TY  - CONF
A1  - Delke, Vincent
A1  - Schiele, Holger
A1  - Buchholz, Wolfgang
T1  - Mind the Gap: Identifying Skill Gaps in Purchasing and Supply Management
T2  - Proceedings 29th IPSERA conference
N2  - Nowadays, the human-centric discipline of purchasing and supply management (PSM) is of strategic importance for firms’ success. Within the discipline, scholars address PSM professionals’ skills and provide practitioners with academic insights. Due to changes in the industry environment, changes in the working environment and the task of purchasing professionals are assumed. This paper aims to contribute to the PSM professional skills literature by defining current PSM professionals’ skill gaps as the difference between the acquired skill level and perceived skill importance. Findings show that current PSM professionals feel to be underqualified to abstract the full potential of professional relationships, as buyer-supplier relationships, due to current PSM professionals’ skill gaps.
Y1  - 2020
UR  - https://www.hb.fh-muenster.de/opus4/frontdoor/index/index/docId/13327
ER  -