Rajesh R
Operations Management & Decision Sciences
Ph.D IIST (ISRO), PDF IIT Madras
+91 431 2505084
rajesh@iimtrichy.ac.in
Rajesh is presently working as an Assistant Professor in the area of Operations Management & Decision Sciences at IIM Tiruchirappalli. Before joining this, he worked as an Assistant Professor at ABV-IIITM Gwalior. He completed a Post-Doctoral Fellowship (PDF) in Operations Management from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-M) and has completed a Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST (ISRO)), Trivandrum. He is presently working in supply chain management, risk management, resilience, sustainability, decision-making, uncertainty modeling, and grey theory. As of now, he has an h-index of 28 (Google Scholar) and over 3800+ citations (Google Scholar).
Accomplishments
- Senior Associate Editor, Marketing Intelligence & Planning, Emerald (ABDC A; Impact Factor 3.6; CiteScore 8.0)
- Proposed the new causal/ influence modelling techniques, the Grey Influence Analysis (GINA) and the Grey Causal Modelling (GCM)
- Recognized as among the top 5 researchers in the world in the area of supply chain resilience (Sources: Web of Science; Scopus)
- Listed consecutively in the world's top 2% of scientists compiled by Stanford-Elsevier (single recent years) in 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024, considering the subject fields; Operations Research and Artificial Intelligence.
- Listed in the world's top 2% of scientists by the Stanford-Elsevier list (career-long achievement) in 2024.
Profiles/ Publications
Journal Publications
1. Rajesh, R. (2024). Grey models for data analysis and decision-making in uncertainty during pandemics. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 113, 104881. (ABDC A)
2. Rajesh, R. (2024). A Grey Combined Prediction Model for Medical Treatment Risk Analysis during Pandemics. Information System Frontiers, DOI: 10.1007/s10796-024-10551-5. (ABDC A)
3. Singh, G., Rajesh, R., Misra, S. C., & Singh, S. (2024). Analyzing the role of digital twins in developing a resilient sustainable manufacturing supply chain: A grey influence analysis (GINA) approach. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 209, 123763. (ABDC A)
4. Rajesh, R. (2024). Managerial risk data analytics applications using grey influence analysis (GINA). Data & Knowledge Engineering, 151, 102312. (ABDC A)
5. Rajesh, R. (2024). Analysing psycho-social conditions of people during the COVID-19 pandemic: A case of Kerala. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 103, 104327. (ABDC A)
6. Rajesh, R. (2024). Modelling the traits of consumer resilience: implications to emerging markets. Marketing Intelligence & Planning, 42(2), 234-261. (ABDC A)
7. Aashi, S., & Rajesh, R. (2023). Integrating social sustainability into supplier evaluation using data envelopment analysis. Annals of Operations Research, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-023-05767-8. (ABDC A)
8. Rajesh, R. (2023). Industry 5.0: analyzing the challenges in implementation using grey influence analysis. Journal of Enterprise Information Management, 36(5), 1349-1371. (ABDC A)
9. Rajesh, R. (2023). Grey Markov models for predicting the social sustainability performances of firms. Social Indicators Research, 168(1), 297-351. (ABDC A)
10. Singh, G., Rajesh, R., Daultani, Y., & Misra, S. C. (2023). Resilience and sustainability enhancements in food supply chains using Digital Twin technology: A grey causal modelling (GCM) approach. Computers & Industrial Engineering, 179, 109172. (ABDC A)
11. Shishodia, A., Sharma, R., Rajesh, R. and Munim, Z.H. (2023), Supply chain resilience: A review, conceptual framework and future research, The International Journal of Logistics Management, 34(4), 879-908. (ABDC A)
12. Rajesh, R. (2021). Optimal trade-offs in decision-making for sustainability and resilience in manufacturing supply chains. Journal of Cleaner Production, 313, 127596. (ABDC A)
13. Rajesh, R., Agariya, A. K., & Rajendran, C. (2021). Predicting resilience in retailing using grey theory and moving probability based Markov models. Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 62, 102599. (ABDC A)
14. Rajesh, R. (2022). Sustainability performance predictions in supply chains: Grey and rough set theoretical approaches. Annals of Operations Research, 310(1), 171-200. (ABDC A)
15. Rajesh, R. (2022). A novel advanced grey incidence analysis for investigating the level of resilience in supply chains. Annals of Operations Research, 308, 441–490. (ABDC A)
16. Rajesh, R. (2020). Exploring the sustainability performances of firms using environmental, social, and governance scores. Journal of Cleaner Production, 247, 119600. (ABDC A)
17. Rajesh, R., & Rajendran, C. (2020). Relating environmental, social, and governance scores and sustainability performances of firms: An empirical analysis. Business Strategy and the Environment, 29(3), 1247-1267. (ABDC A)
