Giannis Tsoulfas

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• Doctor of Industrial Management & Technology
• Professor (Associate) at Agricultural University of Athens

This paper presents a comprehensive literature review and analysis of sustainable biomass exploitation strategies, focusing on agro-waste residues and animal excreta. The research explores potential microalgal cultivation and utilization as a promising, low-energy alternative biomass source. While many production pathways are technologically feasib...

Purpose This study aims to examine the challenges and risks in public procurement, focusing on Greece’s context within the EU framework. It seeks to provide guidance on mitigating potential risks throughout different stages of public procurement by leveraging the knowledge of Greek professionals and existing literature. The research explores the im...

Research purpose The purpose of this study is to analyse the progress of the Baltic Sea Region countries in implementing the LNOB in a short-term trend. The study seeks to identify the stability of progress in a five-year period and examine which LNOB index dimensions and the sustainable development goals pose the greatest challenges in ensuring th...

Background: Green Public Procurement (GPP) is a sector that has been growing in recent years through policies encouraged by the European Union. In the Greek public sector, the respective National Action Plan (NAP), which sets specific targets for GPP, has very recently come into force. However, although the influencing factors that contribute to th...

Short urban agri-food supply chains are an effective way to promote sustainability, viability, local economy and food security. This venture requires collaboration and knowledge from different disciplines, such as agriculture, food processing, logistics, sustainable economy, social innovation, engineering and ICT. However, there are many gaps in th...

The agri-food complex constitutes a critical sector in the discourse of sustainable transitions, with the corresponding stakeholders covering the primary, secondary, and tertiary sectors. Similarly, supply chain management is a complex process for any type of organisation or product, with a significant contribution to its environmental footprint. T...

The healthcare supply chain, a critical part of the healthcare sector, involves the planning, procurement, storage, and distribution of medical necessities. With the advent of Industry 4.0 technologies, there is an opportunity to transform and enhance the resilience and sustainability of these supply chains. The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the...

The consumption of honey has gained significant attention in recent years due to its numerous health benefits. It is important to understand the role of consumers in the honey supply chain, as their preferences have a substantial impact on industry practices. Consumer demand for high-quality, safe, and sustainable honey encourages producers to impr...

Purpose Franchising contributes significantly to national economies but is overlooked in supply chain literature. This study aims to contribute to the franchising and supply chain literature by examining how the digitisation of the franchising supply chain improves firm performance. Design/methodology/approach A single longitudinal case study appr...

Background: Although trust is a well-studied topic in supply chain management, the case of the wine supply chain has not been adequately investigated. Methods: A hybrid approach combining qualitative and quantitative data analysis was adopted. The research was divided into two phases: (i) identification of critical factors based on the literature,...

The agri-food supply chains are often characterized by poor sustainability performance, even though the triple bottom line is referred among the agri-food industry’s top priorities. The various and heterogeneous stakeholders involved in the agri-food supply chain, the contradictory objectives and business mentalities of the actors, and the complica...

This chapter aims to highlight the importance of combining risk and business continuity standardized management systems in the supply chain. For this purpose, a case study is presented of a Greek company active in logistics and dealing with the sale and distribution of medical devices. The company has been certified according to ISO 22301 standard...

Environmental awareness and growing worries about climate change, natural environment deterioration, and natural resource depletion have resulted in worldwide trends and push for a greener, more sustainable environment. Green supply chain management (GSCM) refers to the incorporation of environmental considerations and concerns into supply chain ma...

The Internet allows for more consumer and service provider interaction as well as more access to product and service information. Therefore, online customers now have more power of influence and negotiation than those in physical stores. The Internet shifted the power balance in favor of customers by allowing them to compare items and locate altern...

Blockchain is an evolving technology with promising applications in various sectors. The introduction of blockchain in the industry has the potential to provide a significant competitive advantage, even though it still is in the early stages of its adoption, particularly in supply chains. The implementation of blockchain technologies affects all th...

Recent developments in blockchain technology have enabled the development of wallet applications for storing peoples' cryptocurrency reserves. Cryptocurrency wallet applications could deploy affiliate marketing processes to increase the visibility of their products. From these affiliate marketing processes, supply chain firms in the air forwarding...

Green Public Procurement (GPP) is an essential strategy for achieving goals related to public environmental policy, including sustainable production and consumption, streamlined use of resources and mitigation of climate change. The European Union has adopted policies towards “greening” public procurement for member states in order to promote envir...

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) operations are becoming increasingly important for businesses throughout the world. It is critical to understand how stakeholders perceive these actions to achieve the intended CSR advantages. The nature of CSR motivation has been extensively discussed, yet there are still gaps in the literature, including CSR...

Sustainability is a prosperous field of research for the agri-food supply chain domain. Agri-food supply chain management is currently focused in achieving higher performance of agri-food supply chains. At the same time, sustainability is being promoted as a factor affecting the total effectiveness of agri-food supply chains. The aim of this paper...

Circular economy is a well know and promising model that has been studied and promoted for important environmental, economic and societal impacts. Bioeconomy is an emerging field, which is regarded as a possible pathway in order to reach a sustainable future. The adoption of the circular economy model for bio-based materials can bring fundamental c...

