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A paper that provides strong theoretical and practical insights into the important phenomenon of supplier involvement in new product development has won the Best Empirical Paper Award from the Journal of Supply Chain Management. The award was announced at its annual awards session at the Academy of Management virtual meeting in August. Professor Finn Wynstra, Professor of Purchasing and Supply Management of Rotterdam School of Management Erasmus University (RSM) worked with Dr Robert Suurmond and Prof. Jan Dul on Unraveling the Dimensions of Supplier Involvement and their Effects on NPD Performance: A Meta-Analysis.

In his dissertation 'How firms cope with digital revolution' Mohammad Taghi Ramezan Zadeh presented three studies of the firms’ strategy and organization in developing and adopting digital technological innovations. In this dissertation, the boundary conditions of the current theories in the digital era were identified, and new theories were developed and tested. Consequently, recommendations were provided for practice. Avenues for future research were also suggested.