Abhishek Srivastava holds Ph.D from Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode in the area of Quantitative Methods and Operations Management. Prior to joining his doctoral program, he worked as Assistant Professor at National Institute of Technology Jalandhar. He had completed his Master's in Fiber Science & Technology from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. He received All India 2nd Rank in Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) 2012. He is a recipient of prestigious POMS Emerging Economies Doctoral Student Award (EEDSA) 2019, Emerald Best Paper Award at Society of Operations Management Conference 2019, and Highly Commended Paper Award at Indian Subcontinent Decision Sciences Institute Conference 2018. His research focuses on unauthorized selling under gray markets and impact on profitability, strategies to cope with gray markets, buyer-supplier relationship in a supply chain, supply chain coordination, and pricing in game theoretic environments. He has published in Decision Sciences journal. He has also published several interesting teaching case studies in Emerald and Ivey publishing.

He currently serves as Chairperson of the EMBA program at the Dehradun campus and is also VP at large at POM Society India.

• Operations-Marketing Interface
• Gray Markets and Supply Chain Impacts
• Second-Hand Markets and Blockchain Applications
• Supply Chain Coordination
• Policy Interventions for Electric Vehicle Adoption

Significant Publications

• Srivastava, A., Choi, T. M., Shukla, S., & Devi, Y. Delegation versus Control Mechanism and Impact on Product Upgrade in Second-Hand Market Selling. Production and Operations Management. (Forthcoming).
• Srivastava, A., Choi, T. M., Mahajan, A., & Roy, V. (2024). Impacts of gray market selling on the supply chain under product upgrade and pricing flexibility decisions. Naval Research Logistics (NRL), 71(3), 365-388.
• Srivastava, A., Mateen, A., Narayanamurthy, G., Niranjan, S., & Sarkar, A. (2024). Impact of gray markets on strategic channel choice and social welfare. Annals of Operations Research, 1-28.
• Roy, V., Vijay, T. S., & Srivastava, A. (2022). The distinctive agenda of service failure recovery in e-tailing: Criticality of logistical/non-logistical service failure typologies and e-tailing ethics. Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 64, 102837.
• Srivastava, A., Kumar, R. R., Chakraborty, A., Mateen, A., & Narayanamurthy, G. (2022). *Design and selection of government policies for electric vehicles adoption: A global perspective*. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 161, 102726.
• Srivastava, A. & Mateen, A. (2019). Supply Chain Contracts in the Presence of Gray Markets. Decision Sciences. DOI: 10.1111/deci.12420.

Working Papers

• Implications of Reverse Logistics Strategies for Selling Refurbished Products. To be submitted to Production and Operations Management. Co-authors: Nagesh Murthy & Shipra Shukla.
• Fake It till You Make It: Countering the Counterfeit Using Disruptive Technology for the Uninformed Consumers in the Second-Hand Market. To be submitted to Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. Co-authors: Shipra Shukla & Nagesh Murthy.
• Shukla, S., Srivastava, A., & Mahajan, A. Is It Wise to Adopt Blockchain Technology to Cope with the Unauthorized Domestic Gray Markets?
• Kundu, S., Sarkar, A., & Srivastava, A. The Restaurant-Platform Conundrum in the Sharing Economy: Restaurant’s Capacity, Pricing and Channel Decisions in the Presence of Online Food Delivery Platforms.

Case Publications

• DATRI: Solving Donor’s Dilemma for Saving Lives. Ivey Publishing (2018).
• Contrasting Ideologies Between Generations in Sree Subramania Ayurvedic Nursing Home - A 400-Year-Old Family-Owned Organization. Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies (2018).
• Cracking the Conundrum of e-Cargo Logistics: Curious Case of LoadExx. Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies (2023).

• Program Director - Executive Development Programme in Advanced Supply Chain Management and Analytics
  Conducted in collaboration with Nulearn, currently leading Batch 2.
• Executive Program in Operations and Supply Chain Management (EPOSCM)
  A one-year online executive program in partnership with TimesPro, currently leading Batch 5.
• Executive Program in General Management (EPGM)
  A one-year online executive program aimed at fostering managerial skills.
• Management Development Programme on Total Quality Management for DRDO Personnel
  Conducted from February 21, 2022, to March 25, 2022.
• Focused on equipping DRDO professionals with quality management frameworks and practices.

Chairperson - EMBA program at Dehradun campus

• POMS Early Career Research Accomplishments Award (2024).
• Winner Emerging Economies Showcase Award, Decision Sciences Institute (DSI) Annual Conference, Arizona (2024).
• POMS Emerging Economies Doctoral Student Award, Washington DC, USA (2019).
• Emerald Best Research Paper Award, XXII Annual International Conference of Society of Operations Management, IIM Kozhikode (2018).
• Highly Commendable Research Paper Award, 11th ISDSI International Conference, IIM Trichy (2017).
• Ranked among the Top 3 Students in M.Tech, IIT Delhi, with a CGPA of 9.19/10 (2014).
• Achieved All India Rank 02 in Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) (2012).

Supply Chain Management, Operations Management, Services Operations Management, Decision Modelling, Mathematical Methods for Research.