Monthly archives: September, 2025

Academy of Management, Operations and Supply Chain Management Division has organized a panel discussion today about “Doing research on sustainable supply chain management in challenging times“. I was pleased to be a panelist, together with Craig Carter, Davide Luzzini, Mark Pagell, and Veronica Villena. Around 75 participants attended the online panel. Thank you to Miriam Wilhelm …

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Seray Mirasçı, PhD student at Lappeenranta University of Technology, has presented our joint work (with Anni-Kaisa Kahkönen) at the NOFOMA 2025 conference in Copenhagen. In this research titled “Resilience in natural disaster risks: A dynamic capability view on the Türkiye earthquake”, we focus on the 2023 earthquakes in Türkiye and develop a classification of supply …

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Today, the 5th Strategic Purchasing Summit of Stratejik Satınalma Derneği (SSD) was held in Istanbul, Türkiye. Around 800 purchasing and supply chain management professionals in Türkiye have attended the event. The theme of the summit was “Strategic relationship management: Creating shared value”. In his opening speech, SSD President Ali Erkan Sökmen has emphasized the growing …

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This week, we were pleased to host Ceren Altuntaş Vural from Chalmers University of Technology at Sabanci Business School, Sabanci University. Ceren first gave a seminar in my Empirical Research Methods in Operations Management PhD course, discussing life after PhD and job prospects. Then, she gave a department seminar about their “CIRCLOG: Facilitating continuous resource …

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