Dr Vahid Mirzabeiki

Lecturer B (Assistant Professor) in Operations Management

BSc, MSc, Tekn.Lic., PhD, MCMI, SFHEA

+44 (0)1483 686332

v.mirzabeiki@surrey.ac.uk

13 MS 02

Academic and research departments

Department of Business Transformation.

About

Biography

Dr. Vahid Mirzabeiki is a Lecturer B (Assistant Professor) in Operations Management at the Department of Business Transformation of Surrey Business School.

Prior to joining Surrey, for five years (2013-2018) he held the positions of Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer in Supply Chain Management at Cranfiled University School of Management, and for more than two years (2018-2020) he worked as a Senior Lecturer in Operations Management and the Director of Executive MBA Apprenticeship programme at Coventry University Business School. Vahid conducted his doctoral studies at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden. He has received his Post Graduate Certificate (PGCert) in Academic Practice from Cranfield University. Vahid is a Senior Fellow of Higher Education Academy (SFHEA) and a Member of Chartered Management Institute (MCMI).

Through several research and consulting projects, he has worked with and has studied leading organisations in Sweden and the UK, including DHL, Volvo, Nestlé, Pladis, GS1, and Swedish Transport Administration.

Besides research, authorship, consultancy and company advising, he has more than fourteen years of experience in advanced teaching and module and programme leadership. Vahid has been invited by leading universities as a guest speaker. Vahid has had supervision roles at Trinity College Dublin and he is External Examiner at Middlesex University Business School. Vahid is leading the MSc module Supply Chain Management and Logistics.

My qualifications

2013

PhD in Supply Chain Management

Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

2017

PGCert in Academic Practice

Cranfield University, UK

2010

Tekn.Lic. (Licentiate) in Supply Chain Management

Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

2008

MSc in Supply Chain Management

Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

Affiliations and memberships

SFHEA

Senior Fellow of Higher Education Academy

MCMI

Member of Chartered Management Institute

Research

Research interests

Vahid’s researches are published in the International Journal of Operations and Production Management, International Journal of Production Research, International Journal of Production Economics, Journal of Business Research, International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management, The International Journal of Logistics Management, British Food Journal, Operations Management Research, Management Research Review, International Journal of Logistics Systems and Management, and other scientific and industrial outlets. He has written several book chapters, industrial journal articles, white papers and published teaching cases. He reviews papers for a number of leading journals of management and business fields. Vahid is a member of the Editorial Review Board of the International Journal of Operations and Production Management.

He has organised and chaired workshops and sessions at several international conferences including EurOMA and POMS annual meetings. Vahid has won the Surrey Business School Mid-Career Researcher of the Year Award 2021/22.

His main themes of research include:

Digitalisation of supply chains
Omnichannel integration, through data management
Collaboration-led sustainability in supply chains
Co-opetition in supply chains

Vahid is currently leading the project 'Adopting the Internet-of-Things in Omni-Channel: The Role of Inter-Organisational Collaboration', funded by University of Surrey (started in 2021).

He has been a project lead and a co-investigator on a number of research and consulting projects funded by major industrial clients. A few of his previous projects include:

'Co-opetition in UK Logistics Industry' (2016-2017), funded by Cranfield University School of Management (project lead).
'GS1 Standards for Managing the Cost to Serve in Apparel Supply Chains' (2016), funded by GS1 UK (project lead).
‘Project Step Change in Agri-Food Logistics Ecosystems (SCALE) (2013-2015), funded by Interreg NWE, EU, in collaboration with DHL Supply Chain (Vahid worked as a full-time Senior Research Fellow at Cranfield University for two years on this project).
‘Intelligent Industrial Goods and ERP Systems’ (2008-2010), funded by Swedish Transport Administration (Vahid's PhD studies were mainly funded through this project).
‘Intelligent Excavation’ (2017-2018), funded by Highways England (co-investigator).

Teaching

Supply Chain Management and Logistics (MANM250) (module leader)
Supply Chain Management (MAN3101)
Executive Convenience Leadership Programme
Operations Management (MAN1059)

Publications

Saghiri, Soroosh, Mirzabeiki, Vahid (2021) “Buyer-led environmental supplier development: can suppliers really help it?”, International Journal of Production Economics (ABS 3*), Vol. 233, p.107969.

Mirzabeiki, Vahid, Saghiri, Soroosh (2020) "From ambition to action: How to achieve integration in omni-channel?", Journal of Business Research (ABS 3*), Vol. 110, pp. 1-11

Mirzabeiki, Vahid; Humphries, Andrew, Wilding, Richard (2017) “Co-opetition in UK Logistics Industry”, Logistics and Transport Focus (CILT’s magazine), April.

Mirzabeiki, Vahid, Roso, Violeta, Sjöholm, Per (2016) “Collaborative tracking and tracing applied on dry ports”, International Journal of Logistics Systems and Management (ABS 1*), Vol. 25, No. 3, 425-440.

Danloup, Nicolas, Mirzabeiki, Vahid, Allaoui, Hamid, Goncalves, Gilles, Julien, Denyse Mena, Carlos (2015) “Reducing transportation greenhouse gas emissions with collaborative distribution: A case study”, Management Research Review (ABS 1*), Vol. 38 No. 10, pp.1049 - 1067.

Mirzabeiki, Vahid (2014) “Last mile: Benefits on board”, Automotive Logistics, Vol. January-March 2014, p. 70.

Mirzabeiki, Vahid, Holmström, Jan, Främling, Kary (2014) “Collaborative Tracking and Tracing: The Value of a Composite Design”, International Journal of Logistics Management (ABS 1*), Vol.25 No.3, pp. 522 - 536.

Mirzabeiki, Vahid and Ringsberg, Henrik (2014) “Effects on logistic operations from RFID- and EPCIS-enabled traceability”, British Food Journal (ABS 1*), Vol. 116, No. 1, pp. 104-124.

Mirzabeiki, Vahid (2013) “An Overview of the Freight Intelligent Transportation Systems”, International Journal of Logistics Systems and Management (ABS 1*), Vol. 14, No. 4, pp.473-489.

Mirzabeiki, Vahid, Holmström, Jan, Sjöholm, Per (2012) “Aligning Organizational Interests in Rail Wagon Tracking”, Operations Management Research (ABS 1*), Vol. 5, No. 3-4, pp. 101-115.

Mirzabeiki, Vahid and Sjöholm, Per (2012) “Sharing, tracking and tracing data to improve operations of Supply Chain actors”, International Journal of Logistics Systems and Management (ABS 1*), Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 81-95.

Lumsden, Kenth and Mirzabeiki, Vahid (2008) "Determining the value of information for different partners in the supply chain", International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management (ABS 2*), Vol. 38 No.9, pp. 659-673.

Mena, Carlos, Julien Denyse, Mirzabeiki, Vahid (2016) ‘Chapter 15: Collaboration for sustainability in food supply chains’, in ‘A Stakeholder Approach to Managing Food’ by Lindgreen, A., Hingley, M. K., Angell, R. J., & Memery, J. (Eds.), Routledge.

Mirzabeiki, Vahid (2016) ‘Data Sharing Between Supply Chain Actors’, in ‘Logistics, Supply Chain and Operations Management Case Study Collection’ by David Grant, Kogan Page Publishing, UK.

Mirzabeiki, Vahid (2016) ‘Collaborative Distribution Considering Economic and Environmental Performance’, in ‘Logistics, Supply Chain and Operations Management Case Study Collection’ by David Grant, Kogan Page Publishing, UK.