Javad Feizabadi

Dr. Feizabadi (Ph.D.) is an Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management at the Asper School of Business. Before joining Asper, he held the same position at the Asia School of Business in collaboration with the MIT Sloan School of Management. He was also a faculty member of the MIT Global SCALE (Supply Chain and Logistics Excellence) Network and served as a Research Affiliate at the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics (CTL) for over a decade. Before Joining MIT SCALE Network, he also worked as a researcher at IMD Business School in Switzerland.

Before entering academia, he spent eight years in the manufacturing industries, ranging from automotive to agricultural machinery. That grounding has shaped a career spent moving between research and practice. He has led applied projects with Volkswagen, Maersk, Procter & Gamble, Nestlé, BASF, DHL, BlueScope and Hanes.

Dr. Feizabadi’s research examines system-level dynamics in supply chain networks
— how interdependencies at the firm, dyad, and network levels shape performance, and how those systems adapt to internal and external disruption A distinguishing feature of the work is its unit of analysis: the triad of a focal firm, its principal supplier and customer, where dependence can be observed on both sides of the same firm rather than inferred from one.

Recent developments have changed how discovery works in management research. Advances in algorithms, wide access to structured and unstructured data, and inexpensive computation have made it possible to detect patterns that were previously beyond reach. His current work builds on that shift, asking how rich, multidimensional archival data can explain performance among sequentially interdependent firms. Alongside this, he works on behavioural supply chain management complements it by inquiring how managers form coarse cognitive representations of complex supply chain performance landscapes, which he models using NK and NKC simulation.

His scholarship appears in the Strategic Management Journal, the Journal of Business Logistics, the International Journal of Production Research and Transportation Research Part E, among others, and has been cited more than 1,000 times since 2020. Methodologically he is deliberately pluralist, having published work using structural equation modelling, event studies, fuzzy-set QCA, sublattice complementarity analysis, NK/NKC simulation, econometric panel methods and machine learning. He serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Analytics.

He has supervised twelve graduate students, each on an industry-sponsored problem and three of which became publications. He has designed and delivered custom executive programmes for approximately 195 senior and mid-level managers across Asia, Europe and North America, and has given some twenty invited talks and keynotes to industry and policy audiences.

• Strategic supply chain decisions
• Interdependencies in supply chains
• Supply chain adaptability and resiliency

• Supply chain planning and design
• Supply chain financial analysis

Feizabadi, J. (2026). Strategic adaptation in shifting landscapes: A paradox-theoretic and computational perspective. Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences/Revue Canadienne des Sciences de l’Administration, e 70060

Feizabadi, J., Gligor, D.M., Alibakhshi Motlagh, S., & Beltran, D.T. (2026). Reframing supply chain resilience as value creation: A business model perspective. Operations Management Research, 19(3), 37.

Pillai, K.G., Gligor, D.M., & Feizabadi, J. (2026). Managing global supply chains during a crisis: Exploring the drivers of relational agility and relationship identity. International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications, 1–27. 

Feizabadi, J., Caliskan, F., Gligor, D.M, Gölgeci, I., Garg, V., Idug, Y., & Ekezie, U. (2025). Exploring the impact of punishments on employee effort and performance in the workplace: Insights from England's Premier League. European Management Review, 22(2), 318–333.

Feizabadi,  J., Alibakhshi, S., & Gligor, D.M. (2024). Exploring supply chain ambidexterity: A multilevel micro-foundational perspective. Supply Chain Management: An International Journal. 29(5), 885–908.

Fiezabadi, J., Alibakhshi, S., & Gligor, D.M. (2024). From a rugged to a smooth supply chain performance landscape: A complementary perspective. Production Planning & Control, 35(14), 1797–1820.

Feizabadi, J., Gligor,  D.M., Motlagh, S.A., & Srivastava, R. (2024). When and under what conditions ambidextrous supply chains prove effective? Insights from simulation and empirical studies. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 183, Article 103461. 

Feizabadi, J., Gligor, D.M., & Choi, T.Y. (2023). Examining the resiliency of intertwined supply networks: A jury-rigging perspective. International Journal of Production Research, 61(8), 2432–2451.

Feizabadi, J., Gligor , D.,  & Alibakhshi Motlagh, S. (2023) From a rugged to a smooth supply chain performance landscape: a complementarity perspective. Production Planning & Control.

Azadegan, A. and Feizabadi, J. (2022). Organizational learning theory and its application in purchasing/supply and supply chain management. Book Chapter, Editors Lisa M. Ellram, Wendy L. Tate, Lydia Bals; Publisher: Edward Edgar Publishing

Gligor, D., Feizabadi, J., Pohlen, T., Maloni, M., & Ogden, J. A. (2022). The impact of the supply chain orientation fit between supply chain members: A triadic perspective. Journal of Business Logistics, 00, 1– 22.