18. Rajesh, R. (2019). Social and environmental risk management in resilient supply chains: A periodical study by the Grey-Verhulst model. International Journal of Production Research, 57(11), 3748-3765. (ABDC A)
19. Moktadir, M. A., Ali, S. M., Rajesh, R., & Paul, S. K. (2018). Modeling the interrelationships among barriers to sustainable supply chain management in leather industry. Journal of Cleaner Production, 181, 631-651. (ABDC A)
20. Rajesh, R. (2017). Technological capabilities and supply chain resilience of firms: A relational analysis using Total Interpretive Structural Modeling (TISM). Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 118, 161-169. (ABDC A)
21. Rajesh, R., & Ravi, V. (2015). Modeling enablers of supply chain risk mitigation in electronic supply chains: A Grey–DEMATEL approach. Computers & Industrial Engineering, 87, 126-139. (ABDC A)
22. Rajesh, R., Ravi, V., & Venkata Rao, R. (2015). Selection of risk mitigation strategy in electronic supply chains using grey theory and digraph-matrix approaches. International Journal of Production Research, 53(1), 238-257. (ABDC A)
23. Rajesh, R., & Ravi, V. (2015). Supplier selection in resilient supply chains: a grey relational analysis approach. Journal of Cleaner Production, 86, 343-359. (ABDC A)
24. Aman, M., Rajesh, R., & Vyas, V. (2024). Supply chain disruptions in COVID-19 and market performances of firms: a study in the Indian automobile sector. Measuring Business Excellence, https://doi.org/10.1108/MBE-07-2023-0093. (ABDC B)
25. Yash, D., & Rajesh, R. (2024). Risk analysis of electrical power grids in India using best-worst method and grey causal modelling. Benchmarking: An International Journal, https://doi.org/10.1108/BIJ-03-2023-0149. (ABDC B)
26. Rajesh, R. (2023). Performance predictions for sustainability governance of firms: implications to select Indian firms. Benchmarking: An International Journal, 31(5), 1492-1514. (ABDC B)
27. Jessin, T. A., Rajeev, A., & Rajesh, R. (2023). Supplier selection framework to evade pseudo-resilience and to achieve sustainability in supply chains. International Journal of Emerging Markets, 18(6), 1425-1452. (ABDC B)
28. Singh, G., Daultani, Y., Rajesh, R., & Sahu, R. (2022). Modeling the growth barriers of fresh produce supply chain in the Indian context. Benchmarking: An International Journal, 30(2), 653-677. (ABDC B)
29. Rajesh, R., Rajeev, A., & Rajendran, C. (2022). Corporate social performances of firms in select developed economies: A comparative study. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 81, 101194. (ABS 2)
30. Rajesh, R. (2021). Flexible business strategies to enhance resilience in manufacturing supply chains: An empirical study. Journal of Manufacturing Systems, 60, 903-919. (ABDC B)
31. Rajesh, R. (2018). Pseudo resilient supply chains: concept, traits, and practices. Journal of Risk Research, 21(10), 1264-1286. (ABS 2)
32. Sabu, M., Shaijumon, C. S., & Rajesh, R. (2018). Factors influencing the adoption of ICT tools in Kerala marine fisheries sector: An analytic hierarchy process approach. Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, 30(7), 866-880. (ABDC B)
33. Rajesh, R. (2016). Forecasting supply chain resilience performance using grey prediction. Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, 20, 42-58. (ABS 2)
34. Chouhan, M., Rajesh, R., & Sahu, R. (2025). Resilience enhancers and barriers analysis for Industry 4.0 in supply chains using grey influence analysis (GINA). Journal of Industrial Information Integration, 43, 100735. (SCI, IF: 10.4)
35. Rajesh, R. (2023). Predicting environmental sustainability performances of firms using trigonometric grey prediction model. Environmental Development, 45, 100830. (SCI, IF: 4.7)
36. Rajesh, R. (2023). An introduction to grey causal modelling (GCM): applications to manufacturing, supply chains, resilience, and sustainability. Artificial Intelligence Review, 56(7), 6267-6293. (SCI, IF: 10.7)
37. Jeevaraj, S., Rajesh, R., & Lakshmana Gomathi Nayagam, V. (2023). A complete ranking of trapezoidal-valued intuitionistic fuzzy number: an application in evaluating social sustainability. Neural Computing and Applications, 35(8), 5939-5962. (SCI, IF: 4.5)
38. Rajesh, R., & Aljabhan, B. (2022). A novel grey stratified decision-making (GSDM) model for social sustainability-based supplier selection. IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, 11(1), 531-545. (SCI, IF: 4.6)
39. Chandrakant, R., & Rajesh, R. (2023). Social sustainability, corporate governance, and sustainability performances: an empirical study of the effects. Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, 14(7), 9131-9143. (SCI, IF: 7.1)
40. Rajesh, R. (2023). An introduction to grey influence analysis (GINA): Applications to causal modelling in marketing and supply chain research. Expert Systems with Applications, 212, 118816. (SCI, IF: 7.5)
