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Distinguished Lecture Series with Veronica Villena
June 16, 2022 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
The Center for Applied Research and Innovation in Supply Chain – Africa hosts Distinguished Lecture Series and invite scholars and supply chain practitioners to deliver in-depth presentations to faculty and students of KNUST and other stakeholders. The series aims at providing attendees with the opportunity to learn about best practices, new techniques and ideas, and from exemplary research activities and case studies.
Join Us for CARISCA’s Distinguished Lecture Series.
The topic for this Lecture “Do Sustainability and Resilience Go Hand in Hand? The Case of Pennsylvania Dairy Farmers” will be delivered by Veronica Villena, Associate Professor, W.P Carey School of Business – Arizona State University.
Meet the Speaker
Veronica Villena is an associate professor of supply chain management at the W.P Carey School of Business, Arizona State University.
Her research focuses on how companies engage their global supplier network to achieve economic, environmental and social outcomes. She has worked with leading sustainability companies in the automotive, electronics, consumer product, pharmaceutical, fashion and food sectors on how they can diffuse their environmental and labor practices to their first-, second-and third-tier suppliers. Her research explores the challenges companies face in cascading their environmental and labor requirements to these upstream suppliers while informing the reasons why suppliers do not fulfill such requirements. She has done extensive grounded research in several emerging/developing countries and worked with industry organizations and NGOs to better understand the environmental and labor conditions in supplier factories.
She won the 2019 Jack Meredith Best Paper award at the Journal of Operations Management and the Chan Hahn Best Paper Award of the Academy of Management (OSCM division) in 2016 and 2020. Her work has been published in a variety of prestigious journals, including Journal of Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, Journal of Management, Journal of Supply Chain Management, and Decision Sciences. She also publishes in managerial outlets such as Harvard Business Review and Supply Chain Management Review. She currently serves as an associate editor for the Journal of Operations Management and a senior editor for Production and Operations Management. Villena’s research papers can be accessed at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Veronica_Villena.