CIAS Inn: “It’s worth spending more time at CIAS”
2024-07-18 12:44:00V.G. Venkatesh, Professor and Associate Dean of the EM Normandie Business School, researching supply chain management and sustainability issues, fell in love with the free atmosphere of CIAS during his stay in Budapest. He has recently returned to France, but plans to make several more trips to Budapest in the near future for his ongoing research.
The Indian-born professor, who lives in France, first visited Corvinus in 2023 as part of an Erasmus programme, when he gave a lecture to students of the Executive Master of Business programme and also started to form research collaborations with the staff members of the Institute of Operations and Decision. At the same time, he was offered the CIAS Guest Researcher Scholarship Programme, which fitted well with his interdisciplinary research profile.
“My research is currently based on three main pillars: sustainability, supply networks and digitalisation. In my master and doctoral programme at EM Normandie, I teach, among others, operations and supply chain planning, supply chain design and modelling, warehousing and distribution,” says Venkatesh, adding that his teaching and management commitments in France mean that he has less time for research during the year, which is why the CIAS scholarship was an attractive opportunity for him.
Venkatesh is also on the editorial board of several international journals of high repute in his field of expertise, such as Operations Management Research Journal and the International Journal of Logistics Management. In addition to his research work, he also regularly holds training sessions for industry players: “I have long-standing good relations with several industrial players here in Hungary, and my research is also heavily based on industrial case studies,” he adds.
In the past six months, Venkatesh has worked on three publications at CIAS on topics related to circular purchasing, operations research and corporate governance, all three of which he hopes to publish in Q1 international journals soon.
“I would recommend to any interested researcher that, if they have the opportunity, they try to take a break from their daily routine and come to CIAS for a longer period of time. This is how they can really benefit from the interdisciplinary profile of the institute and the many different types of research that go on at CIAS,” explains the researcher.
He spends most of his free time reading and walking, and has also discovered the centre of Budapest on foot: ‘I will miss this city, I like it more than where I live. In addition, I was lucky enough to be one of the first guest researchers to be accommodated in the professor’s apartment on the new Gellért Campus. Well, what can I say, it’s really hard to leave that view now”, he adds with a smile.