Mahak Sharma

• PhD
• Indian Institute of Management Mumbai

Circular Economy Platform Twente (CEP Twente) is a collaborative initiative between the academicians and students of the five faculties of the University of Twente (UT) and Green Hub Twente. It is founded by 16 circular economy enthusiasts from UT, with a seed fund granted by UT’s Climate Centre.

Purpose Supply chains need to be made viable in this volatile and competitive market, which could be possible through digitalization. This study is an attempt to explore the role of Industry 4.0, smart supply chain, supply chain agility and supply chain resilience on sustainable business performance from the lens of natural resource-based view. De...

Emerging economies, at the vanguard of extensive resource depletion and limited environmental stewardship, are worst‐hit by climate change events, necessitating an extensive investigation of the relevance of I4.0 in attaining sustainable consumption and production patterns. This study focuses on Sustainable Production and Consumption (SDG12) and in...

The COVID-19 outbreak in 2020–2021 caused unprecedented disruptions to global supply networks. Companies worldwide faced significant challenges as they dealt with the unexpected surge in demand for specific goods and services. This study delves into the importance of supply chain coordination (SCCO), supply chain resilience (SCRE), and supply chain...

Purpose The study examined a wide range of proactive supply chain practices to demonstrate a cross-linkage among them and to understand their effects on both practitioners of previous decision-making models, frameworks, strategies and policies. Here, six supply chain practices are empirically evaluated based on 28 constructs to investigate a compre...

Purpose This paper aims to examine the dynamism of causal relationships among cloud computing (CC) adoption factors in the Indian context, considering the perspectives of both the cloud adopter and cloud provider. Design/methodology/approach The case-study method has been used to understand the dynamics among the factors. Using data from specific...

Industry 4.0 (I4.0) is helping production units to become smarter using cyber-physical systems and cognitive intelligence. The advanced diagnostics with I4.0 technologies (I4.0t) help in making the process highly flexible, resilient and autonomous. Still, the adoption of I4.0t especially in emerging economies like India is at a very slow pace. The...

Cloud computing (CC) is a revolution that can provide information technology (IT) as a service. CC offers infrastructure, platform, and software services, as demand peaks and surges. This paper aims to investigate how prospective adopters behave when external factors such as "Coronavirus Pandemic-COVID-19" impact their technology adoption decision-...

Sustainability has always been a concern of humankind in one form or the other. Still, it has come into sharper focus after the promulgation of the sustainable development goals in 2015 and the disruptive forces unleashed by the COVID‐19 pandemic. Supply chain management is an aspect of business operations wherein the need for sustainability has be...

Unlabelled: The existing research on fresh food supply chains (FFSC) sustainability consisting of fur fundamental pillars, namely green (G), resilient (R), agile (A), and sustainability (S) (hereafter GRAS), is explored sparsely and needs thorough investigation. Further, conceptualization and mutual interactions among GRAS enablers that can help p...

The present study aims to analyze "Innovation Management" using a bibliometric technique. To this aim, Web of Science (WOS) citation database was used to extract the articles. Then, the received files were combined and integrated using Bibexcel. In the next step, the data were illustrated and analyzed by R Studio and R package. The results identifi...

Food organizations have seen pressure from stakeholders, consumers, governments, and other international agencies to adopt sustainable practices in their business operations. Sustainable development is the current need for the agri-food sector to achieve the sustainable development goals (SDG) established by the United Nations. Sustainable developm...

The dynamic market environment has asserted that small and medium enterprises (SMEs), especially in the manufacturing sector, need to reassess their supply chain pursuits and effectively inculcate sustainable initiatives through digitalisation. Twenty-one barriers are identified, and fifteen solution initiatives (SI) have been suggested based on an...

Blockchain (BLC) and the Internet of Things (IoT) are two emerging technologies that have become popular among practitioners for improving the transparency, adaptability, and safety of any industry. This is especially critical for food security, as COVID-19 highlighted the vulnerability of food supply chain (FSC). However, Indian organizations are...

The recent COVID-19 pandemic has caused enormous disruptions to supply chain (SCs). Border restrictions forced countless businesses to close either permanently or temporarily. However, the food industry is an essential sector that needs to be operational during a pandemic. Although the food industry has proactively worked towards fulfilling human n...

