Sini Laari
sini.laari@utu.fi +358 29 450 2410 +358 50 438 8309 Rehtorinpellonkatu 3 Turku |
Supply chain management; Sustainability; Corporate social responsibility; Circular economy; Surveys
Dr. Sini Laari is a university teacher in Operations & Supply Chain Management. Her main field of research is sustainability in supply chains. Her research primarily draws from statistical research methods. She teaches supply chain management and sustainability and supervises theses at all levels.
Sini defended her award-winning doctoral thesis on the connection between firm performance and green supply chain management in University of Turku in 2016. After that, she worked 6 months at the Finnish Defence Research Agency before returning to University of Turku as a postdoctoral researcher.
She has published articles in International Journal of Production and Operations Management, Journal of Cleaner Production, Business Strategy and the Environment, and Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management, for example, and acts as a reviewer for several journals.
In her freetime Sini enjoys playing floorball and spending time outdoors.
- Sustainable supply chain management
- Green logistics
- Circular economy
- Firm performance
- Supply chain trends
- Survey research
- LOG1 Supply Chain Management
- Business games (Beer Game, Lean Game)
- MJO4 Ethical issues is business
- Supervision of Bachelor's, Master's and Doctoral theses
- Logistiikkaselvitys 2025 (2026) Solakivi, Tomi; Ojala, Lauri; Laari, Sini; Töyli, Juuso; Niinistö, Sohvi
- The dual role of supply base knowledge in organizational integration and competitive performance (2025)
- Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management
- Evaluating firm resilience through responsiveness and logistics outsourcing in the COVID-19 era (2024)
- Supply Chain Management
- Profiling users of shared e-scooters : Implications for environmental and social sustainability
(Presentation at the 36th Nordic Logistics and Supply Chain Management Conference (NOFOMA) 2024) (2024) Rauhala, Veera; Laari, Sini; Töyli, Juuso; Solakivi, Tomi - Business management perspectives on the circular economy: Present state and future directions (2023)
- Technological Forecasting and Social Change
- Guest editorial: NOFOMA 2021 conference special issue (2023)
- International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management
- International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management: NOFOMA 2021 conference special issue (2023)
- International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management
- Logistiikkaselvitys 2023 (2023) Solakivi Tomi, Ojala Lauri, Laari Sini, Töyli Juuso, Toivonen Noora, Metsäaho Veeti
- Procurement's role in resolving demand – supply imbalances: an information processing theory perspective (2023)
- International Journal of Operations and Production Management
- Changes needed and challenges to solve to reach systemic change to circular economy in textile industry (Conference abstract in the 9th International EurOMA Sustainable Operations and Supply Chain Forum 2022) (2022) 9th International EurOMA Sustainable Operations and Supply Chain Forum: Proceedings, Zagreb, Croatia, 22nd to 23rd March, 2022 Bask Anu, Laari Sini, Kuosmanen Susanna



