May 01, 2008
Clark U Professor Sarkis awarded AT&T Industrial Ecology Faculty Fellowship
Joseph Sarkis, Clark University Professor of Operations and Environmental Management, Graduate School of Management, was named an AT&T Faculty Fellow in Industrial Ecology, one of three to be named among U.S. college faculty. His fellowship is in cooperation with colleagues at Oregon State University and Green Mountain College. The Fellowship will allow his interdisciplinary team to study information and communications technology product streams and gaining business value within China's "Circular Economy" regulatory policy framework.
Professor Sarkis and his team also receive $25,000 toward research in Industrial Ecology, a multidisciplinary field that studies industrial and economic systems and in relation to natural systems. IE incorporates, among other things, research involving energy, materials, technology and technological systems, information generation, management, and transmission, and services. It involves disciplines such as law, economics, anthropology, business studies, engineering, and the social and physical sciences.
Professor Sarkis came to Clark in 1996. His teaching and research include operations management, logistics, supply chain management, corporate environmental management, management of technology, international management and information systems and technology, and also some entrepreneurship. He has published more than 200 publications, including "Green Supply Chain Management: Pressures, Practices and Performance within the Chinese Automobile Industry," Journal of Cleaner Production (2007). He recently edited books titled "Greening the Supply Chain," Springer (2006) and "Strategic Sustainability," Greenleaf Publishing (2007), featuring insights on environment supply chain management theory and practice for industry practitioners and policy makers.
Professor Sarkis resides in North Grafton, MA. He earned his Ph.D. in Management Science from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He was also an assistant and associate professor in the School of Business at the University of Texas at Arlington.