Lincoln Wood is a Professor in the Department of Management at the Otago Business School, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. He holds a PhD, MCom (First Class Honours), BCom (Honours), and BSc from the University of Auckland. His research sits at the nexus of supply chain resilience, healthcare operations, sustainability, and digital transformation, with a particular strength in bridging rigorous quantitative methods with management theory for real-world impact.
He serves as Associate Editor for the Journal of Supply Chain Management (JIF: 10.6), Associate Editor of Global Business Review, Editor of the International Journal of Applied Logistics, and co-Editor of the International Journal of Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development. He previously served as Associate Editor for the Journal of Cleaner Production (handling 220 manuscripts to completion). He was ranked in the global top 1% of reviewers (Publons) and received the "Best Reviewer" award from JSCM in 2019.
Previously Associate Dean for Postgraduate Programmes (2019 to 2021), Lincoln spearheaded the launch of two online master's programmes (the MSusBus and MBusDataSci) and led the partnership with NYU's Stern School of Business for their "Doing Business in New Zealand" programme. He is a Chartered Member of CILT, holds the leading rank in New Zealand's national research evaluation, and is a recipient of the CSCMP Young Researcher Award (2009).
His career spans appointments at the University of Auckland, AUT, Curtin University (Australia), and a Visiting Professorship at Ramkhamhaeng University (Thailand), with active international collaborations across the UK, China, Australia, India, and Southeast Asia.