Short supply chains have recently gained increased attention because of the turbulence in the global environment caused by exogenous influences that create unstable and uncertain conditions. The emergence of short supply chains is of particular importance for sustainable development at large, but also for the viability of vulnerable communities and...

Resilience is proposed as one of the main characteristics a contemporary supply chain system should possess in order to deal with the uncertainties created by the latest environmental, economic, and social crises. Especially in the case of the agri-food supply chains, the need to ensure that they are capable of responding to such disruptions has st...

Over the last decade, digital marketing and technology have gradually penetrated the food and beverage industry, redefining its marketing mix. However, the urgency caused by the COVID-19 pandemic spurred the digital transformation of the industry, as businesses were forced to adapt to many changes and restrictions, reshape their operational models,...

Non-cyclical and high-leverage infrastructure projects, such as road transportation networks, have been considered as critical policy instruments to promote growth and social development. Yet, their growth-generating effect on the economic welfare of countries and regions has come under scrutiny in recent years: several studies have nuanced the imp...

In recent years, traceability systems have been developed as practical tools for improving supply chain (SC) transparency and visibility, especially in health and safety-sensitive sectors like food and pharmaceuticals. Blockchain-related SC traceability research has received significant attention during the last several years, and arguably blockcha...

The connection of the agri-food sector with the agenda of sustainable development comes naturally, as the chain from production to processing, trading, distribution and consumption is directly connected with significant issues in environmental, economic, and social realms. Today’s challenge for businesses is not whether to embrace sustainability, b...

The triple-a supply chain model focuses on ensuring the agility, adaptability, and alignment of the supply chains in order to develop a sustainable competitive advantage. These characteristics have extended the supply chain desired traits from just being cost-effective and responsive. The agri-food supply chains include a diverse range of products,...

Agri-food supply chains have a multitude of roles for the mankind. Among others, they encompass the primary, secondary and tertiary sectors of the economy; they are responsible for feeding the planet; they are associated with various environmental and social impacts. Therefore, their operation, efficiency and performance are crucial in many context...

Background: The purpose of this paper is to study customer satisfaction concerning orders from online supermarkets, which have recently boomed to fulfil the increased needs of customers during the COVID-19 pandemic. The service quality, as well as aspects of the logistics efficiency, are being examined, and the gaps between the expectations of peop...

During this pandemic crisis, supply chain management (SCM) has emerged as a critical source of competitive advantage driving organizational performance, especially in the agri-food sector, since public health and consumers’ confidence as well as firms’ survival depend on the effectiveness of supply chain networks. This study adopts two central SCM...

The purpose of this paper is to better understand the customers’ perceptions of corporate social responsibility (CSR) as well as to identify its impact on their buying intentions. In order to answer the main research questions, the study examines, through the review of literature and the conduction of empirical analysis, the conceptual transformati...

In the times when world population is increasing while available farmland is decreasing, pesticides have become a necessity guaranteeing food production and enhanced productivity. However, through the years of pesticides use and the advancement in environmental and health sciences many adverse effects in human health and the environment have been r...

Business Process Reengineering (BPR) is the radical transformation of an organization’s structure, culture, and business processes aiming at the improvement of factors such as cost, quality, service, and speed, which questions the core of an organization’s way to do everyday business. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementation is also a proc...

This paper aims to investigate the training requirements of diverse target groups engaged with logistics and supply chain management in the agri-food industry focusing on cereals and rice, and deploy the findings for the development of an e-training program. A field research was conducted with personal interviews to mainly logistics department supe...

Although supply chain management acts as a catalyst for national economy predicting sustainable growth and building competitive advantage, little attention has been paid to the necessary specific skills and competencies. This paper aims to investigate which specific skills may improve performance at the organisational and supply chain level. A fiel...

The introduction of specific and measurable objectives in the public sector is a practice that seeks to increase the efficiency of public services. This is done with their clear and acceptable identification, both at an individual and organisational level, their measurement with specific indicators and the benchmarking of the results. Goal setting...

Fleets of fuel supply vessels are used to provide ships anchored in ports with different oil products. Demand is satisfied based on a pull system, where oil shipments are triggered by orders placed by customers and delivered on a specific agreed time window. The aim of this paper is to suggest proper scheduling policies for a fleet of fuel supply v...

In the modern era of internationalization, interconnection and rapid technological changes the obligation of the public sector to provide the best possible services to citizens have become challenging tasks. The incorporation of Total Quality Management principles and tools in public services can prove to be decisive given that they contribute to t...

The increasing environmental concerns and the technological advances have boosted the post-use treatment of nearly all kinds of products and a new area for research and application has emerged described by the term “reverse logistics.” In this chapter, parameters that may affect reverse logistics operation are discussed from a decision-making persp...

This paper examines whether electronically developed countries are gaining more from investments in information and communication technology (ICT) products. Previous research in the field has extensively used the GDP per capita as an index for country categorization into developed, emerging and developing. Instead, we make use of the UN’s electroni...