Supply Chain Leaders as Change Agents: An Empirical Investigation of SCOMEs' Influence on Organizational Sensemaking

EasyChair Preprint no. 10739

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the role and impact of supply chain leaders on their organization. We leverage structure-as-strategy and upper echelon theory to investigate how and under what conditions supply chain leaders drive systemic change within their organizational confines and across boundaries. In particular, we study a set of 18 Supply Chain and Operations Management Executives that operate at the level of the top management team or board of executives. Our findings highlight both what SCOMEs do within their organizational contexts, as well as how their individual backgrounds shape their sensemaking and shift their attention.

Keyphrases: PSM Strategy, Supply Chain Leadership, systemic change

@Booklet{EasyChair:10739,
  author = {Robert Suurmond and Diogo Cotta and Maximillian Körber},
  title = {Supply Chain Leaders as Change Agents: An Empirical Investigation of SCOMEs' Influence on Organizational Sensemaking},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint no. 10739},

  year = {EasyChair, 2023}}