Management School Faculty

Prof Blome is Academic Dean / Rektor of Lancaster University Leipzig since September 2022. He is also Co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Operations & Production Management. Prof Blome’s research interests include supply chain management, procurement and operations management with strong focus on sustainability, innovation and risk issues. In 2020 and 2021, he received the highly cited research award from Clarivate in the category “cross field”, highlighting the top 0,1% cited scholars. Prof Blome is regular keynote speaker at academic and practitioner conferences. His research won several prestigious awards. He is also co-owner and board member of two companies (n-side, Belgium, and Procurence, Poland). Overall, Prof Blome raised more than 5 million Euro research funding with a strong focus on industry funding.

In earlier years, Prof Blome was Associate Dean of Research, Head of the Management Group and Professor of Operations Management at the University of Sussex Business School where he was also responsible for the REF position. Before Prof Blome was the GlaxoSmithKline Chaired Professor in Strategic Sourcing and Procurement at UCLouvain, Belgium and affiliated with the Center of Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE). Today he still works part-time as Kronos Group Endowed Chair at UCLouvain/CORE.

Before that, he was a supply chain consultant in Switzerland, assistant professor at EBS Business School, Germany, visiting scholar at IIM Bangalore, India. During his career he lectured and pursued research at institutions in the US, Canada, India, China, France, Belgium, Thailand etc.

• Research focus: Management and Sustainability, Gender & Organizations, Teaching Innovations
• Top publication outlet: The Academy of Management Learning & Education
• Top conference presentation: Academy of Management
• Most important grant / industry engagement: INICIA Industry Endowed Chair of Sustainability
• Most important research award: Paper award, Academy of Management 2023, Organization & Environment Division
• Prior position in higher education: Associate Professor, Catholic University of Lyon; ESDES Business School
• Postgraduate education: PhD, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona

Career highlight: United Nations PRME Co-coordinator of SIP Working Group

Assistant Professor in Business Studies, Strategy & Entrepreneurship, Accounting & Finance, Research Methods

Research focus: Trust in business relationships, negotiation

• Top publication outlet:
• Top conference presentation: Industrial Marketing and Purchase (IMP) Conference
• Most important grant / industry engagement: Friede Springer Doctoral Grant 2014, 2015, 2016
• Most important research award:
• Prior Reviewer position: Journal of Business Research
• Prior position in higher education: Research Associate, HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management
• Postgraduate education: PhD (Dr.rer.oec.), MBA, MSc, FHEA

Career highlight: Selling my start-up to a private investor

• Research focus: Private equity, venture capital
• Top publication outlet: Journal of Corporate Finance (ABS AJG: 4)
• Top conference presentation: European Finance Association
• Most important grant / industry engagement: CEIBS-Cathay Cross-Border Private Equity Research Fund
• Most important research award: L. Lang Corporate Finance Best Paper Award, European Financial Management Association
• Editorial positions: Editor in Chief, The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Private Equity
• Prior position: Postdoctoral Researcher in Finance and Executive Director of the Center for Corporate Transactions & Private Equity, HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management
• Postgraduate education: Habilitation and PhD, HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management

Career highlight: Management Development Program at Harvard Graduate School of Education

• Research focus: Operations Research, Service Management, Healthcare
• Top publication outlet: European Journal of Operational Research
• Top conference presentation: INFORMS, EURO
• Most important grant / industry engagement: EGEPAN-UNIMED, PREPARED, both part of the Network of University Medicine
• Most important research award: Outstanding Innovation in Service Systems Engineering Award, Institute of Industrial & Systems Engineers
• Editorial position: –
• Prior position in higher education: Postdoctoral Researcher, Universität Augsburg
• Postgraduate education: PhD, Indiana University

• Research focus: Customer journey, digital marketing
• Top publication outlet: Journal of Marketing
• Top conference presentation: Association for Consumer Research Conference
• Most important research award: Shelby D. Hunt/Harold H. Maynard Award, American Marketing Association Foundation
• Prior position in higher education: Lecturer, Henley Business School, University of Reading
• Postgraduate education: PhD, Newcastle University

Career highlight: Magazine article on customer journeys in Harvard Business Review

• Research focus: Innovation, Organization, Science and Technology Policy
• Top publication outlet: Research Policy
• Top conference presentation: –
• Most important grant / industry engagement: European Patent Office, German Research Foundation (DFG), Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO)
• Most important research award: Eugene Garfield Award for Innovation in Citation Analysis, Clarivate
• Editorial position: Advisory Editor, Research Policy; Associate editor, Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics; Editorial board member, Research Evaluation
• Prior position in higher education: Assistant Professor, Leiden University; Postdoc, KU Leuven; Fellow, Harvard University
• Postgraduate education: PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology

• Research focus: CSR reporting, corporate accountability, corporate strategy
• Top publication outlet: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal (ABS: 3)
• Top conference presentation: European Accounting Association
• Most important research award: Excellent paper award, Academy of Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Knowledge: International Symposium on Innovative Management, Information & Production
• Prior position in higher education: Associate Professor, Hong Kong Metropolitan University; Associate Professor, Coventry University
• Postgraduate education: Doctor of Philosophy, University of Bath