Associate Professor of Management

Year Joined RCNJ: 2001

Contact Information

• Phone: (201) 684-7096
• Email: trakotob@ramapo.edu
• Office: ASB-504
• Office Hours: Mon & Thurs 2-3:30 PM

Education:

• B.S., College Saint Michael, Antananarivo, Madagascar
• M.S., University of Antanarivo, Madagascar
• Ph.D., University of Cincinnati

Courses Offered:

• Readings and Research in Management
• Strategic Management

Teaching Interest:

• Operations Management
• Operations Research
• Strategic Management

Research Interest:

• Supply Chain Management
• Stochastic Network Modeling
• Operations Strategy
• Social Network Analysis

Recent Publications:

• Rakotobe-Joel, T. & Torres-Baumgarten, G. Sustainability discourse in emerging market multinationals: The case of South Africa’s largest firms Journal of African Business 24(2) 2023
• Magnaye, R. Sohail, C. Suser, B. & Rakotobe-Joel, T. An Enhanced Analog Nearest Neighbour Algorithm for Route Planning After a Major Disaster Int. J. of Operations and Quantitative Management 26(4) 2020
• Abzug, R., Rakotobe-Joel, T., & Woodley, J. (2019). Who Supports PRME Implementation? An Analysis of Influences on Individual Faculty Commitment to PRME. Journal of Higher Education Theory and Practice, 19(8). https://doi.org/10.33423/jhetp.v19i8.2676