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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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It was nice to catch up with many old friends and meet new ones at the IPSERA 2025 conference, in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. First, I attended the Doctoral Workshop organized by Robert Suurmond as faculty member. It was exciting to hear about so many interesting new PhD projects! Then, Davide Luzzini presented our research with …

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We are glad to learn that our article with Davide Luzzini on supply network complexity (SNC) is one of the top cited articles in Journal of Business Logistics. Our integrative review encompasses the following key aspects: (i) defining (sub)dimensions of SNC, (ii) elaborating on the direct and contingent effects of SNC by highlighting underlying mechanisms …

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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 …

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I’m thrilled to have been appointed as an Associate Editor for International Journal of Operations and Production Management. Thank you to the Editors Jens Roehrich, Martin Schleper and Hugo Lam for trusting that I can fulfill this role and I look forward to further contributing to our journal!

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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 …

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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 …

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