Dr Vahid Mirzabeiki

Senior Lecturer in Operations Management

BSc, MSc, Tekn.Lic., PhD, MCMI, SFHEA

v.mirzabeiki@surrey.ac.uk

13 MS 02

Academic and research departments

Business Analytics and Operations, Institute for Sustainability.

About

Biography

Dr. Vahid Mirzabeiki is a Senior Lecturer in Operations Management at the Department of Business Analytics & Operations of Surrey Business School. He is also the Research Liaisons Coordinator of the department. He is a Sustainability Fellow with the Institute for Sustainability.

Vahid’s research is published in several world-leading journals, including the International Journal of Operations & Production Management, International Journal of Production Research, International Journal of Production Economics, Journal of Business Research, Production Planning & Control, International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management, The International Journal of Logistics Management, British Food Journal, and other top scientific and industrial outlets. He has written several book chapters, industrial outlet articles, white papers and published teaching cases. Vahid is a member of the Editorial Review Board of the International Journal of Operations and Production Management and reviews papers for several leading journals of operations and supply chain management. He has secured funding and as Principal Investigator has led several research projects including from the UK Research and Innovation (UK RI) Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). He has organised and chaired workshops and sessions at prestigious international conferences including EurOMA and POMS annual meetings.

Vahid is the winner of the Surrey Business School Mid-Career Researcher of the Year Award 2021/22.

Prior to joining Surrey, for five years (2013-2018) he held the positions of Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer in Supply Chain Management at Cranfield University School of Management. Between 2018-2020 he worked as a Senior Lecturer in Operations Management and the Director of the Executive MBA Apprenticeship programme at Coventry University Business School, where he was a key contributor to winning a £0.5 million contract from the Ministry of Justice of the United Kingdom.

Vahid has received his MSc and PhD in supply chain management from Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden. He has received his Post Graduate Certificate (PGCert) in Academic Practice from Cranfield University. Vahid is a Senior Fellow of Higher Education Academy (SFHEA) and a Member of Chartered Management Institute (MCMI).

Through several research and consulting projects, he has worked with leading organisations in Sweden and the UK, including DHL, Volvo, Nestlé, Pladis, GS1, and Swedish Transport Administration. He is constantly involved in very practically-relevant research in collaboration with innovative organisations.

Besides research, authorship, consultancy and company advising, he has more than fourteen years of experience in advanced teaching and module and programme leadership. Vahid has been invited by leading universities as a guest speaker. He is a Visiting Lecturer at Bayes Business School (City, University of London), and he has had supervision roles at Trinity College Dublin. He is External Examiner at Middlesex University Business School.

Vahid is leading the Supply Chain Design, Planning and Analysis module in the Business Analytics MSc programme at Surrey Business School.

My qualifications

2013

PhD in Supply Chain Management

Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

2017

PGCert in Academic Practice

Cranfield University, UK

2010

Tekn.Lic. (Licentiate) in Supply Chain Management

Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

2008

MSc in Supply Chain Management

Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

2005

BSc in Mechanical Engineering

University of Tehran

Affiliations and memberships

SFHEA

Senior Fellow of Higher Education Academy

MCMI

Member of Chartered Management Institute

News

19 JAN 2024

Surrey researcher receives funding to support SME adoption of digital currencies

Research

Research interests

Vahid's main themes of research include:

Digitalisation of supply chains, focusing on traceability and blockchain applications
Omnichannel integration, including data management aspects
Collaboration-led sustainability in supply chains, including procurement and supplier performance management aspects
Co-opetition in supply chains
Resilience of supply chains
Food supply chain management

Vahid is currently leading four research projects on the topics above. Furthermore, as the Principal Investigator he is leading the project ‘Retail Central Bank Digital Currency for Businesses and Household: Opportunities and Challenges’, funded by UK RI Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) (December 2023-November 2024).

He has been a project lead and a co-investigator on a number of research and consulting projects funded by major industrial clients. A few of his previous projects include:

'Co-opetition in UK Logistics Industry' (2016-2017), funded by Cranfield University School of Management (project lead).
'GS1 Standards for Managing the Cost to Serve in Apparel Supply Chains' (2016), funded by GS1 UK (project lead).
‘Project Step Change in Agri-Food Logistics Ecosystems (SCALE) (2013-2015), funded by Interreg NWE, EU, in collaboration with DHL Supply Chain (Vahid worked as a full-time Senior Research Fellow at Cranfield University for two years on this project).
‘Intelligent Industrial Goods and ERP Systems’ (2008-2010), funded by Swedish Transport Administration (Vahid's PhD studies were mainly funded through this project).
‘Intelligent Excavation’ (2017-2018), funded by Highways England (co-investigator).

