Dr Ozlem Bak
Senior Lecturer in Operations Management
Eastern Gateway 202o
- Email: ozlem.bak@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 265689
- Innovation and Sustainability
- Brunel Business School
- College of Business, Arts and Social Sciences
Summary
Dr Ozlem Bak is a Senior Lecturer in Operations Management at Brunel Business School, UK. She lectures on operations management, research methods and supply chain management at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. She has received her PhD from the University of East Anglia supported by a full scholarship from the University of East Anglia, Management School in the UK. Her PhD received Emerald Highly Commended Award in the field of Operations Management.
Her current research interest and experience lies in supply chain management particularly organisational transformation, e-business implementation in supply chain; supply chain skills; supply chain risk and resilience; organisational transformation and Industry- Higher Education collaboration.
Ozlem is the editor of three books and her research has been widely published in national and international journals such as Supply Chain Management an International Journal (SCMIJ), Production Planning and Control(PPC),Information Technology & People (ITP); Strategic Change; Benchmarking: an International Journal (BIJ); Journal of Qualitative Research. She has also edited three books on e-Business and Supply Chain Integration in public and private organisations and Green and Sustainable Supply Chains.
Ozlems' academic activities are underpinned by industrial and commercial background including experience in the automotive industry for companies such as Daimler Chrysler and Hyundai and distributors in the UK, Germany and Turkey as well as Consultancy. Ozlem is also currently helping companies with their executive development programms.
Qualifications
- PhD University of East Anglia
- MBA European Management (Double Degree Berlin School of Economics and Law)
- PgDip in Higher Education
Responsibility
BSc Business and Management Programme Leader
Newest selected publications
Bak, O., Braganza, A. and Chen, W. (2023) 'Exploring Blockchain implementation challenges in the context of healthcare supply chain (HCSC)'. International Journal of Production Research, 0 (ahead of print). pp. 1 - 16. ISSN: 0020-7543 Open Access Link
Bak, O. (2021) 'Sustainable and Green Supply Chains and Logistics Case Study Collection'. London: Kogan Page. ISSN 10: 1-78966-822-0 ISSN 13: 978-1-78966-821-6
Bak, O., Shaw, S., Collichia, C. and Kumar, V. (2020) 'A Systematic Literature Review of Supply Chain Resilience in Small–Medium Enterprises (SMEs): A Call for Further Research'. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 70 (1). pp. 328 - 341. ISSN: 0018-9391 Open Access Link
Bak, O., Jordan, C. and Midgley, J. (2019) 'The adoption of soft skills in supply chain and understanding its current role in supply chain management skills agenda: A UK perspective'. Benchmarking: An International Journal, 26 (3). pp. 1063 - 1079. ISSN: 1463-5771 Open Access Link
Kumar, V., Bak, O., RUIZHI, G., Shaw, SL., Colicchia, C., Garza-Reyes, JA. and et al. (2018) 'An empirical analysis of supply and manufacturing risk and business performance: A Chinese manufacturing supply chain perspective'. SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL, 23 (6). pp. 471 - 479. ISSN: 1359-8546 Open Access Link