Research

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Interviews, Webinars, and Panel Discussions
  1. Project 13/nPlan: How to accelerate the building of trust in the construction industry?
  2. Al Jazeera: Workers begin strike at UK’s largest shipping container port
  3. Al Jazeera: What’s driving up food prices worldwide?
  4. Al Jazeera: What is the causing the global goods shortage?
  5. Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC): Worldwide shipping costs skyrocketing as system descends into crisis
  6. Association for Project Management: Swimming With the Big Fish – Integrating SMEs into complex supply chain
  7. Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Society: Supply Chains: Their importance and their fragility
  8. University College London: Grenfell Tower Inquiry— The fundamental problem of co-ordination and procuring building services and contracts
  9. Project X: An overview of my association and collaboration with Project X
Podcasts
  1. Meet me at the top, CIPS; Meet Jas Kalra (PhD, MCIPS) The Supply Chain Research Impresario: Apple, Spotify
  2. Association for Project Management; From the frontline, How to improve project performance: Apple, Spotify, Anchor (The podcast is based on a report co-authored with Project X colleagues, I join the podcast to talk about Project Supply Chains at about 35 minute mark).
  3. Al Jazeera: What’s causing the global supply crunch: Spotify

Academic articles

  1. International Journal of Operations & Production Management: Governance adaptation in technology sourcing: A dynamic problem-solving perspective (2025)
  2. International Journal of Production Economics: Orchestrating governance reconfiguration of inter-organisational project networks to address coordination failures (2025)
  3. Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management: Improving supplier diversity and inclusion in supply chains (2024)
  4. International Journal of Operations & Production Management: Governance, cooperation, and coordination in large inter-organisational project networks (2024)
  5. Journal of Operations Management: Network Orchestration in a large inter-organisational project (2023)
  6. Oxford Handbook of Supply Chain Management: The decision process of contracting in supply chain management (2021)
  7. Supply Chain Management: The manifestation of coordination failures in service triads (2021)
  8. Production Planning and Control: Inter-organisational governance: A review, conceptualisation, and extension (2020)

Thought-pieces

  1. The Conversation: Red Sea Crisis: with fears of UK tea shortage, worries are brewing over other crucial commodities (2024)
  2. Case Study, Lifely Wellness Ltd: Micro-business operations strategy and supplier management (2024)
  3. The Conversation: The UK Carbon Dioxide crisis still hasn’t been resolved— here are some long-term answers (2022)
  4. APM Project Journal: Rethinking capabilities: Lessons for policy, scholarship and practice (2021)
  5. APM Project Journal: Rethinking capabilities (Issue 309, Winter 2021)
  6. The Conversation: Three things that could help save Christmas 2021 from shortages (2021)
  7. University of Bath IPR Blog: Responding to and recovering from supply chain disruptions such as COVID-19 (2020)
  8. APM Project Journal: Swimming with the big fish (Issue 300, Autumn 2019)
  9. National Centre for Universities and Business: HPC: Orchestrating industrial collaboration to address UK’s economic and social challenges (2019)
  10. The Conversation: How to not run out of beer (or soft drinks, or chicken)— by supply chain experts (2018)
  11. The Conversation: Why marvels of engineering require miracles of project management (2018)
  12. Retail Gazette: What’s behind the surge of collaborations in retail? (2018)
  13. University of Bath IPR Blog: Leveraging supply chain to tackle Brexit: Opportunities and challenges for firms and industrial strategy (2018)
  14. National Centre for Universities and Business: Unlocking social and economic value in mega projects through the ‘Golden Triangle’ (2018)

Teaching cases

  1. Case Study, Hinkley Point C: Global or Local? Making location decisions in supply chain design (2018)
  2. Case Study, Hinkley Point C: Supplier Development: Developing and scaling the capabilities of local SMEs (2018)
Policy and Practice Contributions
  1. Institute of Civil Engineers: A systems approach to infrastructure delivery
  2. Constructing Excellence: Procuring for productivity: Transforming procurement to become the enabler (Section #6: Continuous Improvement)
Teaching
  1. Postgraduate module: Supply Chain Management (Taught at University College London)
  2. Postgraduate module: Strategic Supply Chain Management (Taught at Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Bath)
  3. Postgraduate module: Strategic Service Management (Taught at Bayes Business School)
  4. Postgraduate module: Project Management (Taught at Newcastle University, Bayes Business School)
  5. Postgraduate module: Service Operations Management (Taught at Newcastle University)