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This book offers a selection of the best papers presented at the international scientific conference "Digital Transformation in Industry: Trends, Management, Strategies", held by the Institute of Economics of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia in November 2020.

 

The main focus of the book is to evaluate trends and perspectives of digital transformation in industry and industrial markets through the dissemination of Industry 4.0. The aim of the topics discussed is to create an idea of introduction mechanisms for digitization processes and to specify successful strategies of digital transformation in all sectors of industrial enterprises. The experience of developed and developing economies, as well as small and large enterprises implementing IT and other technological innovations are included.

 

Students as well as managers of industrial organizations alike can benefit from the results of the topics covered.

Professor Vikas Kumar is a director of research and professor of operations and supply chain management at Bristol Business School, University of the West of England, UK. He serves on the editorial board of around six international journals including International Journal of Supply Chain and Operations Resilience, International Journal of Service, Economics, and Management and Internationa Journal of Manufacturing Systems. He has guest edited a number of special issues in high impact journals. He is also reviewer of more than 15 international journals. Prof. Kumar’s current research focus is on sustainable supply chain management and Supply Chain 4.0. His other research interests include supply chain improvement, short food supply chains, green supply chain, process modelling, innovation in SMEs, operations strategy, and service supply chains.

 

Professor Jafar Rezaei is an associate professor and Head of Section Transport and Logistics at Delft Universityof Technology (TU Delft), The Netherlands. He earned his Ph.D. at the faculty of Technology, Policy and Management (TPM), TU Delft. He has a background in operations research, and has published in several peer-reviewed journals. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Supply Chain Management Science. In 2015, he developed the Best Worst Method (BWM). His main research interests are freight transport modeling and analysis, supply chain partnership, supplier selection and segmentation, multi-objective and multi-criteria decision-making.

 

Professor Victoria Akberdina is Deputy Director of the Institute of Economics of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. She heads the Department of Regional Industrial Policy and Economic Security. Prof. Victoria Akberdina performs fundamental and applied research on the problems of industrial policy formation, forecasting methodology and modeling the evolution of the economic and technological development of industrial complexes, and conducts research on the structural proportions of economic development. In 2019, she was awarded the title Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

 

Evgeny Kuzmin is a researcher at the Department of Regional Economic Policy and Economic Security of the Institute of Economics of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and Senior Lecturer of the Department of Enterprises Economics of the Ural State University of Economics. He is a reviewer of high impact international journals including Journal of Cleaner Production and Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues. His research interests are risk, uncertainty, economic crises, sustainability, public-private partnerships, investments, business planning, industrialization, industrial policy, industry markets, modeling, economic growth and development, entrepreneurship, business activity.