Dayna is a Professor of Responsible Operations and Supply Chain Management. She conducts research mainly with business around issues of responsible procurement, on issues such as supply chain-scale labor governance, waste reduction, and supplier diversity. She also explores gender issues in operations management and in supply chains. Current projects include:

Corporate responses to modern slavery risk;

Supplier diversity, equity, inclusion programs in supply chains;

Consumer product returns and waste reduction;

Gendered work design, service delivery and performance measurement in operations and its implications.

If your organization would like to participate in one of these projects, please contact dayna.simpson@monash.edu. I also supervise PhD projects which may be of interest to organisations:

Navid Zarbakhshnia (expected completion 2025): Product return reduction in online retailing. Co-supervisor Xin Ma.

George Panas (completed): consumers' construal of potential food waste in online grocery purchases. Co-supervisor Harmen Oppewal.

Raveen Menon (completed): strategic fit between firms' service capabilities and their supply chain capabilities, to increase service performance. Co-supervisor TT Niranjan (IITB).