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Overview

Carlos Mena is affiliated with Portland State University in the United States and specializes in the field of Business, Management and Accounting, with a focus on Strategy and Management, Management Information Systems, Sociology and Political Science, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, as well as Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality.

Their research interests encompass a range of topics including Supply Chain Resilience and Risk Management, Quality and Supply Management, Sustainable Supply Chain Management, Public Procurement and Policy, Innovation and Knowledge Management, Qualitative Comparative Analysis Research, and Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Carlos Mena include Heather Skipworth, Marko Bastl, Corrado Cerruti, Antonios Karatzas, and Robert Wiedmer.

They have published extensively in journals such as the International Journal of Operations & Production Management, the Journal of Business Research, the Journal of Business Logistics, the IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, and the European Management Journal.

Recent publications by Carlos Mena include:

  • International trade resilience and the Covid-19 pandemic, 2021, Journal of Business Research
  • The green contagion effect: an investigation into the propagation of environmental practices across multiple supply chains tiers, 2020, International Journal of Production Research

Other notable recent papers, although not authored by Mena, are relevant to their research field and often coauthored with close collaborators:

  • The Dark and Bright Sides of Complexity: A Dual Perspective on Supply Network Resilience, 2021, Journal of Business Logistics
  • Logistics and procurement outsourcing in the healthcare sector: A comparative analysis, 2020, European Management Journal
  • Supply Chain Resilience Assessment With Financial Considerations: A Bayesian Network-Based Method, 2021, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management

Best Publications

  • Product safety and security in the global supply chain: Issues, challenges and research opportunities

    Ann Marucheck;Noel Greis;Carlos Mena;Linning Cai

  • The causes of food waste in the supplier–retailer interface: Evidences from the UK and Spain

    Carlos Mena;B. Adenso-Diaz;Oznur Yurt

  • Approaches to managing global sourcing risk

    Martin Christopher;Carlos Mena;Omera Khan;Oznur Yurt

  • Toward a Theory of Multi-Tier Supply Chain Management

    Carlos Mena;Andrew Humphries;Thomas Y. Choi

  • Toward a three-dimensional framework for omni-channel

    Soroosh Saghiri;Richard D. Wilding;Carlos Mena;Michael Bourlakis

  • Supply chain management for servitised products: A multi-industry case study

    Mark Johnson;Carlos Mena

  • Causes of waste across multi-tier supply networks: Cases in the UK food sector

    Carlos Mena;Leon A. Terry;Adrian Williams;Lisa Ellram

  • QuickBird and Hyperion data analysis of an invasive plant species in the Galapagos Islands of Ecuador: Implications for control and land use management

    Stephen J. Walsh;Amy L. McCleary;Carlos F. Mena;Yang Shao

  • Socioeconomic Drivers of Deforestation in the Northern Ecuadorian Amazon

    Carlos F. Mena;Richard E. Bilsborrow;Michael E. McClain

  • International trade resilience and the Covid-19 pandemic

    Carlos Mena;Antonios Karatzas;Carsten Hansen

  • Land use change: complexity and comparisons

    Ronald R. Rindfuss;Barbara Entwisle;Stephen J. Walsh;Li An

  • E-procurement in the Greek food and drink industry: Drivers and impediments

    Vassilios Tatsis;Carlos Mena;Luk N. Van Wassenhove;Linda Whicker

  • Land Use Change on Household Farms in the Ecuadorian Amazon: Design and Implementation of an Agent-Based Model.

    Carlos F. Mena;Stephen J. Walsh;Brian G. Frizzelle;Yao Xiaozheng

  • Understanding the relationships between time and cost to improve supply chain performance

    L. Whicker;M. Bernon;S. Templar;C. Mena

  • Frontier Land Use Change: Synthesis, Challenges, and Next Steps

    Ronald R. Rindfuss;Barbara Entwisle;Stephen J. Walsh;Carlos F. Mena

  • Scenario planning for tourism management: a participatory and system dynamics model applied to the Galapagos Islands of Ecuador

    Francesco Pizzitutti;Stephen J. Walsh;Ronald R. Rindfuss;Reck Gunter

  • Complexity theory, spatial simulation models, and land use dynamics in the Northern Ecuadorian Amazon

    Stephen J. Walsh;Joseph P. Messina;Carlos F. Mena;George P. Malanson

  • Land tenure and deforestation patterns in the Ecuadorian Amazon: Conflicts in land conservation in frontier settings

    Joseph P. Messina;Stephen J. Walsh;Carlos F. Mena;Paul L. Delamater

  • The impact of supply network characteristics on reliability

    Belarmino Adenso‐Diaz;Carlos Mena;Santiago García‐Carbajal;Merrill Liechty

  • Pressure on the Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve: Development and Land Use/Cover Change in the Northern Ecuadorian Amazon

    Carlos F. Mena;Alisson F. Barbieri;Stephen J. Walsh;Christine M. Erlien

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard E. Bilsborrow
Richard E. Bilsborrow University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Ronald R. Rindfuss
Ronald R. Rindfuss University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Belarmino Adenso-Díaz
Belarmino Adenso-Díaz University of Oviedo
Barbara Entwisle
Barbara Entwisle University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Emilio F. Moran
Emilio F. Moran Michigan State University
Tim Hess
Tim Hess Cranfield University
Leon A. Terry
Leon A. Terry Cranfield University
Mateus Batistella
Mateus Batistella Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation
Thomas Rudel
Thomas Rudel Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research
Paul J. Burgess
Paul J. Burgess Cranfield University

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