Stella Despoudi

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
20 papers, 856 citations indexed

About

Stella Despoudi is a scholar working on Strategy and Management, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and Marketing. According to data from OpenAlex, Stella Despoudi has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 856 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Strategy and Management, 6 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and 5 papers in Marketing. Recurrent topics in Stella Despoudi's work include Sustainable Supply Chain Management (5 papers), Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability (5 papers) and Environmental Sustainability in Business (5 papers). Stella Despoudi is often cited by papers focused on Sustainable Supply Chain Management (5 papers), Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability (5 papers) and Environmental Sustainability in Business (5 papers). Stella Despoudi collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Greece and France. Stella Despoudi's co-authors include Konstantina Spanaki, Uthayasankar Sivarajah, Erisa Karafili, Oscar Rodríguez-Espíndola, Zahir Irani, Pável Albores, Ana Cuevas-Romo, Prasanta Kumar Dey, Soumyadeb Chowdhury and Chrisovalantis Malesios and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Business Research, International Journal of Production Economics and International Journal of Production Research.

In The Last Decade

Stella Despoudi

19 papers receiving 825 citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

The role of circular economy principles and sustainable-oriented innovation to enhance social, economic and environmental performance: Evidence from Mexican SMEs

2022 257 citations Oscar Rodríguez-Espíndola, Ana Cuevas-Romo et al. International Journal of Production Economics profile →

Peers

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Dilupa Nakandala Australia

Kirti Nayal India

Tim Gruchmann Germany

Stefano Abbate Italy

Alessandro Ruggieri Italy

Akshit Singh United Kingdom

Mürüvvet Deniz Sezer Türkiye

Aristides Matopoulos United Kingdom

Marcelo Werneck Barbosa Brazil

Dilupa Nakandala Australia

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140 ×0.7

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274 ×1.9

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Countries citing papers authored by Stella Despoudi

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Fields of papers citing papers by Stella Despoudi

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stella Despoudi

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Stella Despoudi. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Stella Despoudi based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Stella Despoudi. Stella Despoudi is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Despoudi, Stella, et al.. (2025). Consumers'Attitudes and Behaviors Toward Circular Food Supply Chain Practices and Sustainable Food Purchase Intention: Evidence from China. Circular Economy and Sustainability. 5(5). 4469–4486. 1 indexed citations

Despoudi, Stella, et al.. (2023). Industry 4.0 and circular economy for emerging markets: evidence from small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the Indian food sector. Annals of Operations Research. 350(2). 453–491. 25 indexed citations

Rodríguez-Espíndola, Oscar, Ana Cuevas-Romo, Soumyadeb Chowdhury, et al.. (2022). The role of circular economy principles and sustainable-oriented innovation to enhance social, economic and environmental performance: Evidence from Mexican SMEs. International Journal of Production Economics. 248. 108495–108495. 257 indexed citations breakdown →

Kamal, Muhammad Mustafa, Sachin Kumar Mangla, Patanjal Kumar, et al.. (2022). Immediate return in circular economy: Business to consumer product return information sharing framework to support sustainable manufacturing in small and medium enterprises. Journal of Business Research. 151. 379–396. 37 indexed citations

Vlachos, Ilias, et al.. (2022). Smart and flexible manufacturing systems using Autonomous Guided Vehicles (AGVs) and the Internet of Things (IoT). International Journal of Production Research. 62(15). 5574–5595. 32 indexed citations

Spanaki, Konstantina, Erisa Karafili, Uthayasankar Sivarajah, Stella Despoudi, & Zahir Irani. (2021). Artificial intelligence and food security: swarm intelligence of AgriTech drones for smart AgriFood operations. Production Planning & Control. 33(16). 1498–1516. 90 indexed citations

Rodríguez-Espíndola, Oscar, Stella Despoudi, Pável Albores, & Uthayasankar Sivarajah. (2021). Achieving agility in evacuation operations: an evidence-based framework. Production Planning & Control. 33(6-7). 558–575. 8 indexed citations

Dennehy, Denis, et al.. (2021). Supply chain resilience in mindful humanitarian aid organizations: the role of big data analytics. International Journal of Operations & Production Management. 41(9). 1417–1441. 74 indexed citations

Spanaki, Konstantina, Uthayasankar Sivarajah, Masoud Fakhimi, Stella Despoudi, & Zahir Irani. (2021). Disruptive technologies in agricultural operations: a systematic review of AI-driven AgriTech research. Annals of Operations Research. 308(1-2). 491–524. 90 indexed citations

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Despoudi, Stella, et al.. (2021). A planetary boundaries perspective on the sustainability: resilience relationship in the Kenyan tea supply chain. Annals of Operations Research. 319(1). 661–695. 24 indexed citations

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Spanaki, Konstantina, et al.. (2021). Data analytics diffusion in the UK renewable energy sector: an innovation perspective. Annals of Operations Research. 333(2-3). 717–742. 10 indexed citations

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Despoudi, Stella, Manoj Dora, & Uthayasankar Sivarajah. (2021). From Linear to Circular Food Supply Chains: Achieving Sustainable Change. Research Repository (Kingston University London).

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Spanaki, Konstantina, Erisa Karafili, & Stella Despoudi. (2021). AI applications of data sharing in agriculture 4.0: A framework for role-based data access control. International Journal of Information Management. 59. 102350–102350. 74 indexed citations

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Despoudi, Stella, Uthayasankar Sivarajah, & Manoj Dora. (2021). From Linear to Circular Food Supply Chains. 3 indexed citations

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Despoudi, Stella, Grammatoula Papaioannou, & Samir Dani. (2020). Producers responding to environmental turbulence in the Greek agricultural supply chain: does buyer type matter?. Production Planning & Control. 32(14). 1223–1236. 17 indexed citations

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Papaioannou, Grammatoula, et al.. (2020). The role of adverse economic environment and human capital on collaboration within agri-food supply chains. International Journal of Information Management. 52. 102077–102077. 25 indexed citations

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Spanaki, Konstantina, Erisa Karafili, & Stella Despoudi. (2020). Data Sharing in Agriculture 4.0: Applications of AI for Access Control Decisions. Spiral (Imperial College London). 2 indexed citations

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Lee, Habin, et al.. (2018). Idiosyncratic risk and the cross-section of stock returns: the role of mean-reverting idiosyncratic volatility. Annals of Operations Research. 294(1-2). 419–452. 19 indexed citations

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Despoudi, Stella, Grammatoula Papaioannou, George Saridakis, & Samir Dani. (2018). Does collaboration pay in agricultural supply chain? An empirical approach. International Journal of Production Research. 56(13). 4396–4417. 55 indexed citations

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Mallidis, Ioannis, Stella Despoudi, Rommert Dekker, Eleftherios Iakovou, & Dimitrios Vlachos. (2018). The impact of sulphur limit fuel regulations on maritime supply chain network design. Annals of Operations Research. 294(1-2). 677–695. 13 indexed citations

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