Two finalists for the AOM 2014 Chan Hahn Best Paper Award

The paper by <link people melek-akin-ates _blank>dr. Melek Akin Ates, <link people erik-van-raaij _blank>dr. Erik van Raaij, and <link people finn-wynstra _blank>prof. dr. Finn Wynstra, titled “The Impact of Purchasing Strategy-Structure (Mis)fit on Purchasing Cost and Innovation Performance” has been announced as one of the finalists for the Operations Management (OM) Division’s Chan Hahn Best Paper Award at the 74^th Annual Meeting of Academy of Management (AOM) .

Another paper by the former external PhD student of <link people finn-wynstra _blank>prof. dr. Finn Wynstra, Kai Förstl (currently Assistant Professor at EBS Business School), has also been announced as a finalist. The title of this paper is “Why and how industrial suppliers integrate upstream supply chain management and downstream marketing”.

74^th AOM conference will be held August 1-5, 2014, in Philadelphia. Every year, more than 10,000 students, academics, scholars, and professionals in the management field participate to the AOM conference. For more information about the conference, please see: http://aom.org/annualmeeting/