Busse, Christian, Prof. Dr.

Since 2017, Christian Busse is a full professor and holds the external pageChair of Sustainable Production Managementcall_made  at the Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg. From 2013 to 2017, he was a Senior Researcher and Lecturer at the Chair of Logistics Management, where he also completed his Habilitation thesis entitled Perspectives on the Management of Sustainability in Global Supply Chains. Christian received his Ph.D. from WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management, Germany in 2010 (graded “summa cum laude”) and holds a master's degree in industrial engineering and management from the Technical University of Berlin that was granted in 2002 (with highest distinction). From 2010 to 2013, Christian was the responsible project manager for a major research project on sustainable supply chain management at EBS University for Business and Law in Wiesbaden, Germany. Prior to pursuing his Ph.D., he worked as a management consultant for The Boston Consulting Group in Düsseldorf, Germany.

Christian's research interests relate to sustainable supply chain management, sustainable logistics, the interface between the organization and its environment, the research-practice gap and its mitigation, as well as to methodological questions. To date, his research has appeared in Decision Sciences, International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management, Journal of Business Logistics, Journal of Industrial Ecology, Journal of Supply Chain Management, Organizational Research Methods, as well as other journals. He has taught courses at all levels on Logistics Management, Logistics and Supply Chain Innovation, Supply Chain Controlling, Innovation Management, as well as Management Accounting and Control at various institutions in Austria, Bulgaria, Germany, Spain and Switzerland. At ETH Zurich, he offered a M.Sc./M.A.S. course on Sustainable Supply Chain Management in the fall term.

Christian serves as an Associate Editor to the International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management (Outstanding Reviewer Award 2012) and the Journal of Supply Chain Management (Best Reviewer Award 2012). Moreover, he is a member of the Editorial Review Boards of Journal of Business Logistics (Outstanding Reviewer Award 2013) and Journal of Operations Management.

Refereed journal articles

• Mateska, Ivana/Busse, Christian/Kach, Andrew P./Wagner, Stephan M. (2023). Sustainability-related Transgressions in Global Supply Chains: When do Legitimacy Spillovers Hurt Buying Firms the Most?, Journal of Supply Chain Management, Vol. 59, No. 4, October, pp. 42-78, doi: external page10.1111/jscm.12308call_made
• Duensing, Sina/Schleper, Martin C./Busse, Christian (2023): Wildlife Trafficking as a Societal Supply Chain Risk: Removing the Parasite Without Damaging the Host?, Journal of Supply Chain Management, Vol. 59, No. 2, April, pp. 3-32, doi: external page10.1111/jscm.12297call_made
• Reinerth, Dagmar/Busse, Christian/Wagner, Stephan M. (2019): Using Country Risk to Inform Sustainable Supply Chain Management: A Design Science Study, Journal of Business Logistics, Vol. 40, No. 3, September, pp. 241-264, doi: external page10.1111/jbl.12190call_made
• Foerstl, Kai/Meinlschmidt, Jan/Busse, Christian (2018): It's a Match! Choosing Information Processing Mechanisms to Address Sustainability-Related Uncertainty in Sustainable Supply Management. Journal of Purchasing & Supply Management, Vol. 24, No. 3, pp. 204-2017, doi: external page10.1016/j.pursup.2018.02.00call_made2
• Goldhammer, Bernhard/Busse, Christian/Busch, Timo (2017): Estimating Corporate Carbon Footprints with Publicly Available Data, Journal of Industrial Ecology, Vol. 21, No. 5, October, pp. 1165-1179, doi: external page10.1111/jiec.12522call_made
• Busse, Christian/Kach, Andrew/Wagner, Stephan M. (2017): Boundary Conditions: What They Are, How to Explore Them, Why We Need Them, and When to Consider Them, Organizational Research Methods, Vol. 20, No. 4, October, pp. 574-609, doi: external page10.1177/1094428116641191call_made
• Busse, Christian/Regelmann, Alexander/Chithambaram, Hariganesh/Wagner, Stephan M. (2017): Managerial Perceptions of Energy in Logistics: An Integration of the Theory of Planned Behavior and Stakeholder Theory, International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management, Vol. 47, No. 6, pp. 447-471, doi: external page10.1108/IJPDLM-04-2015-0090call_made
• Stańczyk, Alina/Cataldo, Zelal/Blome, Constantin/Busse, Christian (2017): The Dark Side of Global Sourcing: Review and Research Agenda, International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management, Vol. 47, No. 1, pp. 41-67, doi: external page10.1108/IJPDLM-10-2015-0252call_made
• Busse, Christian/Meinlschmidt, Jan/Förstl, Kai (2017): Managing Information Processing Needs in Global Supply Chains: A Prerequisite to Sustainable Supply Chain Management, Journal of Supply Chain Management, Vol. 53, No. 1, pp. 87-113, doi: external page10.1111/jscm.12129call_made
  
