Atalay Atasu Editor

Atalay Atasu, PhD (INSEAD, 2007), is associate professor of operations management at Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business. His research expertise is on sustainable operations management, with focus on product recovery economics and extended producer responsibility, on which he has published extensively. His research appeared in Management Science, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, Journal of Industrial Ecology, and California Management Review. He is recipient of a number of research awards, including the Wickham Skinner Best Paper Award (winner 2007, runner up 2014), Wickham Skinner Early Career Research Award (2012), and Paul Kleindorfer Award in Sustainability (2013). His research originating from extensive collaborations with a number of Electronics Manufacturers in Europe, in the context of extended producer responsibility, has been particularly influential in the European WEEE Directive implementations.