Are cumulatively developed capabilities better at enhancing corporate sustainability during high uncertainty?

Aseem Kinra is the professorial research fellow at the Institute of Shipping Economics and Maritime Logistics (ISL) in Germany, and from January 2025 serves as the appointed Professor for Systems Transition Engineering at Heriot-Watt University in Scotland. Prof. Kinra received his bachelor at the Delhi University followed by a master’s degree in business administration. He went on to accomplish a MSc in International Economics and Business Administration, followed by a Phd in Supply Chain Management and academic training at the Copenhagen Business School. He worked as an Assistant and later as an Associate professor at the Copenhagen Business School, where he also led the Graduate Diploma program in Supply Chain Management. In 2019 he was appointed as Professor for Global Supply Chain Management at the University of Bremen where he also led the International Graduate School (IGS) within Log Dynamics, the Bremen Research Cluster on Logistics. Prof. Kinra’s research spans global supply chain management with a focus on value, barriers and complexity in cross- border value chains, especially in relation to logistics and transportation systems. Moreover, he researches the applicability and adoption of various information and transportation technologies in this context, both within private and public-sector management. His work has been a recipient of numerous Emerald and Log Dynamics research awards, the prestigious Hedorf Foundation grants, and he has previously held a Mitsui fellowship within transportation and trade. His research has previously appeared in leading journals such as the International Journal of Production Economics, International Journal of Operations and Production Management, Journal of Business Logistics, Transport Policy and Journal of International Business Studies. He is the founding Associate Editor of the new Taylor & Francis Journal Sustainable Transport and Livability, Guest Editor for the International Journal of Production Economics, and serves on the editorial boards of International Journal of Operations and Production Management and Cyber Physical Systems. He is also the co-chair of the WCTRS Special Interest Group (SIG) B1 on Supply Chain Management and a founding member of SIG E1 on Transport Systems Analysis and Economic Evaluation.