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Dr. Ajay Jha is working as an Associate Professor at Jaipuria Institute of Management, which is one of the top PGDM/MBA colleges in Lucknow, Utter Pradesh. He is a Ph. D. in the area of Strategy Implementation (specifically technological innovation management and supply chain management) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IIT Kanpur), India. His other educational qualifications include B. Tech. (Mechanical Engineering) from HBTI, Kanpur, and M. Tech. (Industrial and Management Engineering) from IIT Kanpur.

Dr Ajay Jha has got more than ten years of teaching experience and his area of interest include subjects like Production Planning and Control, Operations Management, Supply Chain Management, and Project Management. He also has got rich industrial experience of ten years covering domains like Sales and Marketing, Project Management, Safety Audit, and Control, etc.

Dr. Ajay Jha has published in top-ranked International journals and Conferences, for example, Supply Chain Management: an International Journal, International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management, Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal, The TQM Journal, and numerous papers in IEOM Conferences.

Ph.D., M. Tech.

Papers Published in Peer Reviewed Journals (ABDC, SCOPUS, and WoS)

Dwivedi, A., Srivastava, S., Agrawal, D., Jha, A., & Paul, S. K. (2024). Analyzing the inter-relationships of business recovery challenges in the manufacturing industry: Implications for post-pandemic supply chain resilience. Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40171-023-00365-w

Kumar, V., Cudney, E.A., Mittal, A., Jha, A., Yadav, N., & Owad, A.A. (2023). Mapping quality performance through Lean Six Sigma and new product development attributes. The TQM Journal. Ahead of print. https://doi.org/10.1108/TQM-11-2022-0324

Dwivedi, A., Agrawal, D., Jha, A., & Mathiyazhagan, K. (2023). Studying the interactions among Industry 5.0 and circular supply chain: Towards attaining sustainable development. Computers & Industrial Engineering, 176, 108927. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cie.2022.108927

Jha, A., Sharma, R.R.K., & Kumar, V. (2022). Critical success factors for open source innovation in pharma industry: Learning from two case studies. The TQM Journal. Ahead of print. https://doi.org/10.1108/TQM-08-2021-0223

Dwivedi, A., Agrawal, D., Jha, A., Gastaldi, M., Paul, S. K., & D’Adamo, I. (2021). Addressing the challenges to sustainable initiatives in value chain flexibility: Implications for sustainable development goals. Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management, 22(Suppl 2), 179–197. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40171-021-00288-4

Jha, A., Sharma, R.R.K., Kumar, V., & Verma, P. (2022). Designing supply chain performance system: A strategic study on Indian manufacturing sector. Supply Chain Management, 27(1), 66-88. https://doi.org/10.1108/SCM-05-2020-0198

Kumar, V., Verma, P., Jha, A., Lai, K.-K., & Do, M.-H. (2022). Dynamics of a medium value consumer apparel supply chain key parameters. International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management, 71(2), 445-476. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJPPM-10-2019-0501

Book Chapters

Gupta, A., Jha, A., & Dalai, N. (2022). COVID-19 pandemic, unsustainable globalization, and IPR regime: Identifying the critical factors for spread of COVID-19 virus. In Economics and Policy of Energy and Environmental Sustainability (pp. 195-214). Springer, Singapore. ISBN: 978-981-19-5061-2

Kumar, V., Jha, A., Verma, P., & Sharma, N. K. (2022). The tradeoff in managing overall cost and backorder minimization in two-stage multi commodity supply chain problem. In Applications of Advanced Optimization Techniques in Industrial Engineering (pp. 53-66). CRC Press. ISBN 978-036-75-4545-1

Dwivedi, A., Jha, A., Yadav, V., Bansal, M., & Srivastava, H. (2022). A framework for blockchain technology adoption in food supply chain. In Operations and Supply Chain Management in the Food Industry (pp. 95-114). Springer, Singapore. ISBN: 978-981-16-5555-5

Conference Proceedings

Sharma, R. R. K., Amir, M., Jha, A., & Sinha, P. (2021, April). Two formulations of multi item lot sizing problem with setup, inventory, production and backorder costs: Results of an empirical investigation. In 2021 IEEE 8th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Applications (ICIEA) (pp. 285-289). IEEE.