My research focuses on resilience and innovation, with a particular interest in public procurement and crisis management. It examines the role of the public sector in fostering both resilience and innovation, as well as the evolving role of supply chains in an age of permacrisis.
Expertise
Social Sciences
- Public Procurement
- Crisis
- Dutch
- Capacity Building
- Buyers
- COVID-19
- COVID 19 Epidemic
- Purchasing
Organisations
Publications
2026
Public procurementās role in shaping supply markets: A taxonomy of local contracting authoritiesā approaches using the awareness-motivation-capability framework (2026)International journal of operations & production management, 46(13), 238-264 (E-pub ahead of print/First online). Borobia, S., Vos, F. G. S., Knight, L., Peters, E., Wijnhoven, F. & Uenk, N.https://doi.org/10.1108/IJOPM-09-2025-0930
2025
Public Procurement for Crises: Understanding the Role of Public Procurement in Responding to COVID-19 and Future Crises (2025)[Thesis › PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT]. University of Twente. Peters, E.https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036566292Enabling Procurement of Innovation: Municipal Capacity Building from Policy to Practice (2025)In IPSERA 2025 āRoom for Talentā: Rotterdam, the Netherlands, March 30 - April 2: Book of Abstracts (pp. 205-205). Article 120. International Purchasing and Supply Education and Research Association (IPSERA). Peters, E., Knight, L. & Sieber, J.
2024
A seat at the table: The future of purchasing and supply management (2024)Journal of purchasing and supply management, 30(1). Article 100908. Di Mauro, C., Peters, E. & Carnovale, S.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pursup.2024.100908
2023
Organizing for supply chain resilience: a high reliability network perspective (2023)International journal of operations & production management, 43(1), 48-69. Peters, E., Knight, L., Boersma, K. & Uenk, N.https://doi.org/10.1108/IJOPM-03-2022-0167
2022
A Kraljic and competitive rivalry perspective on hospital procurement during a pandemic (COVID-19): a Dutch case study (2022)Journal of public procurement, 22(1), 64-88. Tip, B., Vos, F. G. S., Peters, E. & Delke, V.https://doi.org/10.1108/JOPP-11-2020-0081
2021
Practitioners' learning about healthcare supply chain management in the COVID-19 pandemic: a public procurement perspective (2021)International journal of operations & production management, 41(13), 178-189. Harland, C. M., Knight, L., Patrucco, A. S., Lynch, J., Telgen, J., Peters, E., Tátrai, T. & Ferk, P.https://doi.org/10.1108/IJOPM-05-2021-0348
Research profiles
Courses academic year 2026/2027
Courses in the current academic year are added at the moment they are finalised in the Osiris system. Therefore it is possible that the list is not yet complete for the whole academic year.
- 191820160 - Purchasing Management
- 194100040 - Master Thesis BA
- 201500101 - Master Thesis Research Proposal
- 201500102 - Master Thesis Research Project
- 201600012 - Mgmt & Governance Innovation Creativity
- 202000591 - IBA/IEM Study Tour Minor
- 202000593 - Innovation & Entrepreneurship
- 202001317 - Setting-up a Business 1
- 202001318 - Setting-up a Business 2
- 202400101 - Bachelor Thesis IBA
- 202600155 - ELROD
Courses academic year 2025/2026
- 194100040 - Master Thesis BA
- 201500101 - Master Thesis Research Proposal
- 201500102 - Master Thesis Research Project
- 201600002 - ELROD
- 201600012 - Management and Gov. of Inno.& Creativity
- 202000593 - Innovation & Entrepreneurship
- 202001315 - Entrepreneurship 1
- 202001316 - Entrepreneurship 2
- 202001317 - Setting-up a Business 1
- 202001318 - Setting-up a Business 2
- 202001319 - Business in Practice 1
- 202001320 - Business in Practice 2
- 202400101 - Bachelor Thesis IBA
- 202400106 - Bachelor Thesis IBA, DD with Münster
Address

University of Twente
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Hallenweg 17
7522 NH Enschede
Netherlands
University of Twente
Ravelijn 2121
P.O. Box 217
7500 AE Enschede
Netherlands