Bode, Christoph, Prof. Dr.
Short Bio
Christoph Bode is a full professor at the Business School of the University of Mannheim and holds the external page Endowed Chair of Procurement. He obtained his Ph.D. from WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management (Germany) and his Habilitation from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich). He holds a master's degree in business engineering (Dipl.-Wi.-Ing.) from the University of Karlsruhe (TH) (Germany) and master's degrees in industrial engineering (ingénieur génie industriel) and in management (master de recherche) from the Grenoble Institute of Technology (INPG) (France).
Prior to joining the faculty in Mannheim, he served at the Department of Organization and Strategy and at the Center for Economic Research (CentER) at Tilburg University (The Netherlands) and at the Department of Management, Technology, and Economics (D-MTEC) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich. He is still affiliated with these institutions as an extramural research fellow.
Prof. Bode's teaching and research interests lie in the areas of procurement, supply chain, logistics, and operations management with a special focus on risk and disruptions, interfirm relationships, innovation and entrepreneurship, sustainability, and strategies and performance. His research in these areas has been published in multi-disciplinary management journals, such as the Academy of Management Journal, Decision Sciences, Organization Studies, or Organizational Research Methods, as well as in leading operations management journals, such as the European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of Business Logistics, Journal of Operations Management, or Journal of Supply Chain Management. Several studies have received awards such as the Best Paper Award at the European Decision Sciences Institute (EDSI) Annual Meeting (2011) or the Best Paper Award at the International Purchasing and Supply Education and Research Association (IPSERA) Annual Meeting (2014).
Prof. Bode serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Supply Chain Management (best reviewer award 2011) and the Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management, on the editorial review board of the Journal of Operations Management (best reviewer awards 2012 and 2013), and as a frequent ad-hoc reviewer for other leading journals and conferences.
Selected publications
- Bode, Christoph/Macdonald, John R./Merath, Maximilian (2022): Supply Disruptions and Protection Motivation: Why Some Managers Act Proactively (and Others Don't), Journal of Business Logistics, Vol. 43, No. 1, March, pp. 92-115, doi: external page 10.1111/jbl.12293
- Wagner, Stephan M./Bode, Christoph/Peter, Moritz A. (2022): Financially Distressed Suppliers: Exit, Neglect, Voice, or Loyalty?, International Journal of Logistics Management, Vol. 33, No. 4, pp. 1500-1523, doi: external page 10.1108/IJLM-02-2021-0127
- von Falkenhausen, Christian/Fleischmann, Moritz/Bode, Christoph (2019): How to Find the Right Supply Chain Strategy? An Analysis of Contingency Variables, Decision Sciences, Vol. 50, No. 4, August, pp. 726-755, doi: external page 10.1111/deci.12355
- Bode, Christoph and Macdonald, John R. (2017): Stages of Supply Chain Disruption Response: Direct, Constraining, or Mediating Factors for Impact Mitigation?, Decision Sciences, Vol. 48, No. 5, October, pp. 836-874, doi: external page 10.1111/deci.12245
- Zaremba, Boris/Bode, Christoph/Wagner, Stephan M. (2017): New Venture Partnering Capability: An Empirical Investigation Into How Buying Firms Effectively Leverage the Potential of Innovative New Ventures, Journal of Supply Chain Management, Vol. 53, No 1, January, pp. 41-64, doi: external page 10.1111/jscm.12116
- Busse, Christian/Kach, Andrew/Bode, Christoph (2016): Sustainability and the False Sense of Legitimacy: How Institutional Distance Augments Risk in Global Supply Chains, Journal of Business Logistics, Vol. 37, No. 4, pp. 312-328, doi: external page 10.1111/jbl.12143
