Prof. Dr. Christoph Bode
Endowed Chair of Procurement
Credit: Rike Allendörfer, Universität Mannheim
Main fields of research
- Customer-Supplier-Relations
- Innovation in Inter-Company Networks
- Procurement and Distribution Management
- Risks and disruptions in the Value Chain
- Sustainability
- Strategies and performance
Curriculum vitae
| 2005 | Diplom-Wirtschaftsingenieur (M.Sc. in Business Engineering), University of Karlsruhe |
| 2008 | Dr. rer. pol., WHU-Otto Beisheim School of Management |
| 2008–2013 | Lecturer, Department of Management, Technology, and Economics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) |
| 2013–2014 | Assistant Professor (tenured), Department of Organization and Strategy, Tilburg University |
| 2014 | Habilitation, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) |
| Since 2014 | Professor of Procurement, University of Mannheim |
Selected memberships
- Academy of Management (AOM)
- Decision Sciences Institute (DSI)
- German Association for Supply Chain Management, Procurement and Logistics (BME)
- Member of the Scientific Advisory Council
- German Operations Research Society (GOR)
- International Purchasing & Supply Education & researh Association (IPSERA)
- Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
- Production and Operations Management Society (POMS)
Prizes, awards, honors
- Best Associate Editor: Journal of Supply Chain Management (2015)
- Best Reviewer: Journal of Operations Management (2012, 2013)
- Journal of Supply Chain Management (2011)
- Best Paper: DSI Annual Conference (2015)
- IPSERA Annual Conference (2014)
- European DSI Annual Conference (2011)
Selected editorial activities
- Associate Editor:
- Journal of Business Logistics
- Journal of Supply Chain Management
- Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management
- Editorial Board Member:
- Journal of Management Studies
- Journal of Operations Management
- Ad-hoc reviewer for about 15 ISI-ranked journal
Selected publications
- Burkhart, D. and Bode, C. (2024). On supplier resilience: How supplier performance, disruption frequency, and disruption duration are interrelated. Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management, 1–46.
- Spreitzenbarth, J., Bode, C. and Stuckenschmidt, H. (2024). Artificial intelligence and machine learning in purchasing and supply management: A mixed-methods review of the state-of-the-art in literature and practice. Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management, 30, 1–21.
- Bode, C., Burkhart, D., Schültken, R. and Vollmer, M. (2023). Future of procurement. In Global logistics and supply chain strategies for the 2020s : vital skills for the next generation (S. 261–276). Cham: Springer.
- Spreitzenbarth, J., Bode, C. and Stuckenschmidt, H. (2023). Designing an AI purchasing requisition bundling generator. Computers in Industry, 155, Article 104043, 1–14.
- Bode, C., Schültken, R., Burkhart, D. and Vollmer, M. (2022). Unternehmerische Orientierung als Booster für die Nachhaltigkeitsperformance. Best in Procurement : BIP, 13, 46–48.
- Spreitzenbarth, J., Stuckenschmidt, H. and Bode, C. (2022). The state of artificial intelligence: Procurement versus sales and marketing. In Supply management research: Aktuelle Forschungsergebniss 2022 (S. 173–193). Wiesbaden: Springer Gabler.
- Bode, C., Schültken, R. and Peter, M. (2021). Was Hochschulabsolventen wirklich wollen. Best in Procurement : BIP, 12, 44–47.
- Vollmer, M., Bode, C. and Burkhart, D. (2021). Die Einkaufsfunktion 2030: Wie Trends und disruptive Technologien die Zukunft des Einkaufs verändern. In Einkauf und Supply Chain Management (S. 37–58). Wiesbaden: Springer Gabler.