Profiles
Dr Huilan Chen
Lecturer in Business Strategy and Operations
Plymouth Business School (Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business)
Biography
Biography
Office: CKY 308 Lecturer in Business Strategy and Operations
Qualifications
PhD in Management from University of Plymouth, project title: A Knowledge Mobilisation Framework for Lean Supply Chains in Agri-food Industry
Professional membership
Associate Fellow in Advanced Higher Education (AFHEA) Euro Working Group on Decision Support Systems (EWG-DSS)
Teaching
Teaching
Teaching interests
Undergraduate level:
- MAR6010 Supply Chain Resilience and Risk Management
- MAR6011 Supply Chain Risk and Maritime Security
- MAR5003/6003 International Logistics Management
- STO6008 Researching for Business
- HRL5008 Challenge Module
- STO4001 Business and Management External Environment
- PBS6000 Honours Project (Dissertation supervision)
Postgraduate level:
- MAR7003 Sustainable Supply Chain Management
- PBS7000 Capstone Project (Dissertation supervision)
Research
Research
Research interests
Knowledge-based techniques in business and management, particularly:
- Knowledge management (knowledge mobilisation and networking; lean KM)
- Lean and green operations management
- Sustainable and global supply chain management
- Supply chain resilience and risk management
PhD Supervision:
- Adoption of blockchain technology for sustainable food security: drivers, barriers and potential solutions for agri-food supply chain in Nigeria. Ruth Goma
- Peer learning to support the creation of closed-loop social value networks in food sharing communities. Xinyi Li
Other research
Research impact and external engagement:
- Regional farm businesses talking about the research impact of work from the research team: https://vimeo.com/mavenvisuals/review/901100568/4d5bc38b94
- “Enhancing agri-food value chain collaboration and resilience: accelerating boundary-spanning knowledge sharing and technology transfer services (FoodAcT)”, project value is £5580 for the period 1st April to 31st July 2023.
Grants & contracts
- 2022-2026, UKRI project " Nurturing future Black, Asian and minority ethnic female professors (Generation Delta)", funded by Research England and Office of Students, £797,264, coordinated by University of Leeds, partners including Plymouth, Goldsmiths, Reading, Sheffield and Sunderland Universities. Project website: generationdelta.leeds.ac.uk
- 2022-2024, UK Royal Society funded project “Water for sustainability: from precision measurement of soil water content to data-driven decision support”. Funded under International Exchanges 2021 Cost Share (NSFC) scheme.
- 2021-2022, UK government funded project “Devon Agri-Tech Alliance (DATA)”, under Community Renewal Fund, project value, £503,318, coordinated by Devon County Council, partners including Plymouth University, Duchy College and West Devon Business Information Point.
- 2016-2022, Horizon 2020 project "Enhancing and implementing knowledge based ICT solutions within high risk and uncertain conditions for agriculture production systems (RUC-APS)", funded by European Commission under Marie Curie RISE scheme, €1.3M.
- 2014-2016, EU Erasmus Plus KA2 project Developing online tools to foster entrepreneurship in retail sector for young people (LET IT BE PROJECT)", funded by European Commission, €120,832. Full details on the project website
Publications
Publications
Key publications
Key publications are highlighted
Journals
Articles
(2024) 'An Investigation of the Critical Factors That Influence Knowledge Mobilization Success in Agri-Food Supply Chains' CONTEMPORARY ECONOMICS 18, (1) 118-137 , DOI
(2023) 'Analysis of factors affecting cross-boundary knowledge mobilization in agri-food supply chains: An integrated approach' Journal of Business Research 164, , DOI Open access
(2022) 'Knowledge Mobilization for Agri-Food Supply Chain Decisions' International Journal of Decision Support System Technology 15, (2) 1-25 , DOI Open access
(2020) 'The impact of knowledge governance mechanisms on supply chain performance: Empirical evidence from the agri-food industry' Production Planning and Control , DOI Open access
(2020) 'Risk analysis of the agri-food supply chain: A multi-method approach' International Journal of Production Research , DOI Open access
(2019) 'A Decision support system for evaluation of the knowledge sharing crossing boundaries in agri-food value chains' Computers in Industry 110, 64-80 , DOI Open access
(2019) 'Blockchain technology in agri-food value chain management: A synthesis of applications, challenges and future research directions' Computers in Industry 109, 83-99 , DOI Open access
(2019) 'Identifying knowledge brokers, artefacts and channels for waste reduction in agri-food supply chains' International Journal of Sustainable Agriculture Management and Informatics , DOI Open access
(2018) 'Towards a knowledge management framework for crossing knowledge boundaries in agricultural value chain' Journal of Decision Systems 27, , DOI Open access
(2018) 'How cultural impact on knowledge sharing contributes to organizational performance: Using the fsQCA approach' Journal of Business Research , DOI Open access
(2017) 'A Knowledge Network and Mobilisation Framework for Lean Supply Chain Decisions in Agri-Food Industry' International Journal of Decision Support System Technology 9, (4) 37-48 , DOI Open access
(2015) 'Cloud Enabled Big Data Business Platform for Logistics Services: A Research and Development Agenda' 22-33 Publisher Site , DOI
Conference Papers
(2023) 'Towards an Integrative Assessment Model for Port Sustainability Decisions: A Systematic Review' Springer Nature Switzerland 216-231 Publisher Site , DOI
(2021) 'Knowledge mobilisation crossing boundaries: a multi-perspective framework for agri-food value chains' International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS) 185-200 Publisher Site , DOI Open access
(2019) 'Value-Chain Wide Food Waste Management: A Systematic Literature Review' Springer International Publishing 41-54 Publisher Site , DOI
(2017) 'Exploring the relationship between knowledge network/ mobilisation and lean performance in agri-food chain context: A fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis' 2017 International Conference of Global Innovation and Knowledge Academy (GIKA) Lisbon, Portugal 6-/-0/20176-/-0/2017Open access
(2016) 'A conceptual framework of knowledge networking and mobilization for lean supply chain decisions' 2016 International Conference on Decision Support System Technology (ICDSST 2016) Plymouth, UK 5-/-0/20165-/-0/2016