- Sumo, Regien A. F./van der Valk, Wendy/van Weele, Arjan J./Bode, Christoph (2016): Fostering Incremental and Radical Innovation Through Performance-Based Contracting in Buyer-Supplier Relationships, International Journal of Operations & Production Management, Vol. 36, No. 11, pp. 1482-1503, doi: external page org/10.1108/IJOPM-05-2015-0305
- Zaremba, Boris/Bode, Christoph/Wagner, Stephan M. (2016): Strategic and Operational Determinants of Relationship Outcomes With New Venture Suppliers, Journal of Business Logistics, Vol. 37, No. 2, June, pp. 152-167, doi: external page 10.1111/jbl.12124
- Busse, Christian/Mahlendorf, Matthias D./Bode, Christoph (2015): The ABC for studying the too-much-of-a-good-thing effect: A competitive mediation framework linking antecedents, benefits, and costs, Organizational Research Methods, Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 131-153, doi: external page 10.1177/1094428115579699
- Bode, Christoph and Wagner, Stephan M . (2015): Drivers of Upstream Supply Chain Complexity and the Frequency of Supply Chain Disruptions, Journal of Operations Management, Vol. 36, May, pp. 215-228, doi: external page 10.1016/j.jom.2014.12.004
- Bode, Christoph/Hübner, Denis/Wagner, Stephan M. (2014): Managing Financially Distressed Suppliers: An Exploratory Study, Journal of Supply Chain Management, Vol. 50, No. 4, October, pp. 24-43, doi: external page 10.1111/jscm.12036
- Hofmann, Hannes/Busse, Christian/Bode, Christoph/Henke, Michael (2014): Sustainability-related Supply Chain Risks: Conceptualization and Management, Business Strategy and the Environment, Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 160-172, doi: external page 10.1002/bse.1778
- Wagner, Stephan M. and Bode, Christoph (2014): Supplier Relationship-Specific Investments and the Role of Safeguards for Supplier Innovation Sharing, Journal of Operations Management, Vol. 32, No. 3, March, pp. 65-78, doi: external page 10.1016/j.jom.2013.11.001
- Guérard, Stéphane/Bode, Christoph/Gustafsson, Robin (2013): Turning Point Mechanisms in a Dualistic Process Model of Institutional Emergence: The Case of the Diesel Particulate Filter in Germany, Organization Studies, Vol. 34, No. 5–6, May, pp. 781-822, doi: external page 10.1177/0170840613479237
- Niranjan, Tarikere T./Wagner, Stephan M./Bode, Christoph (2011): An Alternative Theoretical Explanation and Empirical Insights into Overordering Behavior in Supply Chains, Decision Sciences, Vol. 42, No. 4, November, pp. 859-888, doi: external page 10.1111/j.1540-5915.2011.00334.x
- Wagner, Stephan M./Bode, Christoph/Koziol, Philipp (2011): Negative Default Dependence in Supplier Networks, International Journal of Production Economics, Vol. 134, No. 2, December, pp. 398-406, doi: external page 10.1016/j.ijpe.2009.11.013
- Bode, Christoph/Wagner, Stephan M./Petersen, Kenneth J./Ellram, Lisa M. (2011): Understanding Responses to Supply Chain Disruptions: Insights from Information Processing and Resource Dependence Perspectives, Academy of Management Journal, Vol. 54, No. 4, August, pp. 833-856, doi: external page 10.5465/AMJ.2011.64870145
- Bode, Christoph/Lindemann, Eckhard/Wagner, Stephan M. (2011): Driving Trucks and Driving Sales? The Impact of Delivery Personnel on Customer Purchase Behavior, Journal of Business Logistics, Vol. 32, No. 1, March, pp. 99-114, doi: external page 10.1111/j.2158-1592.2011.01009.x
- Wagner, Stephan M./Bode, Christoph/Koziol, Philipp (2009): Supplier Default Dependencies: Empirical Evidence from the Automotive Industry, European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 199, No. 1, November, pp. 150-161, doi: external page 10.1016/j.ejor.2008.11.012
- Wagner, Stephan M. and Bode, Christoph (2008): An Empirical Examination of Supply Chain Performance along Several Dimensions of Risk, Journal of Business Logistics, Vol. 29, No. 1, pp. 307-325, doi: external page 10.1002/j.2158-1592.2008.tb00081.x
- Wagner, Stephan M. and Bode, Christoph (2006): An Empirical Investigation into Supply Chain Vulnerability, Journal of Purchasing & Supply Management, Vol. 12, No. 6, December, pp. 301-312, doi: external page 10.1016/j.pursup.2007.01.004