Kelsey Taylor

Kelsey Taylor is an Assistant Professor of Supply Chain Management at the Asper School of Business, University of Manitoba. She completed her Ph.D. in Operations Management at the Ivey Business School at Western University and holds a Master’s of Environment and Sustainability from Western University with an earlier background in Sociology.

Her research examines multiple dimensions of environmental and social responsibility in supply chains using quantitative and qualitative research methods, such as a case studies, behavioural experiments, and econometric analysis. Topics of interest include: the role of activists in the adoption of sustainable supply chain practices, the B Corporation movement, social entrepreneurship, and the circular economy. Her ongoing research projects examine the supply chains of purpose-driven organizations like social enterprises to understand how and why different types of actors and institutions contribute to sustainable impact creation. Her work has been published in research journals such as the Journal of Supply Chain Management, International Journal of Operations & Production Management, Business Strategy and the Environment, and more.

Dr. Taylor is currently available to supervise graduate students who are interested in sustainable supply chains, the circular economy, or other related topics.

• Supply Chain Management
• Social Impact
• Social Entrepreneurship
• Behavioural Operations
   

• Supply Chain Management
• Operations Management
• Sustainability

Bals, L., Taylor, K.M., Rosa, E. & Ciulli, F. (In press). Extending the theory of the supply chain: Toward circular supply chain design. Resources, Conservation & Recycling.

Taylor, K.M. & Rosca, E. (In press). Toward a moral approach to stakeholder management: Insights from the inclusion of marginalized stakeholders in the operations of social enterprises. International Journal of Operations & Production Management. 

*Rosca, E. & Taylor, K.M. (In press). Delivering societal impact through supply chain design: Insights from B Corps. International Journal of Operations & Production Management. [Available online] *Authors contributed equally.

Shourkaei, M.M., Taylor, K.M., Dyck, B. (2024). Examining sustainable supply chain management via a social-symbolic work lens: Lessons from Patagonia. Business Strategy and the Environment, 33(2), 1477-1496. 

Taylor, K.M. & Rosca, E. (2023). Sink, swim, or drift: How social enterprises use supply chain social capital to balance tensions between impact and viability. Journal of Supply Chain Management, 59(2), 62-86. 

Taylor, K.M., Hajmohammad S. & Vachon, S. (2021). Activist Engagement and Industry-Level Change: Adoption of New Practices by Observing Firms. Industrial Marketing Management, 92, 295-306.

Kelsey M. Taylor & Stephan Vachon (2018) Empirical research on sustainable supply chains: IJPR’s contribution and research avenues, International Journal of Production Research, 56:1-2, 950-959, DOI: 10.1080/00207543.2017.1402139