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Organizational resilience
(2020)
Typical terms in organizational resilience definitions are maintenance of positive adjustment or bouncing back. They are very vague and need further specification if they are to be understood. At the beginning of my dissertation in 2016 there were hardly any comprehensive conceptual articles and review papers. Now, in 2020, there are some good conceptual articles (Darkow, 2019; Duchek, 2019; Linnenluecke, 2017; Williams et al., 2017) yet few empirical studies (van der Vegt, Essens, Wahlstrom, & Georg, 2015), which ...
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Stakeholder management in sustainable supply chains
(2022-03)
This dissertation examines stakeholder management in the context of sustainable supply chain management. Since ecological deterioration and social discrepancy keep increasing, sustainability is considered one of the most significant challenges in our current time. Due to the growing public awareness of the environmental and social sustainability issues, multiple stakeholders drive the need to implement sustainability into SCs and hold the focal firms responsible for the actions of the entire SC. Stakeholder management ...
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The Implications of Feedback Frequency for Employee Creativity
(2022)
Managers are still floundering when they have to decide on the optimal level of feedback frequency; either when they consider themselves as a source of feedback, but also when they shape the feedback environment of their employees, e.g., by allowing more (or less) frequent customer feedback. Furthermore, given that feedback is a time-consuming task, managers might be reluctant to provide feedback frequently, foregoing a potentially powerful lever for increasing employee creativity. Ultimately, clarifying the ambiguities ...
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Managing Risk, Performance and Sustainability in Textile & Apparel Supply Chains
(2023)
The thesis at hand analyzes sustainability prerequisites, practices, risk and performance in textile and apparel (T&A) supply chains (SCs). Given the growing awareness of sustainability risks by various stakeholders, T&A firms are required to implement and adapt sustainability practices along their SCs, while at the same time measuring their performance to counteract the (re)emergence of risks. Appropriate management strategies are therefore needed to ensure sustainable transformation in T&A SCs. While the state of ...