Rudrajeet Pal
Docent Professor
Faculty of Textiles, Engineering and Business (including The Swedish School of Textiles)
— Department of Business Administration and Textile Management
I work as Professor in Textile Value Chain within the field of Textile Management, where I use theoretical and conceptual lens from operations & supply chain management and business models for understanding industrial resilience and sustainability challenges in textile, clothing and fashion value chains, and how these impact environment and society at large, and devise strategic solutions. My research includes an eclectic mix of topics that contribute to industrial sustainability, such as resilient enterprises, reverse, circular and cascading supply chains and business models, consumer-driven small-series production, and traceability.
Industrial resilience and sustainability in textile and clothing value chains
My research profile can be summarized through the broad questions where I seek answer:
- How are supply chains and embedded business models organized to influence competitiveness and value generation? What and how current practices hinder this?
- What is value in context to such organization of supply chain operations and business models?
- How and when can performance be improved through changes in current structures?
My studies on these topics have been published in several leading journals in the areas of supply chain management, production research, business models, and textile and fashion. Currently, I serve as the Associate Editor of Journal of Fashion Marketing and Management and have previously been the Editor-in-Chief for Textile Institute Book Series for Elsevier.
I actively participate as PI and co-PI in nationally- and internationally- funded research and innovation projects. I have secured financing of more than 3 million Euros from European Commission (H2020, Erasmus+, ERDF), Swedish Innovation Agency (Vinnova), Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development (Formas), among others. Previously I had co-coordinated an Erasmus Mundus PhD Program (EMJD) on Sustainable Management and Textile Design (SMDTex) funded by the European Commission between 2013 and 2021. I also engage regularly in development and consultancy projects in the areas of circularity and traceability, such as for International Financial Corporation (World Bank), United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (UK), International Trade Center (ITC), International Labour Organization (ILO).
Currently, I also act as visiting professor in Industrial Engineering and Management at University of Gävle (Sweden) and as a research fellow in circular business models at Turku University of Applied Sciences (Finland).
I have a Doctor of Technology in Engineering Sciences from Tampere University of Technology (Finland) and have been working at the University of Borås since 2009. I have also worked in both textile and IT sectors.
I have previously supervised the following doctoral students and postdocs to successful completion:
- Kumar Paras, Manoj (2018)
- Ma, Ke (2018)
- Agrawal, Tarun Kumar (2019)
- Harper, Sara (2022)
- Dissanayake, Kanchana (post doc) (2023)
- Hultberg, Emelie (2024)
Principal Supervisor for the following doctoral students
Emelie Hultberg
Doctoral Student
033-435 4347
Golzar Daneshzad
Doctoral Student
033-435 4817
Sidharath Joshi
Postdoctor
033-43541 9010
Researcher's publications in DiVA (Digitala Vetenskapliga Arkivet)
Doctoral thesis title
Organizational Resilience through Crisis Strategic Planning.
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2024-11-13
The UN organisation International Trade Centre (ITC) has planned a visit, accompanied by 35 delegates from six countries, to Borås and Sweden. The purpose of the visit is to gain ins...
2024-03-06
Currently, it is estimated that only one percent of world’s textile waste is recycled into new textiles. Now these conditions can be improved, thanks to a new research project coordin...
2023-10-16
Several of the university's researchers have once again been included in a prestigious international ranking of the most cited researchers in the world. This list was drawn up by researchers at Stanford ...
2023-09-13
When countries neighboring the EU prepare to become trading partners, the Swedish School of Textiles, University of Borås, is a support in the process. Rudrajeet Pal...
2023-02-03
The growing mountain of clothing waste must be dealt with – and urgently. Researchers, policy makers, businesses and industry, and society are now coming together to solve the chal...
2022-03-17
What would you do if your manager values the rigidity of the instruction manual over innovation? Maybe you’d just grin and bear it, or maybe you'd move 4500 miles away and become a professor? For Rudrajeet Pal, the ...
2021-12-17
With a number of national and international projects in textile management, and recognised as an expert by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe and the World Ban...
2021-11-15
A growing number of manufacturers are adopting innovative approaches towards circularity and sustainability in personal protective equipment (PPE) manufacturing. This ha...