Supervision

Postgraduate research supervision

I am currently supervising Dr Nikolai Kazantsev, postdoctoral Research Fellow on the 'Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) for small and medium-sized businesses and supply chains project' funded by ESRC IAA

Teaching

Supply Chain Design, Planning and Analysis (MANM532) (module leader)
Supply Chain Management (MAN3101)
Executive Convenience Leadership Programme
Operations Management (MAN1059)

Publications

Saghiri, Soroosh, Mirzabeiki, Vahid (2021) “Buyer-led environmental supplier development: can suppliers really help it?”, International Journal of Production Economics (ABS 3*), Vol. 233, p.107969.

Mirzabeiki, Vahid, Saghiri, Soroosh (2020) "From ambition to action: How to achieve integration in omni-channel?", Journal of Business Research (ABS 3*), Vol. 110, pp. 1-11

Mirzabeiki, Vahid; Humphries, Andrew, Wilding, Richard (2017) “Co-opetition in UK Logistics Industry”, Logistics and Transport Focus (CILT’s magazine), April.

Mirzabeiki, Vahid, Roso, Violeta, Sjöholm, Per (2016) “Collaborative tracking and tracing applied on dry ports”, International Journal of Logistics Systems and Management (ABS 1*), Vol. 25, No. 3, 425-440.

Danloup, Nicolas, Mirzabeiki, Vahid, Allaoui, Hamid, Goncalves, Gilles, Julien, Denyse Mena, Carlos (2015) “Reducing transportation greenhouse gas emissions with collaborative distribution: A case study”, Management Research Review (ABS 1*), Vol. 38 No. 10, pp.1049 - 1067.

Mirzabeiki, Vahid (2014) “Last mile: Benefits on board”, Automotive Logistics, Vol. January-March 2014, p. 70.

Mirzabeiki, Vahid, Holmström, Jan, Främling, Kary (2014) “Collaborative Tracking and Tracing: The Value of a Composite Design”, International Journal of Logistics Management (ABS 1*), Vol.25 No.3, pp. 522 - 536.

Mirzabeiki, Vahid and Ringsberg, Henrik (2014) “Effects on logistic operations from RFID- and EPCIS-enabled traceability”, British Food Journal (ABS 1*), Vol. 116, No. 1, pp. 104-124.

Mirzabeiki, Vahid (2013) “An Overview of the Freight Intelligent Transportation Systems”, International Journal of Logistics Systems and Management (ABS 1*), Vol. 14, No. 4, pp.473-489.

Mirzabeiki, Vahid, Holmström, Jan, Sjöholm, Per (2012) “Aligning Organizational Interests in Rail Wagon Tracking”, Operations Management Research (ABS 1*), Vol. 5, No. 3-4, pp. 101-115.

Mirzabeiki, Vahid and Sjöholm, Per (2012) “Sharing, tracking and tracing data to improve operations of Supply Chain actors”, International Journal of Logistics Systems and Management (ABS 1*), Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 81-95.

Lumsden, Kenth and Mirzabeiki, Vahid (2008) "Determining the value of information for different partners in the supply chain", International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management (ABS 2*), Vol. 38 No.9, pp. 659-673.

Mena, Carlos, Julien Denyse, Mirzabeiki, Vahid (2016) ‘Chapter 15: Collaboration for sustainability in food supply chains’, in ‘A Stakeholder Approach to Managing Food’ by Lindgreen, A., Hingley, M. K., Angell, R. J., & Memery, J. (Eds.), Routledge.

Mirzabeiki, Vahid (2016) ‘Data Sharing Between Supply Chain Actors’, in ‘Logistics, Supply Chain and Operations Management Case Study Collection’ by David Grant, Kogan Page Publishing, UK.

Mirzabeiki, Vahid (2016) ‘Collaborative Distribution Considering Economic and Environmental Performance’, in ‘Logistics, Supply Chain and Operations Management Case Study Collection’ by David Grant, Kogan Page Publishing, UK.

Mirzabeiki, Vahid (2016) ‘Supply Chain Design for E-Retailers’, in ‘Logistics, Supply Chain and Operations Management Case Study Collection’ by David Grant, Kogan Page Publishing, UK.

Saghiri, Soroosh, Mirzabeiki, Vahid (2021) "Omni-channel integration: the matter of information and digital technology", International Journal of Operations and Production Management (ABS 4), Vol. 41 No. 11, pp. 1660-1710

Mirzabeiki, Vahid, He, Qile, Sarpong, David (2022) Sustainability-driven co-opetition in supply chains as strategic capabilities: Drivers, facilitators, and barriers, International Journal of Production Research (ABS 3*), Accepted/Forthcoming

Mirzabeiki, Vahid; Aitken, James (2023) “Panarchy-based transformative supply chain resilience: The role of supply chain capital”, International Journal of Operations and Production Management (ABS 4), Vol. 43 No. 1, pp. 99-139

Soroosh Saghiri; Maryam Mohammadipour; Vahid Mirzabeiki (2024) Revisiting operations agility and formalizing digitalization in response to varying levels of uncertainty and customization, Production Planning & Control (ABS 3*), Forthcoming DOI:
10.1080/09537287.2024.2321290