Gerald Reiner

Dr. Gerald Reiner holds a Magister Degree, a doctorate degree and Habilitation in Business Administration from the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU). Between 2007 and 2014 he was full professor in Production Management and Logistics at the University of Neuchatel (Switzerland). Between 2014 and 2018 he was full professor in Production Management and Logistics and head of the department of Operations, Energy, and ‘Environmental Management at Universitaet Klagenfurt (Austria). Furthermore, he was visiting professor at the Aston Business School (UK), HEC Lausanne (Switzerland), University of Bergamo and Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan (Italy). In 2018 he joined WU as full professor in Operations Management at the institute of Production Management at WU. Since 2008 he was coordinator, member of the steering board, and project partner in international research projects such as EU-project “Keeping Jobs in EU” and EU/Ecsel-project “Power Semiconductor and Electronics Manufacturing 4.0”.

Research Interests

• Industry 4.0
• Integrated capacity and inventory management
• Integrated supply and demand management
• Lead-time reduction
• Instore operations for perishable products
• Humanitarian logistics operations (i.e., disaster capability management, capacity management and purchasing)
• Operations management for base of the pyramid
• Circular supply chains.

Awards and Honors

• 2017 Highly Commended paper in the 2017 Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence
• 2014 ISIR Service Award
• 2013 Emerald Outstanding Paper Award
• 2005 Festo Fellow Award - WU: „Internationalisierungsprozesse und länderübergreifende Supply Chain Prozesse in der zentraleuropäischen, produzierenden Industrie“
• 2001 Dissertation Award - scientific series publication „Forschungsergebnisse der Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien“

Book (monograph)

• 2002 Reiner, G. 2002. Ökonomische Bewertung des Qualitätsmanagement unter Berücksichtigung der Kundenzufriedenheit. Schriftenreihe Forschungsergebnisse der Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien (herausgegeben von Edgar Topritzhofer), Service Fachverlag, Wien