Prof. Dr. Fabian J. Sting

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Research

Research interests

Supply chain strategy
Technology and innovation strategy
Project management
Strategy implementaion
Production management
Process innovation

Selected publications

P.B. Cornelius, B. Gokpinar and F. J. Sting (2020). Sparking Manufacturing Innovation: How Temporary Interplant Assignments Increase Employee Idea Values. Management Science, accepted (forthcoming). doi: 10.1287/mnsc.2020.3673
P. Schneider and F. J. Sting (2020). Employees' Perspectives on Digitalization-Induced Change: Exploring Frames of Industry 4.0. Academy of Management Discoveries, accepted (forthcoming). doi: 10.5465/amd.2019.0012
C. Fuchs, F.J. Sting, M. Schlickel and O. Alexy (2019). The Ideator’s Bias: How Identity-induced Self-efficacy Drives Overestimation in Employee-driven Process Innovation. Academy of Management Journal, 62 (5). doi: 10.5465/amj.2017.0438
F.J. Sting, M. Stevens and M. Tarakci (2019). Temporary deembedding buyer-supplier relationships: A Complexity Perspective. Journal of Operations Management, 65 (2), 114-135. doi: 10.1002/joom.1008
P. Crama, Pascale, F.J. Sting and Y. Wu (2019), Encouraging Help across Projects. Management Science, 65 (3), 995-1453. doi: 10.1287/mnsc.2017.2988
A. Chandrasekaran, K. Linderman and F.J. Sting (2018). Avoiding epistemological silos and empirical elephants in OM: How to combine empirical and simulation methods? Journal of Operations Management, (November), 1-5. doi: 10.1016/j.jom.2018.11.003
F.J. Sting and C.H. Loch (2016). Implementing Operations Strategy: How Vertical and Horizontal Coordination Interact. Production and Operations Management, 25 (7), 1177-1193. doi: 10.1111/poms.12537
A. Chandrasekaran, K. Linderman, F.J. Sting and M. Benner (2016). Managing R&D Project Shifts in High-Tech Organizations: A Multi-Method Study. Production and Operations Management, 25 (3), 390-416. doi: 10.1111/poms.12410
J. Mihm, F.J. Sting and T. Wang (2015). On the Eﬀectiveness of Patenting Strategies in Innovation Races. Management Science, 61 (11), 2662-2684. doi: 10.1287/mnsc.2014.2128
F.J. Sting, C.H. Loch and D. Stempfhuber (2015). Accelerating Projects by Encouraging Help. MIT Sloan Management Review, 56 (3), 1-9.
F.J. Sting and A. Huchzermeier (2014). Operational Hedging and Diversiﬁcation under Correlated Supply and Demand Uncertainty. Production and Operations Management, 23 (7), 1212–1226. doi: 10.1111/poms.12196
Y. Kim, F.J. Sting and C.H. Loch (2014). Top-Down, Bottom-Up, or Both? Toward an Integrative Perspective on Operations Strategy Formation. Journal of Operations Management, 32 (7-8), 462–474. doi: 10.1016/j.jom.2014.09.005
F.J. Sting and A. Huchzermeier (2012). Dual Sourcing – Responsive Hedging Against Correlated Supply and Demand Uncertainty. Naval Research Logistics, 59 (1), 69–89. doi: 10.1002/nav.21473
C.H. Loch, F.J. Sting, A. Huchzermeier and C. Decker (2012). Finding the Proﬁt in Fairness. Harvard Business Review, 90 (10), 111–115.
F.J. Sting and A. Huchzermeier (2010). Ensuring Responsive Capacity: How to Contract with Backup Suppliers. European Journal of Operational Research, 207 (2), 725–735. doi: 10.1016/j.ejor.2010.05.044
C.H. Loch, F.J. Sting, N. Bauer and H. Mauermann (2010). How BMW Is Defusing the Demographic Time Bomb. Harvard Business Review, 88 (3), 99–102.

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Teaching

Master

Supply Chain Strategy - Specialisation Module
Supply Chain Innovation - Specialisation Module
Supply Chain Management (CEMS)
Project Management

Bachelor

Supply Chain Management - Strategy and Innovation

Areas of responsibilities

Journal of Operations Management, Special Issue Editor
Production and Operations Management, Senior Editor

CV

Since 2016	Full Professor and Director of Department of Supply Chain Management - Strategy and Innovation, University of Cologne
Since 2019	Chaired Professor of Digital Supply Chain Innovation (part-time), Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2014-2019	Associate Professor (tenured) of Operations Management, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2010-2014	Assistant Professor of Operations Management (granted early tenure), Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2008-2010	Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship in Technology and Operations Management, INSEAD, Technology and Operations Management Department, Fontainebleau, France
2005-2008	Doctorate in Production Management (Dr. rer. pol. summa cum laude), WHU-Otto Beisheim School of Management, Vallendar, Germany
2006	Doctoral studies as visiting scholar, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA Kellog School of Management and McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
2005-2007	M.Sc. in Mathematic - Methods and Models University of Hagen, Germany
2004	Master studies as exchange student University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
2002-2005	Diploma Studies (Master equivalent) with focus on Management Science, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Ingolstadt

UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE

Faculty of Management, Economics and Social SciencesSupply Chain Management Area