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Investigating demand forecasting practices and challenges in Ghana's Manufacturing Pharmaceutical (MPharma) small and medium enterprises (SMEs): insights and recommendations (2025)
Journal Article

An organisation’s ability to accurately forecast future demand can generate considerable competitive advantage through effective planning, reducing inventory costs, and enhancing customer service. This paper investigates how Manufacturing Pharmaceuti... Read More about Investigating demand forecasting practices and challenges in Ghana's Manufacturing Pharmaceutical (MPharma) small and medium enterprises (SMEs): insights and recommendations.

Knowledge Transformation in Purchasing and Supply Management: A Process Perspective (2025)
Journal Article

To succeed in the face of constantly changing business challenges, Purchasing and Supply Management (PSM) needs to develop strong knowledge management (KM) mechanisms to equip individuals with accurate, reliable, and up-to-date knowledge and has, the... Read More about Knowledge Transformation in Purchasing and Supply Management: A Process Perspective.

JPSM Education Special Issue Editorial (Part I): Innovative Teaching Approaches (2025)
Journal Article

Industry has a constant, if not increasing, demand for professionals with knowledge and competencies in Purchasing and Supply Management (PSM). Universities continue to be a primary source for creating that knowledge and disseminating those insights... Read More about JPSM Education Special Issue Editorial (Part I): Innovative Teaching Approaches.

An analysis of the underrepresentation of procurement skills in senior managers in the construction and housebuilding industries (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper seeks to assess the level of skills and expertise in the construction sectors procurement function and examine the perception on the advantage of adopting these procurement skills in senior management positions

Demystifying Circular Purchasing: Toward a New Procurement Paradigm (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A systematic literature review of the use of AI in negotiation activities (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This systematic literature review analyses 63 papers that research into the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in negotiation activities and processes within the Purchasing and Supply Management (PSM) field. Negotiation is a key PSM activity in whic... Read More about A systematic literature review of the use of AI in negotiation activities.

Decoy, dazzle, deny: how some businesses communicate around controversial issues (2024)
Newspaper / Magazine

Research has identified seven distinct strategies used by companies in controversial industries to communicate on controversial issues

Knowledge sharing in circular procurement management: a case study from the construction industry (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

“We” versus “You”: Exploring the Extent of Gendered Language in Purchasing and Supply Management Job Advertisements (2024)
Journal Article
Kelly, S., Hasche, N., Klézl, V., Marshall, D., & Stek, K. (2024). “We” versus “You”: Exploring the Extent of Gendered Language in Purchasing and Supply Management Job Advertisements. International Journal of Procurement Management, 20(3), 365 - 383. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJPM.2024.138966

This paper explores the use of gendered language in purchasing and supply management job advertisements across three English-speaking countries. We use secondary data from a global job advertisement website to analyse the extent to which gendered lan... Read More about “We” versus “You”: Exploring the Extent of Gendered Language in Purchasing and Supply Management Job Advertisements.

Contractual opportunism in public procurement practice: the three tests (2024)
Presentation / Conference
Vašek, J., Harnach, J., & Kelly, S. (2024, March). Contractual opportunism in public procurement practice: the three tests. Paper presented at The 33rd Annual International Purchasing and Supply Education and Research Association Conference, Rio de Janeiro

Public sector buyers seek to put contracts in place that give them adaptation options and minimise supplier opportunism. However, there is a fine line between hard bargaining and contractual opportunism. This paper investigates this difference throug... Read More about Contractual opportunism in public procurement practice: the three tests.