Tava Lennon Olsen

3.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
77 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Tava Lennon Olsen is a scholar working on Management Information Systems, Strategy and Management and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Tava Lennon Olsen has authored 77 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Management Information Systems, 18 papers in Strategy and Management and 15 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. Recurrent topics in Tava Lennon Olsen's work include Supply Chain and Inventory Management (31 papers), Advanced Queuing Theory Analysis (26 papers) and Sustainable Supply Chain Management (14 papers). Tava Lennon Olsen is often cited by papers focused on Supply Chain and Inventory Management (31 papers), Advanced Queuing Theory Analysis (26 papers) and Sustainable Supply Chain Management (14 papers). Tava Lennon Olsen collaborates with scholars based in New Zealand, United States and China. Tava Lennon Olsen's co-authors include Brian Tomlin, Golnar Behzadi, Michael O’Sullivan, Abraham Zhang, Rodney P. Parker, Jennifer L. Wiler, Richard T. Griffey, Valery Pavlov, Michael J. Fry and Elena Katok and has published in prestigious journals such as Management Science, Journal of Cleaner Production and Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Tava Lennon Olsen

76 papers receiving 2.6k 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.

Industry 4.0: Opportunities and Challenges for Operations Management

2019 429 citations Tava Lennon Olsen, Brian Tomlin Manufacturing & Service Operations Management profile →
Agribusiness supply chain risk management: A review of quantitative decision models

2017 292 citations Golnar Behzadi, Michael O’Sullivan et al. Omega profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Tava Lennon Olsen New Zealand	26	1.4k	1.1k	646	280	258	77	2.7k
Seyed M. R. Iravani United States	26	1.2k 0.9×	719 0.7×	551 0.9×	216 0.8×	220 0.9×	70	2.3k
Nezih Altay United States	26	1.6k 1.1×	2.1k 2.0×	594 0.9×	261 0.9×	138 0.5×	59	4.3k
S. Afshin Mansouri United Kingdom	30	898 0.7×	1.5k 1.4×	1.2k 1.9×	149 0.5×	426 1.7×	50	4.3k
Behrooz Karimi Iran	40	1.3k 1.0×	1.3k 1.2×	2.1k 3.3×	107 0.4×	145 0.6×	142	4.4k
Pankaj Dutta India	28	1.1k 0.8×	1.5k 1.4×	336 0.5×	230 0.8×	317 1.2×	67	3.0k
Gerald Reiner Austria	24	736 0.5×	999 0.9×	594 0.9×	132 0.5×	260 1.0×	66	2.2k
Saif Benjaafar United States	28	1.7k 1.3×	1.8k 1.7×	985 1.5×	356 1.3×	992 3.8×	87	4.3k
Armin Jabbarzadeh Iran	33	1.5k 1.1×	2.3k 2.1×	645 1.0×	166 0.6×	123 0.5×	106	3.9k
Masoud Rabbani Iran	39	1.5k 1.1×	1.9k 1.8×	2.5k 3.9×	135 0.5×	286 1.1×	302	5.7k
Peiman Ghasemi Iran	27	517 0.4×	908 0.8×	411 0.6×	205 0.7×	91 0.4×	83	2.2k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Olsen, Tava Lennon, et al.. (2025). Green premiums or economic pitfalls? Unraveling the profitability puzzle of credence attributes in agricultural supply chains. International Journal of Production Economics. 289. 109718–109718.

Olsen, Tava Lennon, et al.. (2022). Food supply chain waste reduction for a circular economy in the COVID-19 pandemic: a longitudinal study of New Zealand consumers. The International Journal of Logistics Management. 34(3). 800–817. 11 indexed citations

Olsen, Tava Lennon, et al.. (2022). Reducing food loss and waste in supply chain operations. Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review. 162. 102730–102730. 59 indexed citations

Zhou, Quan & Tava Lennon Olsen. (2022). Modeling the effects of dated medical supplies donation on recipient countries. Production and Operations Management. 32(1). 116–130. 4 indexed citations

Arthanari, Tiru, et al.. (2022). Impact of number of shipping lines on ports' charges and profits: A game‐theoretic model. Naval Research Logistics (NRL). 70(2). 131–144. 2 indexed citations

Olsen, Tava Lennon, et al.. (2022). An updated review on blood supply chain quantitative models: A disaster perspective. Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review. 158. 102583–102583. 35 indexed citations

Olsen, Tava Lennon, et al.. (2021). A Conceptual Framework to Analyze Food Loss and Waste within Food Supply Chains: An Operations Management Perspective. Sustainability. 13(2). 927–927. 42 indexed citations

Olsen, Tava Lennon & Brian Tomlin. (2019). Industry 4.0: Opportunities and Challenges for Operations Management. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. 22(1). 113–122. 429 indexed citations breakdown →

Bolandifar, Ehsan, Nicole DeHoratius, Tava Lennon Olsen, & Jennifer L. Wiler. (2019). An empirical study of the behavior of patients who leave the emergency department without being seen. Journal of Operations Management. 65(5). 430–446. 13 indexed citations

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Behzadi, Golnar, Michael O’Sullivan, Tava Lennon Olsen, & Abraham Zhang. (2017). Agribusiness supply chain risk management: A review of quantitative decision models. Omega. 79. 21–42. 292 indexed citations breakdown →

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Olsen, Tava Lennon & Rodney P. Parker. (2014). On Markov Equilibria in Dynamic Inventory Competition. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

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Ata, Barış, et al.. (2012). On Hospice Operations Under Medicare Reimbursement Policies. Management Science. 59(5). 1027–1044. 37 indexed citations

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Islam, Samsul, et al.. (2011). Factors affecting seaport capacity. Chan, F., Marinova, D. and Anderssen, R.S. (eds) MODSIM2011, 19th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation.. 5 indexed citations

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Wiler, Jennifer L., Richard T. Griffey, & Tava Lennon Olsen. (2011). Review of Modeling Approaches for Emergency Department Patient Flow and Crowding Research. Academic Emergency Medicine. 18(12). 1371–1379. 116 indexed citations

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Olsen, Tava Lennon & Rodney P. Parker. (2008). Inventory Management Under Market Size Dynamics. SSRN Electronic Journal. 3 indexed citations

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Milner, Joseph & Tava Lennon Olsen. (2008). Service-Level Agreements in Call Centers: Perils and Prescriptions. Management Science. 54(2). 238–252. 48 indexed citations

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Olsen, Tava Lennon & Rodney P. Parker. (2008). Inventory Management Under Market Size Dynamics. Management Science. 54(10). 1805–1821. 59 indexed citations

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Olsen, Tava Lennon, et al.. (2003). Inventory control with overtime and premium freight. 1 indexed citations

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Iravani, Seyed M. R., Izak Duenyas, & Tava Lennon Olsen. (2000). A Production/Inventory System Subject to Failure with Limited Repair Capacity. Operations Research. 48(6). 951–964. 10 indexed citations

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Chbat, M.W., A. Jourdan, M. Sotom, et al.. (1997). Pan-European optical networking using wavelength division multiplexing. IEEE Communications Magazine. 35(4). 82–88. 20 indexed citations

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