Prof. Dr. habil. Holger Schiele
born 1969, grown up in Brazil and Germany, married, three children, is Diplom-Ăkonom (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), (âInnovations from and with suppliersâ, 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 â 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.Â
Expertise
Social Sciences
- Supplier
- Customer
- Research
- Supply Management
- Satisfaction
- Perspective
Economics, Econometrics and Finance
- Enterprise
- Innovation
Organisations
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
Research profiles
Courses academic year 2025/2026
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.
- 194100040 - Master Thesis BA
- 201100054 - Supply Chain Management and Innovation
- 201500085 - Global Sourcing and Organization
- 201500101 - Master Thesis Research Proposal
- 201500102 - Master Thesis Research Project
- 201600012 - Management and Gov. of Inno.& Creativity
- 202400077 - Research Project
- 202400101 - Bachelor Thesis IBA
- 202400702 - Strategic Sourcing: Societal&tech.trends
Courses academic year 2024/2025
- 194100040 - Master Thesis BA
- 201100054 - Supply Chain Management and Innovation
- 201500085 - Global Sourcing and Organization
- 201500101 - Master Thesis Research Proposal
- 201500102 - Master Thesis Research Project
- 201600012 - Management and Gov. of Inno.& Creativity
- 202000576 - Research Proposal Bachelor Thesis IBA
- 202000579 - Bachelor Thesis IBA
- 202300363 - Internship BIT - CS
- 202400077 - Research Project
- 202400101 - Bachelor Thesis IBA
- 202400106 - Bachelor Thesis IBA, DD with Múnster
- 202400702 - Strategic Sourcing: Societal&tech.trends
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