Feizabadi J., Gligor, D., Choi, T.Y. (2021). Examining the viability of intertwined supply networks: A jury-rigging perspective. International Journal of Production Research.

Gligor, D., Novicevic, M., Feizabadi, J., Stapleton, A. (2021). Examining investor reactions to appointments of Black top management executives and CEOs. Strategic Management Journal.

Feizabadi, J., Gligor, D. and Alibakhshi, S. (2021). Strategic supply chains: a configurational perspective. The International Journal of Logistics Management.

Feizabadi J.., Alibakhshi M. S. (2021). Synergistic effect of cooperation and coordination to enhance the firm’s supply chain adaptability and performance. Benchmarking: An International Journal.

Feizabadi, J., Gligor D.M., Alibakhshi S.M, (2021). Examining the synergistic effect of supply chain agility, adaptability, and alignment: A complementarity perspective. Supply Chain Management: An International Journal.

Gligor, D., Feizabadi, J., Russo, I., Maloni, M., Goldsby T. (2020). The Triple-A Supply Chain and Strategic Resources: Developing Competitive Advantage. International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management. 

Feizabadi, J. (2020). Machine learning demand forecasting and supply chain performance. International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications, 1-23.

Feizabadi, J.; Gligor, D.; Alibakhshi Motlagh, Somayeh (2019). The triple-As supply chain competitive advantage. Benchmarking: An International Journal, DOI: 10.1108/BIJ-10-2018-0317

Feizabadi, J., Maloni, M. and Gligor, D. (2019). Benchmarking the triple-A supply chain: orchestrating agility, adaptability, and alignment. Benchmarking: An International Journal, 26 (1): 271-295.

Feizabadi, J., & Shrivastava, A. (2018). Does AI-enabled demand forecasting improve supply chain efficiency? Supply Chain Management Review, 22, 8–10.

Feizabadi, J., & Sridharan, S. (2019). Supply chain-enabled process innovation: How to embark on the journey. Supply Chain Management Review.

David M. Gligor; Mary C. Holcomb; Feizabadi, J. (2016). An exploration of the strategic antecedents of firm supply chain agility: The role of firm ‘orientations. International. Journal of Production Economics, 179: 24–34

Fatodu, Olaiya O.; Feizabadi, J. (2015). Implications of Customer Roles in Engineer-to-Order Service Supply Chain. International Journal of Logistics Systems and Management, 22(3):22-33

Feizabadi, J.; Mahender, S., Alibakhshi Motlagh, S. (2014). Contribution of the supply chain to corporate strategy: a case study in agriculture machinery industry. International Journal of Logistics Systems and Management, 18(4): 473–499.

Feizabadi, J.; Cordon, C. (2012). Developing a Framework for Identification and Analysis of the Strategic Resources and Capabilities in Supply Chains. Operations and Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, 5(2): 2012.

Karimi Dastjerd, D., Akbari Jokar, M. R., & Feizabadi, J. (2009). Developing a configuration for classifying supply chains based on RBV in automotive industry. Industrial Management Journal, 1(2).

Karimi Dastjerdji, D., Feizabadi, J., & Alibakhshi Motlagh, S. (2009). Strategy development approaches in gaining sustainable competitive advantage and its examples in international automobile industry (including an analysis of its impacts on the domestic industry). Organizational Culture Management, 6(18), 5–50.

 Feizabadi, J., & Cordon, C. (n.d.). A new classification of supply chains based on resource-based view in automotive industry. 

Feizabadi, J., & Alibakhshi Motlagh, S. (n.d.). A new approach for forecasting demand of functional products. 

Feizabadi, J., & Motlagh, S. A. (n.d.). End-to-end supply chain strategy: A consumer packaged goods industry perspective. 

Feizabadi J. and Sridharan S. (2019), “Supply chain-enabled process innovation: How to embark on the journey, “Supply Chain Management Review, November, p. 6-9

Feizabadi J. and Shrivastava A. (2018), “Does AI-enabled demand forecasting improve supply chain efficiency?” Supply Chain Management Review, November, pp. 8-10.

Feizabadi, J.; “Gaining Power Through Diversity”; Automotive Logistics Magazine;

Feizabadi, J.; The Malaysian Automotive Industry; “Automotive Logistics” Interviews; 

Feizabadi, J.; “Supply Chain Risk and Reward for Malaysia’s Automakers” MIT CTL Supply Chain Frontier, Issue 49

Feizabadi, J.; “A New Road Map for Auto Industry”; MIT CTL Supply Chain Frontier, Issue 46, 2012

Feizabadi, J.; “Outsource versus insource decision made easier”; MIT CTL Supply Chain Frontier, Issue 59
 

In 2015, the United Nations identified 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a shared framework to address urgent global challenges, from poverty reduction to environmental sustainability. This scholar’s research advances knowledge and contributes to impact in the following SDG(s):