Dayna is a Professor of Responsible Operations and Supply Chain Management. She conducts research with business and government on topics of sustainability and responsibility, through operations. This work seeks to identify operational practices or investments that improve efficiency, and maintain business profit, but also ensure responsibility for workers, customers, and the environment. She has worked with companies within operations and purchasing functions to achieve these goals, on topics of supplier diversity, gig worker management, supply chain-scale labor, product return processes, CSR reporting, and modern slavery risk.

Current projects:

Modern slavery

Identifying, managing and predicting risks of labor exploitation in supply chains; artificial intelligence use to identify and manage modern slavery risk; manager understanding of modern slavery risk.

Gig economy and supply chains

How gig-workers operate within supply chains; Recipient of an ARC-Discovery grant (2025-2027) to explore gig economy working, safety and opportunity.   

Supplier diversity

Addressing lack of diversity issues in the supplier base and whether limited supplier diversity creates risks, weakens innovation, and reduces access to new ideas; how firms can improve purchasing criteria to enable recruitment of a more diverse supply base.

If your organization would like to participate in one of these projects, please contact [email protected].