Harri Lorentz
D.Sc.
harri.lorentz@utu.fi +358 29 450 2482 +358 50 502 7087 Rehtorinpellonkatu 3 Turku |
Areas of expertise
Procurement; Supply Chain Management;
Procurement; Supply Chain Management;
Biography
Mr. Harri
Lorentz received his doctoral degree in international business in 2009 from
University of Turku, Finland, and currently serves as an associate professor of
purchasing and supply management in the Operations & Supply Chain
Management programme of Turku School of Economics at the University of Turku,
Finland. His research interests are currently concentrated on digitalization of
procurement, procurement capabilities, as well as on supply market
intelligence. In the past Dr. Lorentz has been affiliated with the University
of Cambridge (Senior Research Associate), and Manchester Business School
(visiting researcher) in the UK. He also has practical experience from food
export operations as well as World Bank led trade and transport facilitation
projects in the CIS countries. Dr. Lorentz has published in several leading
international journals, such as Journal of Supply Chain Management, Supply
Chain Management: An International Journal, International Journal of Physical
Distribution & Logistics Management, International Journal of Production
Economics, Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management and Industrial Marketing
Management.
Publications 
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- Explorations within Digital Supply Chain Transformation Programs – Towards a Theory of Double Loop Learning
(Presentation at the 34th Annual POMS Conference 2024) (2024) Srai, Jag; Joglekar, Nitin; Lorentz, Harri
(Other publication) - Exploring implementation uncertainties in digital supply chain transformation programmes
(Presentation at the 28th Cambridge International Manufacturing Symposium 2024) (2024) Srai, Jag; Lorentz, Harri
(Other publication) - Impact pathways: unhooking supply chains from conflict zones-reconfiguration and fragmentation lessons from the Ukraine-Russia war (2023)
- International Journal of Operations and Production Management
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Procurement's role in resolving demand – supply imbalances: an information processing theory perspective (2023)
- International Journal of Operations and Production Management
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Towards understanding agile sourcing – case Finnair mobile app (2023)
- IPSERA conference proceedings
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Towards understanding digital supply chain transformation programs – Perspectives from the literature
(Conference abstract: Cambridge International Manufacturing Symposium 2023) (2023) Lorentz Harri
(Other publication) - Future procurement competencies, technologies and roles for 2030– A Delphi study
(Presentation at the IPSERA Conference 2022) (2022) Aminoff Anna, Hallikas Jukka, Lorentz Harri, Hakkarainen Sari, Haapasalo Kaija, Kaikkonen Kari, van der Steen Hanna
(Other publication) - An attention-based view of supply disruption risk management: balancing biased attentional processing for improved resilience in the COVID-19 context (2021)
- International Journal of Operations and Production Management
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Structuring the phenomenon of procurement digitalisation: contexts, interventions and mechanisms (2021)
- International Journal of Operations and Production Management
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Acquisition of supply market intelligence – An information processing perspective (2020)
- Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Decade of purchasing and supply management in Finnish annual reports
(Presentation at the 32nd Annual Conference of Nordic Logistics Research Network) (2020) Tuomas Kiiski, Sini Laari, Harri Lorentz
(Other publication) - Distributed manufacturing: a new form of localised production? (2020)
- International Journal of Operations and Production Management
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Attention-based view on achieving ambidexterity in purchasing and supply management (2019)
- Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Developing design principles for the digitalisation of purchasing and supply management (2019)
- Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Value chain perspective on the use of trade credit during the 2006-2015 business cycle - evidence from Eurozone SMEs (2019)
- International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Estimating the size of the national logistics market: A method to include both market-based demand and in-house services (2018)
- International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Logistiikkaselvitys 2018 (2018) Tomi Solakivi, Lauri Ojala, Sini Laari, Harri Lorentz, Tuomas Kiiski, Juuso Töyli, Jarmo Malmsten, Anu Bask, Oskari Rintala, Aleksi Paimander, Hanna Rintala
(D4 Published development or research report or study ) - Managing separation in international purchasing and supply: A systematic review of literature from the resource-based view perspective (2018)
- International Business Review
(A2 Refereed review article in a scientific journal ) - The effect of external supply knowledge acquisition, development activities and organizational status on the supply performance of SMEs (2018)
- Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Editorial for NOFOMA 2016 conference special issue (SI) (2017)
- International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal)
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