May 15, 2014
Mohammad Moshtari has received the runner-up award for best paper at the Conference of the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS), College of Humanitarian Operations & Crisis Management (HOCM), held in Atlanta this May. In his paper, entitled “Factors Influencing the Horizontal Collaboration Among Humanitarian Organizations: An Empirical Analysis,” he proposes and tests the elements influencing the horizontal collaboration among international humanitarian NGOs, providing a systematic view of the drivers and impediments to collaboration. Mohammad completed his PhD at the Università della Svizzera italiana under the direction of Prof. Paulo Gonçalves. He is now a postdoctoral researcher at the Hanken School of Economics in Finland, investigating the relationships between international humanitarian actors and local NGOs. His project is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. Mohammad is pictured here with Jon Stauffer and Alfonso Pedraza-Martinez, winners of the best paper award for their work “Global Vehicle Supply Chain Management in Humanitarian Operations.”
