Influence of Industry 4.0 on the success of new-age enterprises – a resource-based view

P.R.C. Gopal is working as an Assistant Professor in Department of Management Studies, NIT Warangal. He was awarded doctorate from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IITKGP) in the area of sustainable supply chain management. He holds a Master’s degree from NIT Warangal and Bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering from Acharya Nagarjuna University, Andhra Pradesh, India. He has published papers in various peer-reviewed international journals such as Annals of Operations Research, Transport Policy, Production Planning and Control (PPC), International Journals of Sustainable Engineering (IJSE) (Taylor and Francis) and International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management (IJPPM), an official journal of World Confederation of Productivity Science (WCPS). His fields of expertise include but not limited to Operations Management, Supply Chain Management, Project Management, Quality Engineering, Total Quality Management and Business Research Methodology.

Mohideen Rahmath Fathima has done an MBA from the Department of Management Studies, National Institute of Technology, Warangal, India. Her areas of interest are Operations and Finance.

M. Ramkumar is an Associate Professor at the Department of Operations Management at Indian Institute of Management Raipur, India. Prior to this, Ramkumar was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Chair of Logistics Management at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland. Previously, he was with the Institute for Financial Management and Research as an Assistant Professor. He received his B.E. in Production Engineering from Anna University, Chennai (2007), Postgraduate Diploma in Management from SCMS, Cochin (2009), and PhD from the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (2015). His research is interdisciplinary and lies on the interface between Operations Management and information systems, and encompasses supply chain technologies, supply chain sustainability, and humanitarian operations. His research has been published in international journals such as Service Science (INFORMS), British Journal of Management, International Journal of Production and Operations Management, Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, International Journal of Production Economics, International Journal of Production Research, Production Planning and Control, Annals of Operations Research, Computers and Industrial Engineering, Transport Policy, IEEE Systems Journal and other peer reviewed journals.

Nripendra P. Rana is a Professor in Digital Marketing and Systems and the Head of Department for International Business, Entrepreneurship and Marketing at the Queen’s Business School, Queen’s University Belfast, UK. His current research interests focus primarily on adoption and diffusion of emerging ICTs, e-commerce, m-commerce, e-government and digital and social media marketing. He has published more than 350 research papers in a range of leading academic journals, conference proceedings, books etc. He has co-edited five books on digital and social media marketing, emerging markets and supply and Operations Management. He has also co-edited special issues, organized tracks, mini-tracks and panels in leading conferences. He is the Chief Editor of International Journal of Electronic Government Research and an Associate Editor of International Journal of Information Management. He is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA) in the UK.