**Meet the editors**

Hakan TOZAN (PhD) is currently Associate Professor and Head of Department of Industrial Engineering at Turkish Naval Academy. He obtained his PhD from Marmara University, Turkey. His research interests include operations research, fuzzy logic, decision support systems, supply chain optimization and production planning and control.

Alper Ertürk (PhD) is currently Associate Professor of Management and Head of Social Sciences Department at Turkish Naval Academy. He obtained his PhD in organizational behavior from Gebze Institute of Technology, Turkey. His research interests include leadership, organizational trust, cognitive styles, and perceptions of workplace fairness.

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#### **Preface XI**



## Preface

In today's rapidly changing business environment, strong influence of globalization and in‐ formation technologies drives practitioners and researchers of modern supply chain man‐ agement interested in applying different contemporary management paradigms and approaches into supply chain process. In order to foster their performance and sustainabili‐ ty, business practitioners and academic researchers seek ways to consolidate new ideas and experiences. Hence, the field of supply chain management has evolved from inventory, warehouse, and transportation management to a more complex and holistic structure by in‐ tegrating current trends, theories, models and practices in the management science field throughout supply chains. However, although application of different management ap‐ proaches extends the opportunities, it also brings challenges for management of supply chains from first to last step.

This book intends to provide a guide for researchers, graduate students, and practitioners on incorporating every aspect of contemporary management paradigms into overall supply chain functions such as procurement, warehousing, manufacturing/production, logistics/ transportation and disposal. With this book, graduate students will comprehend how to in‐ tegrate different organizational theories and management approaches into a supply chain; researchers will be able to explore the individual and combined influences of specific organ‐ izational theories, trends and methodologies on the supply chains; and practitioners will be able to see their supply chains from a more holistic perspective and thus fathom how to in‐ corporate modern management applications into their supply network.

By examining state-of-the-art organization and management theories, trends and issues, this book shall serve to capture the contemporary applications in the field of supply chain man‐ agement. Hence, we hope that the readers of this book will gain a broader perspective of the supply chain management.

#### **Hakan TOZAN** Turkish Naval Academy Dept. of Industrial Engineering Chair of Naval Operations Research Program Tuzla/Istanbul, TURKEY

#### **Alper ERTÜRK**

Turkish Naval Academy Dept. of Social Sciences Tuzla/Istanbul, TURKEY
