prof.dr. L.A. Knight (Louise)

My research, teaching and advisory activities are focused on procurement/purchasing and supply management (PSM) with a particular interest in how organizations in the public and healthcare sectors can mobilise suppliers, to deliver better services to the communities they serve.

Through various projects and courses, I address capacity building and capability development in the management of external resources at various levels and across various types of organization, such as public hospitals, municipalities, government agencies and national government department, e.g.:

• Procurement policy and strategy, especially related to concentrated markets and market stewarding
• Procurement of innovation
• The strategic development of strategic procurement within organizations
• The knowledge and skills of procurement experts, and how these need to change

All of which are aimed at the future - strategic change and ‘business-not-as-usual’ – which need to be informed by new thinking and novel methods.

I am a Senior Associate Editor for the Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management (having served as Co-Editor in Chief from 2016 to 2022), and an Editorial Board member for the Journal of Public Procurement. I am an active member of the International Purchasing & Supply Education and Research Association (IPSERA), a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply and Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Association (UK).

I participate in the Urban Agenda Partnership on Innovative and Responsible Public Procurement (UT is an associate partner), and the Innovation Procurement Taskforce  

For publications, see my Google Scholar profile

Expertise

• Social Sciences

  • Research
  • Supply Management
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Perspective
  • Sustainability
  • Process
  • Approach
  • Skills

Organisations

Current and recent research, projects and publications, in collaboration with local and international colleagues, include:

• HEU CSA project PROCEDIN (Building Procurement Capability for Embedding and Driving Innovation in European cities) (project coordinator)
• HEU CSA project InnoHSupport (Empowering healthcare innovation procurement through the right services)
• Interreg Europe project HERCULES   (Health Empowerment through Regional Collaboration by fostering innovation from the demand-side)
• ZonMW funded MASSC project - critical materials in a crisis- with PPRC and Erasmus University 
• The International Research Study on Public Procurement
• The dynamic capabilities of ‘born sustainable’ firms, with Desiree Knoppen (EADA)
• PSM in times of crisis – learning from the covid-19 pandemic - in collaboration with PhD candidate Esmee Peters
• Market stewarding, in collaboration with PhD candidate Steven Borobia
• Capacity building for homecare innovation in collaboration with PhD candidate Yaren Palamut
• Pooled Procurement in African Healthcare Supply Chains, in collaboration with PhD candidate Marco Masala, on a scholarship funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) through Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW) via the University of Rwanda, East African Community Regional Centre of Excellence for Vaccines, Immunization, and Health Supply Chain Management (EAC RCE-VIHSCM)

Publications

Other contributions

Book: Knight, L.A., Harland, C.M., Telgen, J., Callender, G., Thai, K.V. and McKen, K.E. (Eds) (2007) Public Procurement: International Cases and Commentary. London: Routledge.

Research profiles

Courses academic year 2024/2025

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.

Courses academic year 2023/2024

See Research tab for current and research projects.

Address

University of Twente

Ravelijn (building no. 10), room 2272
Hallenweg 17
7522 NH Enschede
Netherlands

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