41. Hemant, J., Rajesh, R., & Daultani, Y. (2022). Causal modelling of the enablers of CPFR for building resilience in manufacturing supply chains. RAIRO-Operations Research, 56(4), 2139-2158. (SCI, IF: 1.8)
42. Sachin, N., & Rajesh, R. (2022). An empirical study of supply chain sustainability with financial performances of Indian firms. Environment, Development and Sustainability, 24(5), 6577-6601. (SCI, IF: 4.7)
43. Rajesh, R. (2020). Sustainable supply chains in the Indian context: An integrative decision-making model. Technology in Society, 61, 101230. (SCI, IF: 10.1)
44. Rajesh, R. (2020). A grey-layered ANP based decision support model for analyzing strategies of resilience in electronic supply chains. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 87, 103338. (SCI, IF: 7.5)
45. Rajesh, R. (2020). Network design for resilience in supply chains using novel crazy elitist TLBO. Neural Computing and Applications, 32(11), 7421-7437. (SCI, IF: 4.5)
46. Rajesh, R., & Rajendran, C. (2019). Grey-and rough-set-based seasonal disaster predictions: an analysis of flood data in India. Natural Hazards, 97, 395-435. (SCI, IF: 3.3)
47. Rajesh, R. (2019). A fuzzy approach to analyzing the level of resilience in manufacturing supply chains. Sustainable Production and Consumption, 18, 224-236. (SCI, IF: 10.9)
48. Rajesh, R. (2020). Group decision-making and grey programming approaches to optimal product mix in manufacturing supply chains. Neural Computing and Applications, 32(7), 2635-2649. (SCI, IF: 4.5)
49. Rajesh, R. (2018). On sustainability, resilience, and the sustainable–resilient supply networks. Sustainable Production and Consumption, 15, 74-88. (SCI, IF: 10.9)
50. Rajesh, R. (2018). Measuring the barriers to resilience in manufacturing supply chains using Grey Clustering and VIKOR approaches. Measurement, 126, 259-273. (SCI, IF: 5.2)
51. Rajesh, R., & Ravi, V. (2017). Analyzing drivers of risks in electronic supply chains: a grey–DEMATEL approach. The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 92, 1127-1145. (SCI, IF: 2.9)
52. Suresh Kumar, P., Shriram, R. G., Rajesh, R., & Rammohan, A. Causal Analysis of the challenges to electric Vehicles’ Adoption: Implications to emerging economies. Case Studies on Transport Policy, 15. (ABDC C)
Sponsored/ Consultancy Projects
1. Title: Predicting the social sustainability indicators of performances of Small and Medium Enterprises SMEs in India using grey Markov-models, Funding Agency: MATRICS-SERB, GoI, Role: Principal Investigator, Period: 2024 to 2027, Funding: ₹6.6 Lakhs
2. Title: Linking Psycho Social Conditions of People and the Effects of Pandemics: Reference to COVID-19 Situations in India, Funding Agency: CRG-SERB, GoI, Role: Principal Investigator, Period: 2024 to 2027, Funding: ₹25.476 Lakhs
3. Title: Evaluating the role of systemic sustainability: An empirical study in the Indian healthcare sector, Funding Agency: FRG-IIM Tiruchirappalli, Role: Principal Investigator, Period: 2023 to 2026, Funding: ₹5 Lakhs
4. Title: Integrating social sustainability into supplier evaluation: Case evaluation and development of methodologies, Funding Agency: Logistics & AI Consulting, Jeddah, Role: Principal Investigator, Period: 2022 to 2023, Funding: ₹3 Lakhs (Completed)
Book chapters/ Proceedings
1. Baheti, P., Sikka, M., Arya, K. V., & Rajesh, R. (2020, February). Federated Learning on Distributed Medical Records for Detection of Lung Nodules. In VISIGRAPP (4: VISAPP) (pp. 445-451).
2. Purswani, J., Rajesh, R., Khandelwal, R., & Singh, A. (2020). Chaos theory on generative adversarial networks for encryption and decryption of data. In Advances in Bioinformatics, Multimedia, and Electronics Circuits and Signals: Proceedings of GUCON 2019 (pp. 251-260). Springer Singapore.
3. Gupta, N., Rajesh, R., & Daultani, Y. (2021). Investigation on supply chain vulnerabilities and risk management practices in Indian manufacturing industries. In Computational Management: Applications of Computational Intelligence in Business Management (pp. 535-552). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
4. Siddharth, T., Daultani, Y., & Rajesh, R. (2021). Millennial Customers and Hangout Joints: An Empirical Study Using the Kano Quantitative Model. In Computational Management: Applications of Computational Intelligence in Business Management (pp. 137-157). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
Conference Chair/ Keynote
Publication committee chair: IEEE International Conference on Interdisciplinary Approaches in Technology and Management for Social Innovation (IATMSI), 2022 (Dec), ABV-IIITM Gwalior, India.
Editors' discussion: ICAMP 2024 (Dec), International Conference on Business Prosperity and Sustainability, JIMS, Rohini, Delhi,
Keynote speaker: ATAL FDP, Leveraging Digital Technologies for Circular Economy & SDGs, Thiagarajar School of Management, Madurai, 2024 (Dec).
Keynote speaker: IEEE International Conference on Interdisciplinary Approaches in Technology and Management for Social Innovation (IATMSI), 2024 (Mar), ABV-IIITM Gwalior, India.