Lauri
Ojala
Professor, Operations & Supply Chain Management
Areas of expertise
International logistics
maritime & port economics and supply chain management
Biography
Dr. Lauri Ojala is Professor of Logistics at the Turku School of Economics, University of Turku (FI) since 1997. Adjunct Professor of Logistics at Linköping University (SE) and at National Defence University (FI). CEO of logscale oy, a supply chain compliance consultancy.
He has worked as an expert e.g. for The World Bank, EC, ADB, OECD and UNECE, and for Ministries of Transport of several countries. Initiator of WB’s biennial Logistics Performance Index since 2007. He also heads the biennial Finnish Logistics Surveys, which comprise the largest national logistics survey database in the world.
Since 2006, Project Director of five EU-projects with a combined volume of 16+ M€, incl. Baltic Sea Region projects HAZARD on Seaport Safety & Security in 2016-2019 and OIL SPILL on combatting coastal oil spills in 2018-2021.
Publications
Revisiting the relationship between environmental and financial performance: The moderating role of ambidexterity in logistics (2022)
International Journal of Production Economics
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Resilience of transport infrastructure - a conceptual review (Presentation at the Transport Research Finland Conference 2022) (2022)
Transport Research Finland Conference
(Muu (O2))
Financial and economic performance of Finnish seaports – restructuring and pandemic impacts (Presentation at the IAME World Conference 2022) (2022)
IAME World Conference
(Muu (O2))
Revisiting the relationship between environmental and financial performance: The moderating role of ambidexterity in logistics (2022)
International Journal of Production Economics
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
The European Ship Recycling Regulation and its market implications: Ship-recycling capacity and market potential (2021)
Journal of Cleaner Production
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Tulevaisuuden yhteysalusliikenne: selvitys kehittämistarpeista (2021)
(Julkaistu kehittämis- tai tutkimusraportti taikka -selvitys (D4))Laivaliikenteen vähähiiliset polttoaineet ja niiden tuleva kehitys (2021)
(Julkaistu kehittämis- tai tutkimusraportti taikka -selvitys (D4))The World Bank's Logistics Performance Index (2021)
(Vertaisarvioitu artikkeli kokoomateoksessa (A3))Logistiikkaselvitys 2020 (2021)
(Julkaistu kehittämis- tai tutkimusraportti taikka -selvitys (D4))Drivers of logistics outsourcing: examining transaction costs, core competences and planned behavior (2021)
International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))