TY - CONF A1 - Stek, Klaas A1 - Zunk, Bernd Markus A1 - Delke, Vincent A1 - Schiele, Holger T1 - Addressing the gap between employees’ needs and learning objectives in purchasing & supply management (PSM study programs; a student-centered learning approach T2 - Proceedings 12th INTED conference N2 - This paper focusses on effective teaching and learning methods in the context of a larger project that aims to align objectives in higher education with employer requirements in the field of purchasing and supply management (PSM). The reason is that little is known about which specific skills and competencies of PSM professionals are needed outside academia and which learning objective higher education should incorporate to meet the practical PSM requirements of firms and organisations. Practice as well as literature share the understanding that PSM professionals need a well-balanced mixture of knowledge and soft-skills: the merely explicit know-what (codified knowledge), know-why (theory), know-how (method) and inter- & intrapersonal soft skills. Y1 - 2018 UR - https://www.hb.fh-muenster.de/opus4/frontdoor/index/index/docId/13324 CY - Valencia, Spain ER -