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Luk N. Van Wassenhove

Luk N. Van Wassenhove

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Business and Management
France
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Business and Management

D-Index
108
Citations
57426
World Ranking
28
National Ranking
1

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Business and Management in France Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Business and Management in France Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Business and Management in France Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Business and Management in France Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Business and Management in France Leader Award
  • 2018 - Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
  • 2006 - EURO Gold Medal

Overview

Luk N. Van Wassenhove is affiliated with INSEAD in France and has contributed extensively to research in the field of business, management, and accounting. Their work spans a wide range of subfields including strategy and management, management information systems, organizational behavior and human resource management, sociology and political science, and economics and econometrics.

The scientist's research addresses multiple key topics, notably:

  • Supply Chain Resilience and Risk Management
  • Facility Location and Emergency Management
  • Quality and Supply Management
  • Disaster Management and Resilience
  • Sustainable Supply Chain Management
  • Disaster Response and Management
  • Supply Chain and Inventory Management

Van Wassenhove has published frequently in various academic venues. Their most common publication outlets include:

  • Production and Operations Management
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management
  • Journal of Industrial Ecology
  • Manufacturing & Service Operations Management

Some of their recent papers are as follows:

  • Fast Fashion, Charities, and the Circular Economy: Challenges for Operations Management, 2021, Production and Operations Management
  • The Coordination-Information Bubble in Humanitarian Response: Theoretical Foundations and Empirical Investigations, 2020, Production and Operations Management
  • Humanitarian Operations and the UN Sustainable Development Goals, 2021, Production and Operations Management
  • Sustainable humanitarian operations: An integrated perspective, 2022, Production and Operations Management
  • Fleet Coordination in Decentralized Humanitarian Operations Funded by Earmarked Donations, 2020, Operations Research

The scientist collaborates regularly with several co-authors who have contributed to multiple publications alongside them. Frequent collaborators include:

  • Sajad Fayezi
  • Robert D. Klassen
  • Stefan Gold
  • Amy Benstead
  • Atalay Atasu

Van Wassenhove has received recognition in their field, including the EURO Gold Medal awarded in 2006 and was named a Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) in 2018.

Best Publications

  • Quantitative models for reverse logistics: A review

    Moritz Fleischmann;Jacqueline M. Bloemhof-Ruwaard;Rommert Dekker;Erwin van der Laan

  • Closed-Loop Supply Chain Models with Product Remanufacturing

    R. Canan Savaskan;Shantanu Bhattacharya;Luk N. Van Wassenhove

  • Sustainable Operations Management

    Paul R. Kleindorfer;Kalyan Singhal;Luk N. Van Wassenhove

  • Strategic Issues in Product Recovery Management

    Martijn Thierry;Marc Salomon;Jo Van Nunen;Luk Van Wassenhove

  • Humanitarian aid logistics: supply chain management in high gear

    L N Van Wassenhove

  • OR FORUM---The Evolution of Closed-Loop Supply Chain Research

    V. Daniel R. Guide;Luk N. Van Wassenhove

  • Reverse Channel Design: The Case of Competing Retailers

    R. Canan Savaskan;Luk N. Van Wassenhove

  • The impact of ERP on supply chain management: Exploratory findings from a European Delphi study

    Henk A Akkermans;Paul Bogerd;Enver Yücesan;Luk N van Wassenhove

  • The Impact of Product Recovery on Logistics Network Design

    Moritz Fleischmann;Moritz Fleischmann;Patrick Beullens;Patrick Beullens;Jacqueline M. Bloemhof-Ruwaard;Jacqueline M. Bloemhof-Ruwaard;Luk N. Van Wassenhove;Luk N. Van Wassenhove

  • Remanufacturing as a Marketing Strategy

    Atalay Atasu;Miklos Sarvary;Luk N. Van Wassenhove

  • MANAGING PRODUCT RETURNS FOR REMANUFACTURING

    V. Daniel R. Guide;Luk N. Van Wassenhove

  • Market Segmentation and Product Technology Selection for Remanufacturable Products

    Laurens G. Debo;L. Beril Toktay;Luk N. Van Wassenhove

  • Reverse logistics : quantitative models for closed-loop supply chains

    Rommert Dekker;Moritz Fleischmann;Karl Inderfurth;Luk N. Van Wassenhove

  • Reverse Supply Chains for Commercial Returns

    Joseph D. Blackburn;V. Daniel R. Guide;Gilvan C. Souza;Luk N. Van Wassenhove

  • Matching Demand and Supply to Maximize Profits from Remanufacturing

    V. Daniel R. Guide;Ruud H. Teunter;Luk N. Van Wassenhove

  • The Challenge of Closed-Loop Supply Chains

    V. Daniel R. Guide;Terry P. Harrison;Luk N. Van Wassenhove

  • On the unique features of post‐disaster humanitarian logistics

    José Holguín-Veras;Miguel Jaller;Luk N. Van Wassenhove;Noel Pérez

  • Trade-offs? What Trade-offs? Competence and Competitiveness in Manufacturing Strategy:

    Charles Corbett;Luk Van Wassenhove

  • A multiplier adjustment method for the generalized assignment problem

    M L Fisher;R Jaikumar;L N Van Wassenhove

  • On the appropriate objective function for post-disaster humanitarian logistics models

    José Holguín-Veras;Noel Pérez;Miguel Jaller;Luk N. Van Wassenhove

  • Integrating Scheduling with Batching and Lot-Sizing: A Review of Algorithms and Complexity

    C. N. Potts;L. N. Van Wassenhove

  • Concurrent product and closed-loop supply chain design with an application to refrigerators

    H.R. Krikke;J. Bloemhof-Ruwaard;L.N. van Wassenhove

Frequent Co-Authors

V. Daniel R. Guide
V. Daniel R. Guide Pennsylvania State University
Jacqueline M. Bloemhof-Ruwaard
Jacqueline M. Bloemhof-Ruwaard Wageningen University & Research
Christoph H. Loch
Christoph H. Loch University of Navarra
Charles J. Corbett
Charles J. Corbett University of California, Los Angeles
L. Beril Toktay
L. Beril Toktay Georgia Institute of Technology
Rommert Dekker
Rommert Dekker Erasmus University Rotterdam
Leo Kroon
Leo Kroon Erasmus University Rotterdam
José Holguín-Veras
José Holguín-Veras Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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