journal of Operations Management, (2005).

"E-Logistics and the Natural Environment" Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, (2005).

Editorial

Editor-in-Chief – Management Research News- Emerald Publishing

Models and Methodologies Departmental Editor – IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management