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Gopalakrishnan Narayanamurthy is currently pursuing his Fellow (Doctoral) Program in Management in Quantitative Methods and Operations Management (QM&OM) in the Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIMK), Kerala, India. He is also a Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral Research Scholar from Carlson School of Management. His research focuses on applying and assessing lean and sustainability initiatives in different manufacturing and service sectors.

Anand Gurumurthy is an Associate Professor in the area of “Quantitative Methods and Operations Management (QM&OM)” at the Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode (IIMK), Kerala, India. Prior to this appointment, he was an Assistant Professor with the Mechanical Engineering Department of Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS) Pilani, Pilani Campus, Rajasthan, India, where he also completed his PhD in the area of Lean Manufacturing and ME in Manufacturing Systems Engineering. He received his BE in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Madras, India. He has around 13 years of teaching/research experience. He started his career as a Production Engineer with one of India’s leading industrial houses – the TVS Group. He has published around 40 papers in peer-reviewed national and international journals such as International Journal of Production Research, Production Planning & Control, Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management, etc. He has also presented many papers in various national/international conferences. His current research interests include application of lean thinking in other sectors, humanitarian supply chain management, and unique applications of multi-criteria decision-making models.

Raju Chockalingam is a Professor in the area of “Quantitative Methods and Operations Management (QM&OM)” at the Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode (IIMK), Kerala, India. Before joining IIMK, he was a Professor in Quantitative Methods and Operations Research in SDM Institute of Management Development, Mysore, Karnataka, India. He was also a Visiting Professor at the Armstrong Atlantic State University, Savannah, Georgia, USA from January to February 2001. He has around 32 years of teaching/research experience. He also played a key role in the administration as the Chairperson, the Public Relations Officer, etc., in those educational institutions he is associated with. His research interests are in the areas of improving education systems, blended learning, acceptance sampling, partial least square (PLS) regression, and econometrics. He has published many papers in peer-reviewed journals and has presented his research in a variety of international and national forums.