Kim E. van Oorschot
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View article: Sustainable pharmaceutical procurement: Environmental tendering criteria for better or worse?
Sustainable pharmaceutical procurement: Environmental tendering criteria for better or worse? Open
View article: Riding the waves of uncertainty: Towards strategic agility in medicine supply systems
Riding the waves of uncertainty: Towards strategic agility in medicine supply systems Open
We investigate how organizations embedded in a supply system collectively respond to risks and seize opportunities arising from crisis events under shifting forms of uncertainty. Using the United Kingdom (UK) medicine supply system as the …
View article: Standardization cycles in sustainability reporting within the Global Reporting Initiative
Standardization cycles in sustainability reporting within the Global Reporting Initiative Open
To analyze whether Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) standards could reduce transparency in sustainability reporting, we performed a longitudinal content analysis of sustainability reports for 15 large Norwegian organizations from 2010 to …
View article: Sustainable Pharmaceutical Procurement: Innovative Tendering with Triple-Bottom Line Benefits
Sustainable Pharmaceutical Procurement: Innovative Tendering with Triple-Bottom Line Benefits Open
View article: Drug shortages: A systems view of the current state
Drug shortages: A systems view of the current state Open
The objective of this thought leadership article is to create a systems view of drug shortages based on the perceptions of practitioners and policymakers. We develop a comprehensive framework describing what stakeholders are currently doin…
View article: The complexity of post‐mergers and acquisitions reorganization: Integration and differentiation
The complexity of post‐mergers and acquisitions reorganization: Integration and differentiation Open
Research Summary This article applies a mixed‐method approach to explore the complexities of post‐mergers and acquisitions (M&A) integration processes. Extant literature provides significant insights regarding the impact of task and human …
View article: Dysfunctional Agile–Stage-Gate Hybrid Development: Keeping Up Appearances
Dysfunctional Agile–Stage-Gate Hybrid Development: Keeping Up Appearances Open
Increasingly, the development of today’s “smart” products requires the integration of both software and hardware in embedded systems. To develop these, hardware firms typically enlist the expertise of software development firms to offer in…
View article: Collaboration–competition dilemma in flattening the COVID‐19 curve
Collaboration–competition dilemma in flattening the COVID‐19 curve Open
Testing for COVID‐19 is a key intervention that supports tracking and isolation to prevent further infections. However, diagnostic tests are a scarce and finite resource, so abundance in one country can quickly lead to shortages in others,…
View article: Organizing for permanent beta: performance measurement <i>before</i> vs performance monitoring <i>after</i> release of digital services
Organizing for permanent beta: performance measurement <i>before</i> vs performance monitoring <i>after</i> release of digital services Open
Purpose Due to the complexity of digital services, companies are increasingly forced to offer their services “in permanent beta”, requiring continuous fine-tuning and updating. Complexity makes it extremely difficult to predict when and wh…
View article: Short of drugs? Call upon operations and supply chain management
Short of drugs? Call upon operations and supply chain management Open
Purpose This “impact pathways” paper argues that operations and supply chain management (OSCM) could help address the worsening drug shortage problem in high-income countries. This significant societal problem poses difficult challenges to…
View article: A review of scientific and grey literature on medicine shortages and the need for a research agenda in Operations and Supply Chain Management
A review of scientific and grey literature on medicine shortages and the need for a research agenda in Operations and Supply Chain Management Open
High-income countries are facing a significant and worsening drug shortage problem. This position paper argues that operations and supply chain management (OSCM) could (and perhaps should) be used more widely to help address this issue: 1)…
View article: Managing trust and control when offshoring information systems development projects by adjusting project goals
Managing trust and control when offshoring information systems development projects by adjusting project goals Open
This article presents a study of two projects focusing on the relationships of two Nordic clients with suppliers in low-cost countries. It explores the interplay between trust and control when offshoring information systems development pro…
View article: Team Collective Intelligence in Dynamically Complex Projects—A Shipbuilding Case
Team Collective Intelligence in Dynamically Complex Projects—A Shipbuilding Case Open
In concurrent engineering projects driven by short delivery times, team performance rests on the team’s capability to quickly and effectively handle different, emergent issues. We conducted an exploratory study of a large, dynamically comp…
View article: Improving inter-organizational care-cure designs: specialization versus integration
Improving inter-organizational care-cure designs: specialization versus integration Open
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate inter-organizational designs for care–cure conditions in which low-risk patients are cared for in specialized care organizations and high-risk patients are cared for in specialized cure o…
View article: Throbbing Between Two Lives: Resource Pooling in Service Supply Chains
Throbbing Between Two Lives: Resource Pooling in Service Supply Chains Open
Resource pooling is known to benefit performance through reduced congestion, but primarily in settings with homogenous demand. In settings where demand is heterogeneous, pooling can be counter effective. The effects of pooling of staff whe…
View article: Throbbing between two lives : Resource pooling in service supply chains
Throbbing between two lives : Resource pooling in service supply chains Open
Resource pooling is known to benefit performance through reduced congestion, but primarily in settings with homogenous demand. In settings where demand is heterogeneous, pooling can be counter effective. The effects of pooling of staff whe…
View article: Measuring the Knowns to Manage the Unknown: How to Choose the Gate Timing Strategy in NPD Projects
Measuring the Knowns to Manage the Unknown: How to Choose the Gate Timing Strategy in NPD Projects Open
Stage‐wise timing of new product development (NPD) activities is advantageous for a project's performance. The literature does not, however, specify whether this implies setting and adhering to a fixed schedule of gate meetings from the st…
View article: Managerial attention to exploitation versus exploration: toward a dynamic perspective on ambidexterity
Managerial attention to exploitation versus exploration: toward a dynamic perspective on ambidexterity Open
Managerial attention to exploitation and exploration has a strong influence on organizational performance. However, there is hardly any knowledge about whether senior managers need to adjust their distribution of attention to exploitation …