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Jan Olhager

Jan Olhager

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Business and Management
Sweden
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Business and Management

D-Index
49
Citations
11506
World Ranking
1045
National Ranking
10

Engineering and Technology

D-Index
48
Citations
11376
World Ranking
4489
National Ranking
33

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Business and Management in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Business and Management in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Business and Management in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Business and Management in Sweden Leader Award

Overview

Jan Olhager is affiliated with Lund University in Sweden and has contributed extensively to the field of Business, Management and Accounting, with a focus on several subfields including Management Information Systems, Strategy and Management, Management of Technology and Innovation, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, and Management Science and Operations Research.

The main topics of Jan Olhager's research encompass Quality and Supply Management, Outsourcing and Supply Chain Management, Sustainable Supply Chain Management, Product Development and Customization, Supply Chain Resilience and Risk Management, Digital Transformation in Industry, and International Business and Foreign Direct Investment.

Jan Olhager has published in several prominent academic journals with notable frequency in the following venues:

  • International Journal of Production Research
  • Production Planning & Control
  • Journal of Business Logistics
  • International Journal of Engineering Business Management
  • International Journal of Production Economics

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Jan Olhager include:

  • Linking plant roles and operations strategy decision-making autonomy in international manufacturing networks, 2021, International Journal of Production Research
  • Managing extended supply chains, 2021, Journal of Business Logistics
  • Guiding organizations in the digital era: Tools and metrics for success, 2025, International Journal of Engineering Business Management
  • A case survey of offshoring-backshoring cases: The influence of contingency factors, 2022, International Journal of Production Economics
  • The customer order decoupling point in empirical operations and supply chain management research: a systematic literature review and framework, 2024, International Journal of Production Research

Jan Olhager has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Ravi Kalaiarasan
  • Magnus Wiktorsson
  • Magnus Harfeldt-Berg
  • Tarun Kumar Agrawal
  • Thomas Y. Choi

Best Publications

  • Supply chain integration and performance: The effects of long-term relationships, information technology and sharing, and logistics integration

    Daniel Indarto Prajogo;Jan Olhager

  • Strategic positioning of the order penetration point

    Jan Olhager

  • Lean and agile manufacturing: external and internal drivers and performance outcomes

    Mattias Hallgren;Jan Olhager

  • Manufacturing networks and supply chains : An operations strategy perspective

    Martin Rudberg;Jan Olhager

  • Performance simulation of supply chain designs

    Fredrik Persson;Jan Olhager

  • Enterprise resource planning survey of Swedish manufacturing firms

    Jan Olhager;Erik Selldin

  • Long-term capacity management: Linking the perspectives from manufacturing strategy and sales and operations planning

    Jan Olhager;Martin Rudberg;Joakim Wikner

  • Supply chain processes: Linking supply logistics integration, supply performance, lean processes, and competitive performance

    Daniel Indarto Prajogo;Adegoke Oke;Jan Erik Olhager

  • Supply chain evolution – theory, concepts and science

    Bart L. MacCarthy;Constantin Blome;Jan Olhager;Jagjit Singh Srai

  • Manufacturing facility location and sustainability: A literature review and research agenda

    Lujie Chen;Jan Olhager;Ou Tang

  • The role of the customer order decoupling point in production and supply chain management

    Jan Olhager

  • Supply chain management survey of Swedish manufacturing firms

    Jan Olhager;Erik Selldin

  • Linking products with supply chains: testing Fisher's model

    Erik Selldin;Jan Olhager

  • Information sharing across multiple supply chain tiers: A Delphi study on antecedents

    Joakim Kembro;Dag Näslund;Jan Olhager

  • Manufacturing backshoring : a systematic literature review

    Jan Stentoft;Jan Olhager;Jussi Heikkilä;Lisa Thoms

  • Advances in Production Management Systems

    Jan Olhager;Fredrik Persson

  • An integrated push-pull manufacturing strategy

    Jan Olhager;Björn Östlund

  • The house of flexibility: using the QFD approach to deploy manufacturing flexibility

    Jan Olhager;B. Martin West

  • Industrial service profiling : Matching service offerings and processes

    Pontus Johansson;Jan Olhager

  • Flexibility configurations: Empirical analysis of volume and product mix flexibility

    Mattias Hallgren;Mattias Hallgren;Jan Olhager

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel Indarto Prajogo
Daniel Indarto Prajogo Monash University
Ou Tang
Ou Tang Linköping University
Miia Martinsuo
Miia Martinsuo University of Turku
Sven Axsäter
Sven Axsäter Lund University
Roger G. Schroeder
Roger G. Schroeder University of Minnesota
Christian Kowalkowski
Christian Kowalkowski Linköping University
Lars Witell
Lars Witell Karlstad University
Jiuh-Biing Sheu
Jiuh-Biing Sheu National Taiwan University
Robert W. Grubbström
Robert W. Grubbström Linköping University
Patrik Thollander
Patrik Thollander Linköping University

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