12 June 2025 – AOM OSCM Panel: Doing Research on Sustainable Supply Chain Management in Challenging Times

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 …

12 June 2025 – NOFOMA 2025 conference presentation

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 …

12 April 2025 – Strategic Purchasing Summit in Istanbul

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 …

12 March 2025 – Hosting guest visitor Ceren Altuntaş Vural

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 …

10 February 2025 – JPSM Paper Development Workshop at Sabanci University

On February 10, 2025, Monday, we had the Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management Paper Development Workshop at Sabancı Business School, Sabanci University, in collaboration with IPSERA. With over 30 attendees, we enjoyed insightful sessions organized by JPSM Editors Carmela Di Mauro and Steven Carnovale, along with IPSERA President and Associate Editor Leonardo Marques. Carmela …

4 January 2025 – Guest Lecture by Gökşen Töre Sancak

As part of the PMBA Operations Management course at Sabancı Business School, we had the pleasure of hosting Gökşen Töre Sancak, Board Member at Farplas, for an insightful guest lecture. Drawing on over 25 years of experience in the automotive industry—including her most recent role as Executive Vice President of Material and Logistics at Ford …

29 November 2024 – Business Analytics Workshop at Sabanci University

Last Friday, as Sabancı Business School, we organized the 4th Business Analytics Workshop, bringing together around 400 participants, including industry leaders, global experts, and academics, to explore the latest developments in business analytics and AI applications. The event began with a keynote by Omer Barbaros Yis (Karaca International) titled “Human-Centered Transformation in the Age of …