Posts and Publications

The Reimagining Supply Chains Initiative has been investigating the coffee supply chain with the purpose of examining the political nature of supply chain management (SCM).  Based on 30 interviews with actors from within and around the coffee supply chain, we have examined the mechanisms underlying the political nature of SCM in the coffee industry.

As a part of the Reimagining Supply Chains Initiative, I am currently working on an article together with Katinka Bjørndal Thomsen, Andreas Wieland and Philip Beske-Janssen concerning the political aspects of supply chain management (SCM). In the article, we seek to bridge political theory and SCM in a way that benefits not just researchers but also the managers of complex supply chains.

Recently, we held a webinar with Nathalie Fabbe-Costes. What she and her co-authors explored in an article, titled The Map Is Not the Territory, is really exciting and innovative: 18 supply chain managers from an automotive company were asked to map the supply chain of this company.

Three new articles, published by two members of the Reimagining Supply Chains Initiative and one collaborator, reinterpret a supply chain as a social-ecological system. This leads to a new interpretation of how to deal with supply chains: Not managing them, but dancing them.

The topic of the circular economy is receiving increasing attention. Companies starting the transition process from linear to circular will need qualified personnel. Universities should prepare their students now. But how can this be done?