Jourabchi, Mehdi
Faculty
Dhillon School of Business - Global Business
- Phone
- (403) 317-2898
- mehdi.jourabchi@uleth.ca
Biography
Mehdi Jourabchi is a faculty member with the University of Lethbridge's Dhillon School of Business. He got his PhD in Operations and Supply Chain Management from Lazaridis School of Business and Economics at Wilfrid Laurier University (WLU).
He teaches Operations and Quantitative Management (Mgt 2070), Supply Chain Management and Sustainability (Mgt 3070), Operations Modelling with Spreadsheets (Mgt 3075), and Supply Chain Technology and Blockchain (Mgt 4074) among those courses offered in a minor in Supply Chain Management at Dhillon. He is also part of a new Business Analytics (BANA) concentration in the Master of Science in Management (MSc (Mgt)) program, teaching Business Decision Analytics (BANA 5004).
Prior to joining Dhillon in 2020, he was a PhD candidate (2015-2020) at the Lazaridis School of Business and Economics at WLU where he also taught Operations Management (BU 375), Fundamental of Operations (BU 225), and Management Information Systems (BU 415).
He previously graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Information Technology Engineering from Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST) and a Master of Engineering Management from University Putra Malaysia (UPM) prior to his PhD studies in Operations and Supply Chain at the Lazaridis School.
Publications
(1)tJourabchi, S.M. Mehdi, Kilgour, D.M., Haughton, M., and Araghi, M. "Environmental Goal Misalignment between Logistics Service Providers and Shippers: An Analytical Perspective", Accepted Subject to Revision; Journal: Cleaner Logistics and Supply Chain.
(2)tJourabchi, S.M. Mehdi, Haughton, M. "Environmental Gap in Logistics Service Provider-Shipper Interface: A Conceptual Theory Building", In preparation for submission; Target Journal: Transportation Research: Part D.
(3)tJourabchi, S.M. Mehdi, Kilgour, D.M., Haughton, M., and Araghi, M. "Environmental Goal Misalignment between Logistics Service Providers and Shippers: A Power Perspective", In preparation for submission; Target Journal: Transportation Research: Part E.
(4)tJourabchi, S.M. Mehdi, Kilgour, D.M., Haughton, M. "Coordination to Green Logistics Service Provider-Shipper Interface: A Game-Theoretic Analysis", In progress; Target Journal: Transportation Science.
(5)tJourabchi, S.M. Mehdi, Arabian, T., Leman, Z. and Ismail, M.Y.B., 2014. Contribution of lean and Six Sigma to effective cost of quality management. International Journal of Productivity and Quality Management, 14(2), pp.149-165.
(6)tArabian, T., Jourabchi, S.M. Mehdi, Leman, Z. and Ismail, M.Y., 2013. A research on the impact of cost of quality models and reporting system on managing cost of quality. International Proceedings of Economics Development and Research, 59, p.50.
Research Interests
His primary research interests are in analytical modeling and data analysis in the context of sustainable logistics, freight transportation, and supply chain management.
The core concept of his research is to introduce the notion of "Environmental Gap" in the Logistics Service Provider (LSP)-Shipper Interface, in other words, the "misalignment" between the parties' environmental decisions. The inspiration for his dissertation emerged from an ongoing debate that exposes a gap in the transportation industry about who should pay for greening initiatives - shippers or Logistics Service Providers (LSPs) - the outsource entities shippers employ to manage warehousing, distribution, and transportation of freight. His research adds a new perspective to the study of a supplier's environmental performance assessment, emphasizing conflict resolution in the parties' accountability for environmental issues in the supply chain.
To support his studies and research, he received grant awards and scholarships that demonstrate provincial and national recognition for his research project. He was awarded an Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) as an International Student in 2016; a P&G Centre for Business and Sustainability Research Grant Award and a Supply Chain Management Association of Ontario Achievement (SCMAO) of Excellence in 2017; a Transport Canada Scholarship in Sustainable Transportation in the 2018 Canadian Transportation Research Forum (CTRF) annual competition; and a Co-operators Centre for Business and Sustainability Research Grant Award and a Lazaridis Institute of Technology Research Seed Grant in 2019. His research also received a MS2Discovery Student Researcher Award in 2020.