Improving manufacturing supply chain performance: nexus of industrial Internet of Things, blockchain technology and innovativeness

Dr Shafique Ur Rehman is currently working as Post Doc at the Research Institute of Business Analytics and Supply Chain Management, College of Management, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China. He has several research publications in internationally well-reputed (Social Science Citations Index (SSCI), ESCI, Scopus, ABDC and HEC-indexed) journals.

Dr Muhammad Usman is working as Assistant Professor at Hailey College of Banking and Finance, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan. He has PhD in Business Administration from the School of Management and Economics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China. His research interest areas are industrial and enterprise innovation management, R&D investments, TMT compensation policies, digital economy and business intelligence, financial and information technologies, green technologies and sustainable economic development.

Yudi Fernando, PhD, is an Associate Professor and a vice president of the Society of Logisticians, Malaysia/Pertubuhan Pakar Logistik Malaysia (LogM). He is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Industrial Management and Journal of Governance and Integrity at Universiti Malaysia Pahang. He previously held a managerial position in the electronics industry for several years. He has been appointed as an honourable lecturer at BINUS University and a Full Professor (visiting/adjunct) at City University Malaysia, Universitas Airlangga and Universitas Brawijaya. He is a Research Committee Chair and founding member of the Malaysian Association of Business and Management Scholars (MABMS).

Dr Diyana Kamarudin is currently the Head of Research Cluster for Marketing and Entrepreneurship and is an Academic Research Fellow for the Centre for Software Development and Integrated Computing, University Malaysia Pahang. She is also a Senior Lecturer at City University Malaysia. She specialises in evaluation, measurement and research (both qualitative and quantitative research methodology and analysis). She previously taught at Western Michigan University, USA, and has given numerous seminars inside and outside Malaysia, such as Indonesia, Turkey and the Philippines. Her research interests are communication technology, specifically computer-mediated communication, negotiation, educational leadership and organisational behaviour.

Dr Abdul Waheed has PhD management (marketing) with distinction from Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. His teaching and research interests include digital/electronic marketing, consumer behaviour, supply chain management and digital corporate social responsibility. Waheed’s research mainly appeared in the Journal of Business Ethics, Information and Management, Journal of Cleaner Production, Baltic Journal of Management, Sustainable Development, etc. He is an active member of the editorial board and review committee in varied International SSCI (higher education commission W category) journals.