Course Catalog

Theories and Research in Logistics and Supply Chain Management is a doctoral course for logistics, supply chain management, and operations management students. Logistics and supply chain management have been criticised for not having an own theory, thus theory development as well as borrowing theories from other disciplines remain important in this field. There are also myriads of definitions of supply chain management as well as different perspectives on the overlaps between logistics, purchasing, transportation, operations management, and supply chain management. This course focuses on discussing core concepts as well as the boundaries of the field. Furthermore, it focuses on discussing the application of different theories to this field, as well as different approaches to theory building, theory testing, and borrowing theories from other disciplines. The aim of this course is to further the understanding for the application of different theories to supply chain management. The focus of the course is on analysing and discussing theory building, theory testing, and borrowing theories from other disciplines as well as to analyse the boundaries of supply chain management as a discipline. Upon completing the course students are expected to have an overview and be able to analyse different theories that have commonly been applied to supply chain management. They are also expected to be able to argue for their own choices of theories for their dissertation, their concepts and constituencies, ontology and epistemological approach.