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Stephen Michael Disney

Stephen Michael Disney

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Business and Management
UK
2024

D-Index & Metrics

Business and Management

D-Index
55
Citations
13507
World Ranking
736
National Ranking
108

Engineering and Technology

D-Index
55
Citations
13408
World Ranking
2954
National Ranking
188

Stephen Michael Disney publication distribution in Business and Management in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Business and Management in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Stephen Michael Disney sits on this spectrum.

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35 publications 436+

This scientist: 281 publications — 90th percentile

90% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 436 publications or more.

Stephen Michael Disney D-index placement in Business and Management in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Business and Management scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Stephen Michael Disney sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 156 scientists 31 D-Index: 159 scientists 32 D-Index: 171 scientists 33 D-Index: 161 scientists 34 D-Index: 135 scientists 35 D-Index: 124 scientists 36 D-Index: 114 scientists 37 D-Index: 111 scientists 38 D-Index: 103 scientists 39 D-Index: 89 scientists 40 D-Index: 81 scientists 41 D-Index: 97 scientists 42 D-Index: 80 scientists 43 D-Index: 69 scientists 44 D-Index: 68 scientists 45 D-Index: 63 scientists 46 D-Index: 54 scientists 47 D-Index: 69 scientists 48 D-Index: 50 scientists 49 D-Index: 58 scientists 50 D-Index: 54 scientists 51 D-Index: 62 scientists 52 D-Index: 54 scientists 53 D-Index: 43 scientists 54 D-Index: 49 scientists 55 D-Index: 35 scientists 56 D-Index: 40 scientists 57 D-Index: 44 scientists 58 D-Index: 34 scientists 59 D-Index: 29 scientists 60 D-Index: 48 scientists 61 D-Index: 32 scientists 62 D-Index: 30 scientists 63 D-Index: 22 scientists 64 D-Index: 22 scientists 65 D-Index: 19 scientists 66 D-Index: 20 scientists 67 D-Index: 18 scientists 68 D-Index: 17 scientists 69 D-Index: 21 scientists 70 D-Index: 20 scientists 71 D-Index: 19 scientists 72 D-Index: 14 scientists 73 D-Index: 10 scientists 74 D-Index: 16 scientists 75 D-Index: 24 scientists 76 D-Index: 13 scientists 77 D-Index: 19 scientists 78 D-Index: 8 scientists 79 D-Index: 6 scientists 80 D-Index: 4 scientists 81 D-Index: 12 scientists 82 D-Index: 7 scientists 83 D-Index: 7 scientists 84 D-Index: 6 scientists 85 D-Index: 10 scientists 86 D-Index: 4 scientists 87 D-Index: 11 scientists 88 D-Index: 6 scientists 89+ D-Index: 96 scientists
30 D-Index 89+

This scientist: 55 D-Index — 77th percentile

77% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 89 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Business and Management in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Business and Management in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Stephen Michael Disney is affiliated with the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Business, Management and Accounting, with a significant focus on Decision Sciences. Within these domains, their work frequently touches on subfields such as Management Information Systems, Management Science and Operations Research, Strategy and Management, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, and Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management.

The areas of study that dominate their research include Supply Chain and Inventory Management, Forecasting Techniques and Applications, Sustainable Supply Chain Management, Facility Location and Emergency Management, Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics Optimization, Outsourcing and Supply Chain Management, and Quality and Supply Management.

Their recent publications include:

  • "Operational Research: methods and applications" (2023), Journal of the Operational Research Society
  • "Dual Sourcing and Smoothing Under Nonstationary Demand Time Series: Reshoring with SpeedFactories" (2021), Management Science
  • "Exploring the nonlinear dynamics of the lost-sales order-up-to policy" (2020), International Journal of Production Research
  • "When bullwhip increases in the lead time: An eigenvalue analysis of ARMA demand" (2022), International Journal of Production Economics
  • "Volume Flexibility at Responsive Suppliers in Reshoring Decisions: Analysis of a Dual Sourcing Inventory Model" (2022), Production and Operations Management

