Santosh Mahapatra is Associate Professor of Operations and Information Systems at Clarkson University, New York. His research and teaching activities concern Sourcing Strategy and E-Procurement; Capabilities, Practices and Performance Relationship; Manufacturing and Supply Chain Flexibility; Advanced Manufacturing Practices and Environment Management; Re-manufacturing and Reverse Logistics; and Utility Theory and Multi-Criteria Decision Models. He received his PhD in Business Administration at Michigan State University. At Clarkson he teaches courses in Quality Management and Lean Enterprise as well as Supply Chain Environmental Management.