Short bio

Dr. Md Shamimul Islam is an Assistant Professor at UBD School of Business and Economics, Universiti Brunei Darussalam. Previously he worked as Assistant Professor at BRAC Business School, BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.  He earned his Ph.D. in supply chain management from Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM). Prior to joining Brac University, he held the position of Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Business at ASA University Bangladesh, and previously served as a lecturer in the Faculty of Business at World University of Bangladesh. Dr. Islam is a distinguished recipient of the USM Fellowship Scheme and has been honored three times with the prestigious "Sanggar Sanjung" award, recognizing his outstanding contributions to journal publications. His multidisciplinary research interests primarily revolve around green and sustainable supply chain management, environmental logistics, corporate sustainability, and operations management. His research works have been published in top tier journals like the Journal of Cleaner Production, Resource Conservation and Recycling, and Operations Management Research. He employs diverse quantitative methodologies including Fuzzy importance and performance analysis (FIPA), Fuzzy decision-making trial and evaluation laboratory (Fuzzy DEMATEL), and structural equation modeling (SEM) using SmartPLS, AMOS, WrapPLS, as well as qualitative analysis using NVivo. He obtained his Master and Bachelor degrees from the Faculty of Business, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.

TEACHING INTERESTS

•  Green supply chain management

• Logistics and supply chain management

• Research methodology

• Operations management

• Total quality management

PROFESSIONAL TRAINIER 

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• Fuzzy importance and performance analysis (FIPA)

• Fuzzy DEMATEL

• Structural equation modeling (SEM) using SmartPLS

• Systematic literature review

• Designing questionnaire for social sciences

• SPSS

• Writing research paper for top tier journals

Consultancy

For PhD/Master's Students:

• Developing problem statements

• Identifying and designing research methodologies

• Assisting in data analysis

For Practitioners:

• Collaborative research projects

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Research interests

The research interest covers primarily supply chain and operations management; more specifically, it covers the following contextual and methodological areas:

Contexts

• Sustainable supply chain management

• Green supply chain management

• Logistics

• Sustainable logistics

• Halal logistics

• Supply chain management

• Corporate sustainability assessment

• Islam and green supply chain management

• Ethical codes for environmental concern

Methodologies

·         Quantitative

o   Structural equation modeling (SEM) (SmartPLS, AMOS, WrapPLS)

o   Multi Attribute Decision Making methods (Multi Criteria Decision Making and Multi Objective Decision Making)

o   Fuzzy Set Theory

o   Decision making trial and evaluation laboratory (DEMATEL)

o   Importance and performance analysis approach (IPA)

·         Qualitative

o   NVivo (data mining, word cloud, word tree, modeling),

o   Quirkos