Grant, David B
David B. Grant was Vice Rector (Dean) of Research and Societal Impact and Professor of Supply Chain Management and Social Responsibility at Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki, Finland. He was also a Bualuang ASEAN Chair Professor at Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand.
He received his PhD from Edinburgh University and his thesis, investigating customer service, satisfaction, and service quality in UK food processing logistics, received the James Cooper Memorial Cup PhD Award from the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (UK) in 2003. His research interests include logistics customer service, satisfaction, and service quality, retail logistics including omnichannel, reverse and sustainable and societal logistics. He has over 250 publications in various fora and is Senior Associate Editor for the International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management, Associate Editor for the Journal of Supply Chain Management and on the editorial board of several other international journals.
His book for Kogan Page, Fashion Logistics, co-authored with Professor John Fernie, is in its second edition. In 2019, David was ranked fifth in Economics, Business and Management and first in Industrial Economics and Logistics in an academic study evaluating Finnish professorial research impact and productivity.
Fernie, John
John Fernie is Emeritus Professor of Retail Marketing at Heriot-Watt University. He was previously Professor of Retailing & Logistics and also Director of the Institute for Retail Studies at the University of Stirling. He has written and contributed to numerous textbooks and papers on retail management, especially in the field of retail logistics. He is editor of the International Journal of Retail and Distribution Management, and received the prestigious award of Editor of the Year in 1997, in addition to Leading Editor awards in 1994 and 1998. He is on the editorial boards of other leading journals in the field. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport and an active member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing.
John Fernie is Emeritus Professor of Retail Marketing at Heriot-Watt University, Scotland. He has written and contributed to numerous textbooks and papers on retail management, especially in the field of retail logistics. He was the founder editor of the International Journal of Retail & Distribution Management and is on the editorial board of numerous marketing and logistics journals. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Logistics and Transport. He holds an Honorary Professorship at St Andrews University and several visiting positions at European universities.
David B Grant was Professor of Supply Chain Management and Social Responsibility at the Hanken School of Economics, Finland. David has over 250 publications in various refereed journals, books and conference proceedings and was on the editorial board of several internationally ranked journals. Honours in 2019 include the award of the Bualuang ASEAN Chair Professorship at Thammasat University in Thailand.
