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D-Index
50
Citations
25814
World Ranking
958
National Ranking
48

Overview

Robert D. Klassen is affiliated with the University of Western Ontario in Canada. Their research primarily falls within the field of Business, Management and Accounting, with a focus on multiple subfields including Strategy and Management, Management Information Systems, Marketing, Surgery, and Mechanics of Materials.

Their work covers a range of topics, notably Supply Chain Resilience and Risk Management, Quality and Supply Management, Sustainable Supply Chain Management, Environmental Sustainability in Business, Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting, Metal and Thin Film Mechanics, and Microstructure and Mechanical Properties.

Frequent publication venues for Robert D. Klassen include:

  • Production and Operations Management
  • Academy of Management Proceedings
  • International Journal of Operations & Production Management
  • Journal of Operations Management
  • Supply Chain Management An International Journal

Their recent papers demonstrate engagement with issues in sustainability, operations management, and material science. Selected papers are:

  • From Sustainable Global Value Chains to Circular Economy-Different Silos, Different Perspectives, but Many Opportunities to Build Bridges, 2021, Circular Economy and Sustainability
  • The effect of crystal anisotropy and pre-existing defects on the incipient plasticity of FCC single crystals during nanoindentation, 2020, Mechanics of Materials
  • Carbon neutrality: Operations management research opportunities, 2024, Journal of Operations Management
  • How do suppliers respond to institutional complexity? Examining voluntary public environmental disclosure in a global manufacturing supply network, 2024, Journal of Operations Management
  • Building synergies between operations culture, operational routines, and supplier monitoring: implications for buyer performance, 2022, International Journal of Operations & Production Management

Robert D. Klassen often collaborates with a consistent group of co-authors, including:

  • Sajad Fayezi
  • Stefan Gold
  • Amy Benstead
  • Luk N. Van Wassenhove
  • William Diebel

Best Publications

  • The impact of environmental management on firm performance

    Robert D. Klassen;Curtis P. McLaughlin

  • Sustainable supply chains: An introduction

    Jonathan D. Linton;Robert Klassen;Vaidyanathan Jayaraman

  • Environmental management and manufacturing performance: The role of collaboration in the supply chain

    Stephan Vachon;Robert D. Klassen

  • EXTENDING GREEN PRACTICES ACROSS THE SUPPLY CHAIN: THE IMPACT OF UPSTREAM AND DOWNSTREAM INTEGRATION

    Stephan Vachon;Robert D. Klassen

  • The Impact of Environmental Technologies on Manufacturing Performance

    Robert D. Klassen;D. Clay Whybark

  • Drivers and Enablers That Foster Environmental Management Capabilities in Small‐ and Medium‐Sized Suppliers in Supply Chains

    Su-Yol Lee;Robert D. Klassen

  • Extending the Horizons: Environmental Excellence as Key to Improving Operations

    Charles J. Corbett;Robert D. Klassen

  • COLLABORATION AND EVALUATION IN THE SUPPLY CHAIN: THE IMPACT ON PLANT‐LEVEL ENVIRONMENTAL INVESTMENT

    Robert D. Klassen;Stephan Vachon

  • Social issues in supply chains: Capabilities link responsibility, risk (opportunity), and performance

    Robert D. Klassen;Ann Vereecke

  • Integrating environmental issues into the mainstream: an agenda for research in operations management

    Linda C Angell;Robert D Klassen

  • The impact of supply chain structure on the use of supplier socially responsible practices

    Amrou Awaysheh;Robert D. Klassen

  • SPECIAL TOPIC FORUM ON SUSTAINABLE SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT: INTRODUCTION AND REFLECTIONS ON THE ROLE OF PURCHASING MANAGEMENT*

    Daniel R. Krause;Stephan Vachon;Robert D. Klassen

  • GREEN PROJECT PARTNERSHIP IN THE SUPPLY CHAIN: THE CASE OF THE PACKAGE PRINTING INDUSTRY

    Stephan Vachon;Robert D. Klassen

  • Environmental Management in Operations: The Selection of Environmental Technologies*

    Robert D. Klassen;D. Clay Whybark

  • Reprint of Lean management and supply management: their role in green practices and performance

    Sara Hajmohammad;Stephan Vachon;Robert D. Klassen;Iuri Gavronski

  • Efficiency meets accountability: Performance implications of supply chain configuration, control, and capabilities

    Anne Parmigiani;Robert D. Klassen;Michael V. Russo

  • Experimental comparison of Web, electronic and mail survey technologies in operations management

    Robert D. Klassen;Jennifer Jacobs

  • An exploratory investigation of the effects of supply chain complexity on delivery performance

    S. Vachon;R.D. Klassen

  • Linking forward and reverse supply chain investments: The role of business uncertainty

    Canan Kocabasoglu;Carol Prahinski;Robert D. Klassen

  • A resource-based view of green supply management

    Iuri Gavronski;Robert D. Klassen;Stephan Vachon;Luis Felipe Machado do Nascimento

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark Pagell
Mark Pagell University College Dublin
Damien Power
Damien Power University of Melbourne
Daniel R. Krause
Daniel R. Krause Colorado State University
Joseph Sarkis
Joseph Sarkis Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Davide Luzzini
Davide Luzzini EADA Business School
Sanjay Sharma
Sanjay Sharma St George's, University of London
Kannan Govindan
Kannan Govindan University of Adelaide
Stefan Seuring
Stefan Seuring University of Kassel
Vaidyanathan Jayaraman
Vaidyanathan Jayaraman S P Jain School of Global Management

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