Arun Abraham Elias

Victoria University of Wellington · School of Management

As an emerging information technology, the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) has the capability to contribute toward sustainable healthcare, but its adoption in emerging economies is challenging. This research was undertaken to conduct a holistic analysis of the complexities associated with the adoption of IoMT in emerging economies like India usin...

Data-driven marketing has become a prominent strategic marketing approach, but it is prone to complex challenges, often referred as its dark side. The literature on data-driven marketing is dominated by its positive aspects, but there is an emerging literature stream focussing on its challenges. This study aims at contributing to this literature st...

Environmental conflict management involves the management of multiple stakeholders with conflicting stakes. This study proposes and demonstrates the application of evaporating cloud as a tool to the area of environmental conflicts. Through a structured methodology and logical diagramming, the evaporating cloud builds on the traditional stakeholder...

Purpose The main purpose of this research is to investigate the supply chain performance through collaborative effectiveness, from the organisations of Asia–Pacific region perspective, compared with that of global organisations based on collaborative supply chain practices. Design/methodology/approach The survey research methodology was adopted, i...

Purpose This study aims to analyze the complexities of the Brazilian soybean supply chain (SSC) and develop strategic interventions to improve the origin system’s performance. Design/methodology/approach This study used stakeholder interviews to identify the SSC bottlenecks and determine and assess drivers of competitiveness. A methodological fram...

Pesticide residues has become a serious environmental concern due to the intensification of agricultural production, its universal use and the risk of contamination. It is an issue that is inserted in the dichotomy between the search for increased food production, waste generation and environmental preservation. There are two main objectives for th...

Purpose The overall objective of this study is to holistically analyse the complexities involved in the adoption of sustainable wood supply chain in the Amazon and to develop strategic interventions to improve the system. Design/methodology/approach This study uses the systems thinking and modelling framework that included problem structuring foll...

Vietnam is considered as one of the countries with the earliest and most effective responses to the outbreak of 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), a pandemic with acute respiratory syndrome caused by the new strain of coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2). An important contribution to the overall success is the effectiveness of the governmental communic...

During the early five months of the first phase of the Covid-19 pandemic, the South Indian state of Kerala regularly appeared in world media, presenting an impactful case of Covid-19 innovations. The purpose of this article is to uniquely present Kerala’s success of flattening the Covid-19 curve during that period, employing storytelling using syst...

Call for Papers: Special Issue on Innovation and Flexibility for Covid-19 Recovery Strategies. Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management.

Stakeholders influence the successful implementation of strategies in a system. This study aims at developing strategic interventions through the involvement of stakeholders who are affected by these strategies. Using a systems thinking approach, this study illustrates the creation of a participative system model that led to the development of thre...

Purpose The purpose of this article is to analyse the complexities involved in implementing continuous improvement initiatives in public sector organisations. Design/methodology/approach This paper is based on a case study of a private sector organisation based in New Zealand and its efforts in implementing continuous improvement activities in i...

This article presents the application of the systems thinking and modelling methodology for analyzing multiple stakeholders with conflicting stakes. It illustrates this methodological framework using a New Zealand transport infrastructure case. By moving beyond the usual stakeholder analysis tools, comprising of matrices or lists of criteria or att...

Purpose This paper aims to illustrate the usefulness of stakeholder analysis for managing Lean Six Sigma (LSS) projects effectively. Design/methodology/approach This research is based on an LSS case study that was initiated in a New Zealand public sector organisation. Findings A ten-step stakeholder analysis framework was applied to a public sect...

Research and development (R&D) project management involves managing multiple stakeholders with conflicting stakes. This article proposes a systems approach to capture such conflicting stakes of multiple stakeholders in controversial R&D projects. The approach is illustrated using a New Zealand case study related to the use of 1080 chemical for pest...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a systemic analysis of the complex interaction of factors affecting the reverse logistics (RL) processes in a pharmaceutical supply chain (PSC). Design/methodology/approach – This study uses a systems thinking approach. Initial problem structuring involved the analysis of behavior-over-time of main...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a systemic analysis of the complex interaction of factors affecting the reverse logistics (RL) processes in a pharmaceutical supply chain (PSC). Design/methodology/approach – This study uses a systems thinking approach. Initial problem structuring involved the analysis of behavior-over-time of main...

This paper presents a systems model to address the need for a stakeholder analysis tool in the environmental planning and management literature. It captures the dynamic and complex nature of environmental conflicts. This is developed using the system dynamics methodology and is applied to a New Zealand case, the Transmission Gully motorway project....

Stakeholder management is an important and common practice in any project, as it allows managers to better manage process, performance and risk. In virtual projects, collaboration and engagement with stakeholders is relatively more complex, challenging, and critical for project success. This paper proposes a novel stakeholder engagement process, fo...

The systems thinking and modelling framework involve five major phases: problem structuring, causal loop modelling, dynamic modelling, scenario planning & modelling , and implementation & organisational learning. In this paper we propose that stakeholder analysis would enrich the systems thinking and modelling process. Specifically, we explain the...

This paper examines the complexity arising from the multiple, time varying factors that impact energy efficiency in New Zealand's residential sector. Initial problem structuring involved the analysis of behaviour over time of main variables and incorporated stakeholder analysis using a systems approach. Further, a systems model of the problem situa...

Developing a shared mental model of stakeholders in conflict is a challenge in environmental conflict management. In this paper, we describe the development of a shared systems model of stakeholders in environmental conflict in the Transmission Gully project, a large-scale transport infrastructure project in the Wellington region of New Zealand. Se...

 Stakeholders are an integral part of environmental conflict. Analysing the positions and interests of stakeholders is vital in effective environmental conflict management. This paper reviews the literature related to stakeholders and their dynamics in environmental conflict. It also presents the results of a study relating to a New Zealand transpo...

R&D projects affect the interests of different stakeholders in different ways. Understanding the stakeholders and analysing their interests helps in the better management of R&D projects. In this paper we discuss a methodology to systematically analyse the stakeholders of R&D projects. This methodology includes Freeman’s (1984) three levels of anal...

A systematic analysis of stakeholders could enrich the systems thinking and modelling methodology. Among the five phases of the systems thinking and modelling framework, namely, problem structuring, causal loop modelling, dynamic modelling, scenario planning & modelling, and implementation & organisational learning, the importance of stakeholder an...

Environmental conflict management involves the management of multiple stakeholders with conflicting stakes. In this paper, an attempt is made to develop a shared mental model of stakeholders in an environmental conflict. The Transmission Gully project, a large-scale transport infrastructure project in the Wellington region of New Zealand is used as...

There is an increasingly common argument in the environmental management literature that much of the environmental and resource management is the management of conflict. One of the challenges, while managing such environmental conflicts, is to understand the dynamics of stakeholders in terms of their changing positions and interests. In this paper...