Prof. Dr. habil. Holger Schiele

born 1969, grown up in Brazil and Germany, married, three children, is Diplom-Ökonom (Master of Economics and Business Administration). He has studied in Maastricht and in Hanover, obtaining both, Ph.D. and habilitation in business administration (venia legendi), (“Innovations from and with suppliers”, 2008), with counted on the support of BME (the German purchasing association), from Leibniz Universität Hannover.

Besides academia, he has worked for ten years at the strategy department of Preussag AG, as consultant for PricewaterhouseCoopers and as project manager with h&z business consulting. Consulted firms include large corporations such as Shell, Siemens or ThyssenKrupp as well as medium sized firms. Previous to joining the University of Twente in 2009 he was at Jacobs University in Bremen.

Besides publishing two management books (#1 Financial Times list), he wrote numerous, academic papers, which were cited more than a thousand times and appeared in innovation management journals such as Research Policy, R&D Management or Research-Technology Management and purchasing related papers, such as the Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management, Industrial Marketing Management or Journal of Supply Chain Management, among others.

Holger Schiele joins UTIPS – The University of Twente Initiative of Purchasing Studies (www.utips.eu) and is member of the advisory commission of NLR - Netherlands Aerospace Centre and of the advisory council of AutoUni, Wolfsburg. 

Expertise

  • Social Sciences

    • Supplier
    • Customer
    • Research
    • Supply Management
    • Satisfaction
    • Perspective
  • Economics, Econometrics and Finance

    • Enterprise
    • Innovation

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Ancillary activities

  • suPlay BVBoard member
  • CIEC - Centro Internacional de Estudos em ComprasCollaborator
  • IFPSM - International Federation of Purchasing and Supply ManagmentAssessor IFPSM
  • University of TwenteBoard member UTIPS foundation
  • GlobalBoard member IPSERA association

Publications

2025

Digital platforms in non-digital markets: Adoption dynamics in traditional industries (2025)[Thesis › PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT]. University of Twente. Di Domenico, M.https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036570008Hoe word je voorkeursklant van innovatieve leveranciers?: Samenwerking tussen inkoop en R&D sleutel tot succes (2025)Deal!, 7, 36. NEVI. Arentsen, J., Schiele, H. & Vos, F. G. S.Purchasing category management: Portfolio management, sourcing levers and strategy formulation (2025)Journal of purchasing and supply management. Article 101086 (E-pub ahead of print/First online). Fontes, F. L., Delke, V., Schiele, H., Rotmensen, J., Grobman, F. & Fouto, N. M. M. D.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pursup.2025.101086Supplier connectivity and collaboration: Driving digitalisation and building resilient supply chains (2025)[Thesis › PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT]. University of Twente. Kalesh, S.https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036568463Experimental game-based learning: A serious game experiment in purchasing and supply management (2025)Journal of purchasing and supply management. Article 101077 (E-pub ahead of print/First online). Delke, V., Vos, F. G. S. & Schiele, H.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pursup.2025.101077Improving startup’s attractiveness as industrial customers by organizing theirpurchasing activities (2025)Journal of Global Operations and Strategic Sourcing, 18(2), 414-438. Tessaro, J. A., Harms, R. & Schiele, H.https://doi.org/10.1108/JGOSS-07-2022-0083Systematic Literature Review on Purchasing Involvement Research and New Avenues for Future Research (2025)[Working paper › Preprint]. Social Science Research Network (SSRN). Arentsen, J., Vos, F. G. S. & Schiele, H.https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5205712Designing an inflation management tool for souring (2025)In IPSERA 2025 “Room for Talent”: Rotterdam, the Netherlands, March 30 - April 2: Book of Abstracts (pp. 193-193). Article 113. International Purchasing and Supply Education and Research Association (IPSERA). Sieber, J., Delke, V., Greven, L., Fontes, F. & Schiele, H.E-auction research in the era of industry 4.0 and AI: A systematic review and research agenda (2025)In IPSERA 2025 “Room for Talent”: Rotterdam, the Netherlands, March 30 - April 2: Book of Abstracts (pp. 235-235). Article 418. International Purchasing and Supply Education and Research Association (IPSERA). Matos, J., Vos, F., Schiele, H. & Sigurðardóttir, A.EU-ESG Legislation: Purchasing with CS3D (2025)In IPSERA 2025 “Room for Talent”: Rotterdam, the Netherlands, March 30 - April 2: Book of Abstracts (pp. 277-281). Article 153. International Purchasing and Supply Education and Research Association (IPSERA). Bachus, E. X., Delke, V., Ibrahim, I. A. & Schiele, H.

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