Professor and Head of Chair of Sustainability and Supply Chain Management

Prof. Dr. Christian Busse is a Full Professor and holds the Chair for Sustainability and Supply Chain Management at the Carl von Ossietzky University since 2017. He completed his Habilitation at ETH Zurich in 2016, entitled “Perspectives on the Management of Sustainability in Global Supply Chains.” He received his Ph.D. from WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management, Germany in 2010 (graded “summa cum laude”) and holds a master's degree in industrial engineering and management from the Technical University of Berlin that was granted in 2002 (with highest distinction). From 2010 to 2013, he was the responsible project manager for a major research project on sustainable supply chain management at EBS University for Business and Law in Wiesbaden, Germany. Prior to pursuing his Ph.D., he worked as a management consultant for The Boston Consulting Group in Düsseldorf, Germany. In 2019, he declined an offer of a professorship for Supply Chain Management and Production at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. A full curriculum vitae is available here (in German).

His research interests relate to sustainable supply chain management, supply chain risk management, business model innovation, sustainable innovation, the research-practice gap and design science. To date, his research has appeared in Decision Sciences, International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management, Journal of Business Logistics, Journal of Industrial Ecology, Journal of Supply Chain Management, Organizational Research Methods, as well as other journals. A complete list of publications can be found here. Prof. Busse has repeatedly received awards for his research, teaching and reviewing activities.

At Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Prof. Busse teaches courses at all levels on Operations and Supply Chain Management, Sustainability Management and Innovation Management. He has also taught at various institutions in Austria, Bulgaria, Spain, and Switzerland. 

Prof. Busse has been involved in the scientific community for many years as Associate Editor for the Journal of Business Logistics and the Journal of Supply Chain Management. He is also a member of the Editorial Review Board of the Journal of Operations Management. He serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of the International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management.

Since 2024, Prof. Busse has been Chairman of the Board of the Förderverein Wirtschafts- und Rechtswissenschaften e.V., which he intends to expand into a networking platform for researchers, students and committed companies in the northwest region.