Prestigious ‘OSCM Distinguished Scholar Award’ bestowed to Prof. Wagner
At the 2023 annual meeting of the Academy of Management in Boston, Prof. Dr. Stephan Wagner received one of the highest recognitions empirical researchers in the field of operations and supply chain management can obtain.
Each year the OSCM division at the external pageAcademy of Management bestows a external pageDistinguished Scholar Award to a leading global scholar. The award honors excellence in the field of operations and supply chain management scholarship which has helped to shape both the field’s body of knowledge and practice. And it recognizes commitment to serve the operations and supply chain field, both as a whole and within the Academy of Management.
The external pageOSCM division promotes research on important and broad problems, with a focus on empirical research that is often cross-disciplinary. The Distinguished Scholar Award offers an opportunity to highlight, define and honor scholars that underline this focus.
At this year's annual meeting, Stephan’s commitment to interdisciplinary collaboration was evident in his participation on the All-Academy panel on Blockchain Research in Management, sponsored by the CTO, TIM, and ENT divisions. Furthermore, he served as a Mentor at the OSCM division Junior Faculty and Doctoral Consortium.
The laudatory speech, given by external pageProf. Dr. Lutz Kaufmann, emphasized Stephan’s groundbreaking research at the intersection of entrepreneurship and operations management, on supplier innovation, and on digital – and, not to forget of course, his pioneering work on risk and disruption. As just one indication of his remarkable impact it was mentioned that his work has been cited close to 20,000 times according to Google Scholar. Furthermore, Prof. Kaufmann noted that Stephan’s excellence in research has been consistently recognized through numerous best paper, conference and other research awards. Finally, Prof. Kaufmann praised Stephan's commitment to leveraging his expertise for the betterment of society – evident through his role as the Founder and Director of the HumOSCM Lab at ETH Zurich. Prof. Kaufmann summarized his speech by saying “Stephan undoubtedly belongs in the illustrious "hall of fame" of our most exceptional colleagues.”
Thank you to the Past Division Chair of the OSCM division and Head of the OSCM Distinguished Scholar Selection Committee (Sean Handley, University of South Carolina), to all other members of the Selection Committee, and to all elected OSCM Committee Members (Stephanie Eckerd, University of Tennessee; Kai Förstl, EBS Business School; Veronica H. Villena, Arizona State University; Anand Nair, Northeastern University).
