14th EurOMA Sustainable Operations and Supply Chains Forum
Groningen, The Netherlands
The promise of inter- and trans-disciplinary approaches for sustainable operations and supply chains
It is widely acknowledged that many of the sustainability challenges that the world faces, and what has been part of the research agenda within the past EurOMA Sustainability Forums, require scientists to go beyond the boundaries of their respective disciplines. However, realizing and engaging in inter- or transdisciplinary work is a challenge in itself. The forum aims to bring together people that have experience and interest in such, much needed work. Given that the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Groningen has been very involved in promoting and engaging in inter- and transdisciplinary approaches, we aim to combine the expertise, knowledge and lessons learnt here with those of the EurOMA community.
We welcome both examples of inter- and trans-disciplinary work that bring sustainable OM/SCM further as well as critical reflections, problems and discussions of limits to such approaches. We invite submissions in all areas related to sustainable operations and supply chains that align with the theme.
Department of Operations, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Groningen
The Department of Operations is one of the largest research groups in Europe working on operations, with focal areas in Operations Management, Operations Research, and Supply Chain Management. It has around 40 tenured and tenure-track faculty, alongside part-time lecturers, postdocs, and a large group of PhD researchers. Active topics include inventory and maintenance, quantitative logistics, energy and sustainable supply chains, healthcare operations, behavioural operations, scheduling and planning, stochastic optimization, supply chain finance, and data-driven decision making. Recent work has appeared in FT50 and UT Dallas list-journals such as Journal of Operations Management, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Management Science, Operations Research, and Production and Operations Management, with further output in Decision Sciences, Journal of Supply Chain Management, Mathematical Programming, Mathematics of Operations Research, and Transportation Science. On the teaching side, the department contributes to BSc in Business Administration, BSc Econometrics and Operations Research and delivers MSc Supply Chain Management, MSc Technology and Operations Management, and MSc Econometrics, Operations Research and Actuarial Studies, and has an active PhD programme.
The Faculty of Economics and Business belongs to the top 1% of business schools worldwide that hold both AACSB and EQUIS accreditation. The faculty has around 7,150 degree students of whom 1,454 are international. Teaching and research activities are delivered by 461 FTE academic. Recent international rankings place FEB at #31 in the Shanghai Global Ranking of Academic Subjects for Business Administration, #40 in the U.S. News Best Global Universities ranking for Economics and Business, and #56 in the THE World University Rankings for Business and Economics.
Founded in 1614, the University of Groningen is one of the oldest research universities in the Netherlands and is regularly placed among the top 100 worldwide. Its alumni and faculty include several Nobel laureates, among them Frits Zernike (Physics, 1953) and Ben Feringa (Chemistry, 2016).