Dr. Foropon Cyril

Dr. Cyril Foropon is Full Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management, and the Director of Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA) Programs at Montpellier Business School (MBS). He holds a PhD in Management from HEC Paris. His research interests are in the fields of quality management and humanitarian supply chain management. He is particularly interested in the implementation of Lean management within both service and manufacturing organizations, quality management practices within ISO 9000 candidate organizations, process management within humanitarian non-governmental organizations, the impact of emerging technologies in the field of operations and supply chain management, and the use of metaphors in operations management theory building. His articles are published in IJPE, IJPR, IJOPM, AOR, JCP, MD, IJIM, JEIM, IJLM, TFSC, amongst other leading academic journals. He serves as an Associate Editor of Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management.

Case method teaching expert (Harvard Business School), International Teachers Program (ITP) participant (London Business School), and Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Executive Certified (Centrale Supélec), Professor Foropon has more than 15 years of teaching experience in front of a large variety of audiences (Undergraduate, MBA, Executive MBA, Master, MSc, DBA, and Executive education), at leading international business schools (France, Canada, China, India). Moreover, he has developed a CGE-accredited Master of Science (MSc) in Lean Operations Management with a view to prepare all MSc students to face challenges, to solve problems, and to embrace opportunities within all types of companies in order to transform these firms into world-class and highly successful companies.
Cyril is the Director of Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA) Programs at MBS offered successfully in China and Tunisia.

Dubey R., Bryde D.J., Dwivedi Y., Graham G., Foropon C. & PapadopoulosT. 2023. Dynamic digital capabilities and supply chain resilience: The role of government effectiveness. International Journal of Production Economics, 258: 108790.

Parkhi S., Karande K., Barge P., Belal H.M. & Foropon C. Forthcoming. Unfolding design and technology for superior sales growth under moderating effect of technological environment. Journal of Entreprise Information Management.

Dubey R., Gunasekaran A. & Foropon C. Forthcoming. Improving information alignment and coordination in humanitarian supply chain through blockchain technology. Journal of Enterprise Information Management.

Fernando Y., Tseng M-L, Wahyuni-Td I.S., de Sousa Jabbour A.B.L., Chiappetta Jabbour C.J., Foropon C. Forthcoming. Cyber supply chain risk management and performance in industry 4.0 era: information system security practices in Malaysia. Journal of Industrial and Production Engineering.

Dubey R., Bryde DJ., Dwivedi YK., Graham G. & Foropon C. 2022. Impact of Artificial Intelligence-driven Big Data analytics culture on agility and resilience in humanitarian supply chain: A practice-based view. International Journal of Production Economics, 250: 108618.

Han S., Mo Y., Chen L., Luo Z., Foropon C. & Belal H.H. Forthcoming. A multi-period closed-loop supply chain network design with circular route planning. Annals of Operations Research.

Singh S.K., Raj A., Ajith K. & Foropon C. Forthcoming.A multi-stage method to determine organizational constraint structure and its application in a steel plant in India. Benchmarking: An International Journal.

Singh R., Sharma P., Foropon C. & Belal M. 2022. The role of Big Data and predictive analytics in the employee retention: A resource-based view. International Journal of Manpower, 43(2): 411-447.

Dubey R., Bryde D.J., Graham G., Foropon C., Kumari S. & Gupta O. Forthcoming. The role of alliance management, Big Data Analytics and information visibility on new-product development capability. Annals of Operations Research.

Introduction to Research
Building Theory through Case-study Research
Advanced Operations and Supply Chain Management
Principles of Operations and Supply Chain Management
Lean Management
Six Sigma
Theory of Constraints
Total Quality Management

FNEGE Media Videos:

Dubey, R., Gunasekaran, A., Childe, S., Bryde, D., Giannakis, M, Foropon, C., Roubaud, D., and Hazen, B., (2020), “Big data analytics and artificial intelligence pathway to operational performance under the moderating effect of entrepreneurial orientation: A study on manufacturing organisations”, International Journal of Production Economics (IJPE), Category 1 (CNRS-FNEGE rankings).
Video available here.

Larson, P.D., and Foropon, C., (2018), “Process Improvement in Humanitarian Operations: An Organizational Theory Perspective”, International Journal of Production Research (IJPR), Category 2i (FNEGE-CNRS rankings).
Video available here.