Stephen Michael Disney frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • International Journal of Production Economics
  • International Journal of Production Research
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of the Operational Research Society
  • Management Science

Their collaborative work includes frequent partnerships with the following co-authors:

  • Gerard Gaalman
  • Fotios Petropoulos
  • Jan Holmström
  • Xun Wang
  • Robert Boute

Best Publications

  • Supply chain collaboration: making sense of the strategy continuum

    Matthias Holweg;Stephen Michael Disney;Jan Holmström;Johanna Småros

  • Measuring and avoiding the bullwhip effect: A control theoretic approach

    J. Dejonckheere;Stephen Michael Disney;M. R. Lambrecht;Denis Royston Towill

  • The effect of vendor managed inventory (VMI) dynamics on the Bullwhip Effect in supply chains

    Stephen Michael Disney;Denis Royston Towill

  • The impact of information enrichment on the Bullwhip effect in supply chains: A control engineering perspective

    J. Dejonckheere;Stephen Michael Disney;M. R. Lambrecht;Denis Royston Towill

  • On the bullwhip and inventory variance produced by an ordering policy

    Stephen Michael Disney;Denis Royston Towill

  • Vendor-managed inventory and bullwhip reduction in a two-level supply chain

    Stephen Michael Disney;Denis Royston Towill

  • The bullwhip effect: Progress, trends and directions

    Xun Wang;Stephen Michael Disney

  • On bullwhip in supply chains - historical review, present practice and expected future impact

    S. Geary;Stephen Michael Disney;Denis Royston Towill

  • A discrete transfer function model to determine the dynamic stability of a vendor managed inventory supply chain

    Stephen Michael Disney;Denis Royston Towill

  • Assessing the impact of e-business on supply chain dynamics

    Stephen Michael Disney;Mohamed Mohamed Naim;Andrew Thomas Potter

  • Supply chain dynamics

    Mohamed Mohamed Naim;Stephen Michael Disney;Denis Royston Towill

  • THE IMPACT OF VENDOR MANAGED INVENTORY ON TRANSPORT OPERATIONS

    Stephen Michael Disney;Andrew Thomas Potter;Bernard Maples Gardner

  • A procedure for the optimization of the dynamic response of a Vendor managed inventory system

    S. M. Disney;D. R. Towill

  • Transfer function analysis of forecasting induced bullwhip in supply chains

    J. Dejonckheere;Stephen Michael Disney;M. R. Lambrecht;Denis Royston Towill

  • Taming the bullwhip effect whilst watching customer service in a single supply chain echelon

    Stephen Michael Disney;I Farasyn;M. Lambrecht;Denis Royston Towill

  • On Replenishment Rules, Forecasting and the Bullwhip Effect in Supply Chains

    Stephen M. Disney;Marc R. Lambrecht

  • On variance amplification in a three-echelon supply chain with minimum mean square error forecasting

    Takamichi Hosoda;Stephen Michael Disney

  • Forecasting for inventory planning: a 50-year review

    Argyrios Syntetos;J. E. Boylan;Stephen Michael Disney

  • A supply chain diagnostic methodology: determining the vector of change

    M. M. Naim;P. Childerhouse;S. M. Disney;D. R. Towill

  • Variance amplification and the golden ratio in production and inventory control

    Stephen Michael Disney;Denis Royston Towill;W. van de Velde

  • Dynamic simulation modelling for lean logistics

    Stephen Michael Disney;Mohamed Mohamed Naim;Denis Royston Towill

Frequent Co-Authors

Denis Royston Towill
Denis Royston Towill Cardiff University
Mohamed Mohamed Naim
Mohamed Mohamed Naim Cardiff University
Andrew Thomas Potter
Andrew Thomas Potter Cardiff University
Jan Holmström
Jan Holmström Aalto University
Matthias Holweg
Matthias Holweg University of Oxford
Robert W. Grubbström
Robert W. Grubbström Linköping University
Ou Tang
Ou Tang Linköping University
Mohammed Quaddus
Mohammed Quaddus Curtin University
Christopher S. Tang
Christopher S. Tang University of California, Los Angeles
Jose M. Framinan
Jose M. Framinan University of Seville

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