• Busse, Christian/Schleper, Martin C./Weilenmann, Jenny/Wagner, Stephan M. (2017): Extending the Supply Chain Visibility Boundary: Utilizing Stakeholders for Identifying Supply Chain Sustainability Risks, International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management, Vol. 47, No. 1, pp. 18-40, doi: external page10.1108/IJPDLM-02-2015-0043call_made
• Busse, Christian/Kach, Andrew/Bode, Christoph (2016): Sustainability and the False Sense of Legitimacy: How Institutional Distance Augments Risk in Global Supply Chains, Journal of Business Logistics, Vol. 37, No. 4, pp. 312-328, doi: external page10.1111/jbl.12143call_made
• Kach, Andrew/Busse, Christian/Azadegan, Arash/Wagner, Stephan M. (2016): Maneuvering through Hostile Environments: How Firms Leverage Product and Process Innovativeness, Decision Sciences, Vol. 47, No. 5, October, pp. 907-956, doi: external page10.1111/deci.12196call_made
• Busse, Christian/Schleper, Martin C./Nui, Menglei/Wagner, Stephan M. (2016): Supplier Development for Sustainability: Contextual Barriers in Global Supply Chains, International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management, Vol. 46, No. 5, pp. 442-468, doi: external page10.1108/IJPDLM-12-2015-0300call_made
• Busse, Christian (2016): Doing Well by Doing Good? The Self-interest of Buying Firms and Sustainable Supply Chain Management, Journal of Supply Chain Management, Vol. 52, No. 2, pp. 28-47, doi: external page10.1111/jscm.12096call_made
• Busse, Christian/Mahlendorf, Matthias D./Bode, Christoph (2016): The ABC for Studying the Too-much-of-a-good-thing Effect: A Competitive Mediation Framework Linking Antecedents, Benefits, and Costs, Organizational Research Methods, Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 131-153, doi: external page10.1177/1094428115579699call_made.
• Stańczyk, Alina/Förstl, Kai/Busse, Christian/Blome, Constantin (2015): Global Sourcing Decision-making Processes: Politics, Intuition and Procedural Rationality, Journal of Business Logistics, Vol. 36, No. 2, pp. 160-181, doi: external page10.1111/jbl.12090call_made
• Busse, Christian (2014): Supply Chain Theorizing in a Fast-changing World: Response to Scott Saunders, Journal of Business Logistics, Vol. 35, No. 4, pp. 359-360, doi: external page10.1111/jbl.12072call_made
• Hofmann, Hannes/Busse, Christian/Bode, Christoph/Henke, Michael (2014): Sustainability-Related Supply Chain Risks: Conceptualization and Management, Business Strategy and the Environment, Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 160-172, doi: external page10.1002/bse.1778call_made
  
• Busse, Christian/Wallenburg, Carl Marcus (2014): Firm-Level Innovation Management at Logistics Service Providers: An Exploration, International Journal of Logistics: Research & Applications, Vol. 17, No. 5, pp. 396-419, doi: external page10.1080/13675567.2013.871509call_made
  
• Schleper, Martin C./Busse, Christian (2013): Toward a Standardized Supplier Code of Ethics: Development of a Design Concept Based on Diffusion of Innovation Theory, Logistics Research, Vol. 6, No. 4, pp. 187-216, doi: external page10.1007/s12159-013-0109-1call_made
  
• Busse, Christian/Wallenburg, Carl Marcus (2011): Innovation Management of Logistics Service Providers – Foundations, Review and Research Agenda, International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management, Vol. 41, No. 2, pp. 187-218, doi: external page10.1108/09600031111118558call_made
  
• Busse, Christian (2010): A Procedure for Secondary Data Analysis: Innovation by Logistics Service Providers, Journal of Supply Chain Management, Vol. 46, No. 4, pp. 44-58, doi: external page10.1111/j.1745-493X.2010.03205.xcall_made.
  
• Busse, Christian/Eitelwein Oliver/Wallenburg, Carl Marcus (2007): Prozessmodell der Innovationsentwicklung bei Logistikdienstleistern – Theoretische Konzeption und Ergebnis von Aktionsforschung, Logistik Management, Vol. 9, No. 3-4, pp. 23-41.