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Australia
2026

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Business and Management

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130
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Engineering and Technology

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124
Citations
54958
World Ranking
41
National Ranking
2

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Business and Management in Australia Leader Award
  • 2026 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Australia Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Business and Management in Australia Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Australia Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Business and Management in Denmark Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Business and Management in Denmark Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Denmark Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Denmark Leader Award

Overview

Kannan Govindan is affiliated with the University of Adelaide in Australia. Their research primarily focuses on Business, Management and Accounting, with a significant emphasis on subfields such as Strategy and Management, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Management Information Systems, Marketing, and Management Science and Operations Research.

The scientist's work covers a variety of main topics, notably:

  • Sustainable Supply Chain Management
  • Supply Chain Resilience and Risk Management
  • Recycling and Waste Management Techniques
  • Environmental Sustainability in Business
  • Quality and Supply Management
  • Supply Chain and Inventory Management
  • Multi-Criteria Decision Making

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Kannan Govindan include:

  • Devika Kannan
  • Hassan Mina
  • Ieva Meidutė-Kavaliauskienė
  • Niamat Ullah Ibne Hossain
  • Jyoti Dhingra Darbari

The majority of their publications appear in the following venues:

  • Journal of Cleaner Production
  • Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review
  • International Journal of Production Economics
  • Annals of Operations Research
  • Business Strategy and the Environment

Kannan Govindan has contributed to several notable papers including:

  • "A decision support system for demand management in healthcare supply chains considering the epidemic outbreaks: A case study of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)," 2020, Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review
  • "Social sustainability tensions in multi-tier supply chain: A systematic literature review towards conceptual framework development," 2020, Journal of Cleaner Production

Other important papers in their network and field (authored by others) include:

  • "Industry 4.0 based sustainable circular economy approach for smart waste management system to achieve sustainable development goals: A case study of Indonesia," 2020, Journal of Cleaner Production
  • "Internet of Things (IoT) adoption barriers of smart cities' waste management: An Indian context," 2020, Journal of Cleaner Production
  • "On the sustainable perishable food supply chain network design: A dairy products case to achieve sustainable development goals," 2020, Journal of Cleaner Production

Kannan Govindan's book publications include works published by Springer Nature and the European Organization for Nuclear Research, such as "Advances in Computing and Intelligent Systems" (2020) and "Advances in Computing and Intelligent Systems Proceedings of ICACM 2019" (2020).

Best Publications

  • Reverse logistics and closed-loop supply chain: A comprehensive review to explore the future

    Kannan Govindan;Hamed Soleimani;Devika Kannan

  • Quantitative models for sustainable supply chain management: Developments and directions

    Marcus Brandenburg;Marcus Brandenburg;Kannan Govindan;Joseph Sarkis;Stefan Seuring

  • Multi criteria decision making approaches for green supplier evaluation and selection: a literature review

    Kannan Govindan;Sivakumar Rajendran;Joseph Sarkis;P. Murugesan

  • An analysis of the drivers affecting the implementation of green supply chain management

    Ali Diabat;Kannan Govindan

  • A fuzzy multi criteria approach for measuring sustainability performance of a supplier based on triple bottom line approach

    Kannan Govindan;Roohollah Khodaverdi;Ahmad Jafarian

  • A systematic review on drivers, barriers, and practices towards circular economy: a supply chain perspective

    Kannan Govindan;Mia Hasanagic

  • Barriers analysis for green supply chain management implementation in Indian industries using analytic hierarchy process

    Kannan Govindan;Mathiyazhagan Kaliyan;Mathiyazhagan Kaliyan;Devika Kannan;A.N. Haq

  • An ISM approach for the barrier analysis in implementing green supply chain management

    K. Mathiyazhagan;Kannan Govindan;Kannan Govindan;A. NoorulHaq;Yong Geng

  • An integrated framework for sustainable supplier selection and evaluation in supply chains

    Sunil Luthra;Kannan Govindan;Devika Kannan;Sachin Kumar Mangla

  • A hybrid approach using ISM and fuzzy TOPSIS for the selection of reverse logistics provider

    Govindan Kannan;Shaligram Pokharel;P. Sasi Kumar

  • Evolution of sustainability in supply chain management: A literature review

    A. Rajeev;Rupesh K. Pati;Sidhartha S. Padhi;Kannan Govindan

  • Two-echelon multiple-vehicle location-routing problem with time windows for optimization of sustainable supply chain network of perishable food

    K. Govindan;A. Jafarian;R. Khodaverdi;K. Devika

  • ELECTRE: A comprehensive literature review on methodologies and applications

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  • Supply chain network design under uncertainty: A comprehensive review and future research directions

    Kannan Govindan;Mohammad Fattahi;Esmaeil Keyvanshokooh

  • A review of reverse logistics and closed-loop supply chains: a Journal of Cleaner Production focus

    Kannan Govindan;Hamed Soleimani

  • Multi-tier sustainable global supplier selection using a fuzzy AHP-VIKOR based approach

    Anjali Awasthi;Kannan Govindan;Stefan Gold

  • VIKOR Technique: A Systematic Review of the State of the Art Literature on Methodologies and Applications

    Abbas Mardani;Edmundas Kazimieras Zavadskas;Kannan Govindan;Aslan Amat Senin

  • The mediating effect of green innovation on the relationship between green supply chain management and environmental performance

    Noor Aslinda Abu Seman;Kannan Govindan;Abbas Mardani;Norhayati Zakuan

  • A fuzzy multi criteria approach for evaluating green supplier's performance in green supply chain with linguistic preferences

    Lixin Shen;Laya Olfat;Kannan Govindan;Roohollah Khodaverdi

  • A decision support system for demand management in healthcare supply chains considering the epidemic outbreaks: A case study of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

    Kannan Govindan;Kannan Govindan;Hassan Mina;Behrouz Alavi

  • Analysis of third party reverse logistics provider using interpretive structural modeling

    Kannan Govindan;Murugesan Palaniappan;Qinghua Zhu;Devika Kannan

  • Environmental management and operational performance in automotive companies in Brazil: The role of human resource management and lean manufacturing

    Charbel José Chiappetta Jabbour;Ana Beatriz Lopes de Sousa Jabbour;Kannan Govindan;Adriano Alves Teixeira

  • Intuitionistic fuzzy based DEMATEL method for developing green practices and performances in a green supply chain

    Kannan Govindan;Roohollah Khodaverdi;Amin Vafadarnikjoo

  • Industry 4.0 based sustainable circular economy approach for smart waste management system to achieve sustainable development goals: A case study of Indonesia

    Yun Arifatul Fatimah;Kannan Govindan;Kannan Govindan;Rochiyati Murniningsih;Agus Setiawan

Frequent Co-Authors

Devika Kannan
Devika Kannan University of Adelaide
Prasant Mohapatra
Prasant Mohapatra University of South Florida
Susana Garrido Azevedo
Susana Garrido Azevedo University of Coimbra
Fernando Ferreira
Fernando Ferreira ISCTE - University Institute of Lisbon
Tsan-Ming Choi
Tsan-Ming Choi University of Liverpool
Ali Diabat
Ali Diabat New York University Abu Dhabi
Joseph Sarkis
Joseph Sarkis Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Sunil Luthra
Sunil Luthra All India Council for Technical Education

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