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Public and healthcare organizations play a vital role in addressing grand challenges, including environmental degradation, growing resource scarcity, rising inequality, and the covid-19 pandemic. For this, they rely significantly on suppliers. Buying organizations need dynamic, innovative, and competitive factor (supplier) markets. However they often have to contend with concentrated markets associated with reducing efficiency, unfair trading practices, and stifled innovation.
In coping with such market conditions, effective supply systems cannot depend only on regulators’ policies and vendors’ competitive strategies. Effective purchasing behaviours are also crucial. In the longer term, organizations need to be able to influence supply market dynamics in favor of innovation, sustainability, resilience, and market diversity and competitiveness. This capability is ‘market stewardship’ – a new field of research in procurement!
We are recruiting a highly motivated PhD candidate to take forward this novel area of research, following a design science approach. Working with a multidisciplinary team with procurement, competition law, and system dynamics, the project will include:
The UT provides a dynamic and international environment, combining the benefits of academic research with a topic of high relevance to public and health administration, excellent working conditions, a stimulating scientific environment, and a green and friendly campus. We offer:
The HBE cluster is a growing research group that holds a leading position at the interfaces of business, technology and the social sciences. We conduct cross-disciplinary business research, supporting organizations in innovative and entrepreneurial management and decision-making.
At HBE, we seek to provide an encouraging and inclusive working culture. Our aim is that all job applicants are given equal opportunities; we select candidates based on their aptitude and ability. To promote workforce diversity, we are open to offering flexible working conditions on an individual basis to support work-life balance, which may include adjusting contract of employment, working hours and location, or child care arrangements.
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