VARUN SHARMA

Faculty Profile

VARUN SHARMA

Assistant Professor & Co–Chair Student Affairs

Area:

Operations and Decision Science

Edu:

Fellow Programme in Management (Equivalent to Ph.D.) at XLRI Jamshedpur; MTech in Industrial Management, BTech in Mechanical Engineering

Date of Joining:

2^nd November 2022

Biography

Varun Sharma is a doctoral fellow from the XLRI Xavier School of Management, Jamshedpur in the area of Production, Operations and Decision Sciences. The title of his thesis is ‘Sustainable Supply Chain Management: Exploring Its Relationship with Operational Performance and Organizational Resilience’. Additionally, he is an MTech in the specialization of Industrial Management and has 2 years of managerial experience with Reliance Industries Limited. His areas of interest for research align with the application of digital technologies in Sustainable Supply Chain, Supply Chain Resilience and Supply Chain Disruption Management.

Teaching

Business Research Methods
Supply Chain Management
Operations Management

Research

Supply Chain Digitalization
Sustainable Supply Chain Management
Supply Chain Resilience
Supply Chain Disruption Management

Publications

Sharma, V., Vijayaraghavan, T. A. S., & Ram, T. L. R. (2023). Resolving operational paradox of sustainable supply chain: A decision framework approach. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seps.2023.101565 (Scopus: Q1/ABDC:C/IF:4.64)
Raj, A., Sharma, V., Shukla, D. M., & Sharma, P. (2023). Advancing supply chain management from agility to hyperagility: a dynamic capability view. Annals of Operations Research, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-022-05158-5 (Scopus: Q1/ABDC:A/IF:4.82 )
Sharma, V., Raj, A., & Chakraborty, A. (2022). Analysis of power dynamics in sustainable supply chain under non-linear demand setup. Operations Management Research.https://doi.org/10.1007/s12063-022-00268-6(Scopus: Q1/ABDC:C/IF:2.7).
Sharma, V. and Mangaraj, B.K., (2022). Sustainable Supply Chain Resilience: A Decision Framework to Manage Disruptions and Retain Sustainability. In Making Complex Decisions toward Revamping Supply Chains amid COVID-19 Outbreak (pp. 43-68). CRC Press.

Conferences and Workshops

Sharma, V., Raj, A., Chakraborty, A., (2021). Analysis of Shared Sustainability Responsibility and Power Dynamics in a Dyadic Supply Chain. In International Conference on Operations and Supply Chain Management hosted by Symbiosis Institute of Operations Management, Nashik, Maharashtra, India.
Sharma, V., (2019). Evaluating The Operational performance of Sustainable Supply Chain Management Factors Using EFA-AHP-TODIM Method. In 7th PAN IIM World Management Conference hosted by IIM Rohtak, Haryana, India.
Sharma, V., (2019). Prioritizing Supply Chain Resilience Practices based on the Sustainability Goals. In Annual BAM2019 Conference hosted by Aston Business School, Aston University, United Kingdom.
Sharma, V., (2019) Prioritizing Sustainable Supply Chain Management Factors based on their Operational Performance. In BAM2019 Symposium hosted by Aston Business School, Aston University, United Kingdom.

Awards

XLRI Medal for Outstanding FPM Student in the convocation of 2023

Media Coverage

Not Applicable