Purpose Today, proficient practices are required to stimulate along various boundaries of the supply chain (SC) to exploit manufacturing resources economically, effectually and gracefully for retaining operational excellence. Accordingly, varieties of paramount practices, i.e. Lean, Agile, Resilient and Green practices, are integrated in present st...

Supply chains have been challenged by the Covid’19 Pandemic more seriously than ever before. A global health crisis left supply chain managers with solutions developed for limited and foreseeable crises. This paper aims to understand how well existing solutions served to build supply chain resilience in UK perishable goods market. In line with the...

Emergence of industry 5.0 facilitates real-time synchronisation of production processes, which helps with the production of customized products. Although industry 5.0 can revolutionize the landscape of goods production, still its adoption is in the infancy stage. Hence, the purpose of this article is to examine barriers that impede the adoption of...

Agri-produce holds an inimitable place in human-life across the globe. It is an inevitable requirement of livelihoods across the globe. Advanced technologies to improve multiple aspects of agriculture have been developed in recent years. The blockchain technology (BCT) is among these technologies that is proving to be pivotal in supporting business...

This study investigates the impact of supplier visibility on the adoption of sustainable practices and supply chain performance. The paper applies contingent Resource-Based View to explain how information sharing with customers & suppliers and supply chain traceability has influenced visibility; visibility has impacted supply chain velocity sustain...

Purpose Cloud computing (CC) services have given a tremendous boost to the creation of efficient and effective solutions. With developing countries at a slow pace of adoption, this research aims to identify factors and their interrelationships influencing the adoption of CC in a developing country context. The developing countries are enjoying nume...

The paper presents a comprehensive framework exploring determinants of hotel booking intentions among e-service users of hospitality products/services. The study adopted a sequential exploratory strategy (SES) to gather the data using an open-ended questionnaire designed after a thorough evaluation of the relevant determinants from the literature....

The tourism and hospitality sector's inequitable environment demands an unassailable and disruptive technology that optimizes its operational efficiencies. Thus, this paper aims to explore the nature of blockchain technology under varying conditions for consumer benefits. Academic and press articles followed by interviews from industry experts were...

This work reviews the various concepts of management of technology (MOT) and investigates the application of agent-based modelling (ABM) in MOT decision making. It draws the knowledge acquired from the literature review in MOT field for the past two and a half decades. This paper accentuates the importance of evolution with respect to the swift pac...

Achieving sustainable supply chain performance in a multi-tier manufacturing supply chain to curtail the non-environmental-friendly practices is one of the most significant challenges. Industry 4.0 advancements in technology not only fosters sustainable supply chain initiatives that can maximize economic gains but also reduce environmental impacts...

Achieving sustainable supply chain performance in a multi-tier manufacturing supply chain to curtail the non-environmental-friendly practices is one of the most significant challenges. Industry 4.0 advancements in technology not only fosters sustainable supply chain initiatives that can maximize economic gains but also reduce environmental impacts...

Purpose This study aims to identify the critical factors (barriers and drivers) influencing the adoption of cloud computing (ACC) in the manufacturing sector in India. Design/methodology/approach In this study, a mixed methodology approach is used. Interviews are conducted to investigate factors (drivers and barriers) influencing the ACC, which ar...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to presents an analysis of geographically and disciplinary scattered academic publications of cloud computing (CC) research in information systems. This review aims to understand the research methodology, research frameworks and models, geographical distribution, trends, critical factors and causal relationships...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the main determinants (criteria as well as sub-criteria) influencing the adoption decision of cloud computing (CC) in the healthcare sector. In the present study, qualitative interviews and the Delphi method are used to find the relevance of identified determinants (criteria and sub-criteria) from literat...

Cloud Computing (CC) is a paradigm shift with the potential of transforming the information and communication technology (ICT) industry. ICT is an integral part of all businesses, and CC helps in lightening the burden of massive ICT investments. Thus, it is essential to understand the factors that influence CC adoption. The purpose of this study is...

Information and communication technologies (ICT) are changing the ways of imparting education, providing learning opportunities and enhancing institutional performance. Cloud Computing (CC) helps in lightening the burden of massive technology investments required for improving performance. However, CC adoption in higher educational institutes in In...