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International Business & Supply Management

Management Team together with Assistant Professors and Urs Meier (former FIFA Referee)

International business represents special challenges for companies of all sizes. To address those challenges is the goal of the Chair for International Business & Supply Management. To that end, we focus not only on propriatary value creation of the businesses, but also on newly acquired steps of the value chain. Consequently, International Strategy & Purchasing constitute our key competencies.

Our current research focuses mainly around six topics

  • International Expansion Strategies
  • Emerging Market Firms
  • Strategic Innovation
  • Sustainability
  • Behavioral Supply Management
  • International Supply Management

News

14.05.2012

New article by Lutz Kaufmann, Sebastian Kreft, Matthias Ehrgott and Felix Reimann accepted for publication in the Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management

A current paper by Lutz Kaufmann, Sebastian Kreft, Matthias Ehrgott and Felix Reimann has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management (JPSM). JPSM ranks among the...

10.02.2012

Assistant Professor Dr. Matthias Ehrgott appointed member of the Editorial Review Board of the Journal of Operations Management

In January 2012, Dr. Matthias Ehrgott was appointed member of the Editorial Review Board of the Journal of Operations Management (JOM). JOM is the premier ranked journal for empirical research in the...

26.01.2012

New article: Managing supply chain sustainability

io management (January/February edition 2012) published an article by WHU-Professors Matthias Ehrgott, Felix Reimann, and Lutz Kaufmann that they have co-developed with Barbara Wichmann and Juliane...