Disruptive digital technology adoption in global supply chains

Author's Biography

Edward Sweeney BA, BAI, MPhil, PhD, PGCert, FCILT, FCMI, FinstLM, FRSA is professor of logistics and systems and director of the Aston Logistics and Systems Institute at Aston University in Birmingham, UK. He is a committee member of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) West Midlands region and was elected chair of the CILT’s Logistics Research Network (LRN) by his peers in 2015. He is a former winner of the ‘Member of the Year’ award of CILT in Ireland and of the CILT (UK) James Cooper Memorial Cup for the best PhD thesis on a supply chain or logistics topic in the UK or Ireland. Edward joined Aston from the National Institute for Transport and Logistics (NITL) in Dublin, where he was director. He has also held full-time academic posts at the University of Warwick and the University of Technology, Malaysia (UTM), as well as visiting positions at several institutions in Asia and North America. His research has been widely published and he sits on the editorial boards of several leading international supply chain journals. Edward has worked in close collaboration with many of the world’s leading companies across many sectors including electronics, food and drink, life sciences and logistics. He has worked in over 50 countries across the world. His current work focuses on the issues of supply chain sustainability and integration in global supply chains, with particular reference to the divergence between theory and practice.

Andreas Taschner is Professor of Accounting and the programme director of the BSc International Operations and Logistics Management at ESB Business School, Reutlingen University, Germany. He joined ESB Business School from Beuth University of Applied Sciences, Berlin, after 12 years in manufacturing industry, holding various management positions in the marketing and accounting areas. Andreas studied business administration at Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien and at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and holds a PhD in social sciences from Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien. Andreas has held various academic management positions and was Dean of ESB Business School from 2016 to 2019. He is also a member of the German logistics association Bundesvereinigung Logistik (BVL). Andreas focuses his research and publication activities on management accounting problems in an international manufacturing environment with a special focus on logistics and supply chains and has published various textbooks and journal papers on management accounting topics. He is a reviewer for several peer-reviewed journals.

Hazel Grünewald is Professor of Organisational Behaviour at ESB Business School, Reutlingen University, Germany. She obtained her PhD from the University of Nottingham, UK in 2000. Hazel joined ESB Business School following a nine-year career in industry in various positions spanning global corporate training and development, management development and international programme management. She has acted as an international guest lecturer at the following universities: SBM ITB (Jakarta, Indonesia), UMP (Kuantan, Malaysia) and ZSEM (Zagreb, Croatia). Hazel’s current research focuses on self-efficacy, motivation and international curricula.