Katri Kauppi

Katri Kauppi

Professori (Associate professor)
E704 Dept. Information and Service Management
Professori (Associate professor)

Katri Kauppi (nee Karjalainen) got her PhD from Helsinki School of Economics in 2009, on the topic of "Challenges of purchasing centralization - Empirical evidence from Public Procurement". She was the youngest female doctor to graduate from the school. After her graduation, she has worked as an Assistant Professor of Operations Management at Manchester Business School, and as an Assistant Professor of Purchasing and Supply Chain Management at Nottingham University Business School. In August 2012 Katri started in the tenure track of Aalto University and she was tenured in 2018.

Katri's research is in the area of purchasing and supply chain management. Her main focus areas include organizational purchasing behavior, information asymmetry issues in supply chains, public procurement (including centralization, non-compliant purchases and services outsourcing), social sustainability in supply chains and climate change risk management.

Full researcher profile
https://research.aalto.fi/...
Phone number
+358504017112

Areas of expertise

Supply Chain Management, Sustainable Supply Chains, Supply Chain Risk Management, Public procurement, Purchasing, Organizational theories

Publications

“If only we'd known”: Theory of supply failure under two-sided information asymmetry

Katri Kauppi, Alistair Brandon-Jones, Erik M. van Raaij, Juri Matinheikki 2024

Realising the promise of value-based purchasing : experimental evidence of medical device selection

Juri Matinheikki, Katie Kenny, Katri Kauppi, Erik van Raaij, Alistair Brandon-Jones 2024

Institutional theory

Katri Kauppi 2022 Handbook of Theories for Purchasing, Supply Chain and Management Research

Making agency theory work for supply chain relationships

Juri Matinheikki, Katri Kauppi, Alistair Brandon–Jones, Erik M. van Raaij 2022