Stefano Ronchi

Core Faculty | Full Professor

Short Profile outline

Stefano Ronchi is Full Professor of Management at Politecnico di Milano. He is also Rector’s Delegate for IDEA League and Alliance4Tech, Director of Management Engineering Programs, and member of the PoliMI 2040 group. He served as Vice-President Academic Partners in UNITECH, member of the Executive Board and Director of MBA Programs and then Corporate Education at Polimi Graduate School of Management. He is currently member and has served in the Executive Board of the International Purchasing and Supply Education and Research Association (IPSERA), and he is reviewer and member of the Editorial Review Board of the Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management (JPSM).

Education

PHD: Supply Chain Management, Politecnico di Milano.

Master of Science: Management Engineering, Politecnico di Milano.

Academic course held at SOM

Gestione e Organizzazione Aziendale

Gestione e Organizzazione Aziendale

Gestione e Organizzazione Aziendale

Gestione e Organizzazione Aziendale

Gestione e organizzazione aziendale

Gestione e organizzazione aziendale

Gestione e organizzazione aziendale

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Gestione aziendale a

Gestione aziendale a

Purchasing And Supply Management

Purchasing And Supply Management

Supplier relationship management lab

Teaching Areas: SUPPLY CHAIN & PURCHASING MANAGEMENT (SCPM)

MBA/EMBA

Specializing Masters

Executive Education

MBA

EMBA

Specializing masters

Research

His major research field is Purchasing and Supply Management with a particular focus on e-Procurement, Spend Management, Purchasing Key Performance Indicators, Purchasing Organization, Supply Chain Finance, and more recently Public Procurement. On these topics he has conducted many research and consulting projects in Italy and abroad and he has published over 100 scientific contributions and a book titled “The Internet and the Customer-Supplier Relationship”, obtaining also scientific awards from the international community. He is a founding member of the International Purchasing Survey, an international research programme focused on the Purchasing and Supply domain.

Relevant Publications

Moretto A.| Patrucco A.S.| Walker H.| Ronchi S. (2020), "Procurement organisation in project-based setting: a multiple case study of engineer-to-order companies", Production Planning and Control

Caniato F.| Harland C.| Johnsen T.| Moretto A.| Ronchi S. (2020), "The Art and Science of Procurement: Revisiting Leonardo da Vinci: Editorial of the 2019 IPSERA Conference Special Issue", Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management, 26

Moretto A.| Grassi L.| Caniato F.| Giorgino M.| Ronchi S., "Supply chain finance: From traditional to supply chain credit rating", Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management, 25, 197-217

Patrucco A.S.| Walker H.| Luzzini D.| Ronchi S., "Which shape fits best? Designing the organizational form of local government procurement", Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management, 25

Haveric S.| Ronchi S.| Cabeza L., "Closer to the state, closer to the polls? The different impact of corruption on turnout among public employees and other citizens", International Political Science Review, 40, 659-675

Zarei M.H.| Carrasco-Gallego R.| Ronchi S., "On the role of regional hubs in the environmental sustainability of humanitarian supply chains", Sustainable Development, 27, 846-859

Zarei M.H.| Carrasco-Gallego R.| Ronchi S., "To greener pastures: An action research study on the environmental sustainability of humanitarian supply chains", International Journal of Operations and Production Management, 39, 1193-1225

Maestrini V.| Luzzini D.| Caniato F.| Maccarrone P.| Ronchi S., "Measuring supply chain performance: a lifecycle framework and a case study", International Journal of Operations and Production Management, 38, 934-956

Maestrini V.| Luzzini D.| Caniato F.| Ronchi S., "Effects of monitoring and incentives on supplier performance: An agency theory perspective", International Journal of Production Economics, 203, 322-332

Maestrini V.| Luzzini D.| Caniato F.| Maccarrone P.| Ronchi S., "The impact of supplier performance measurement systems on supplier performance: A dyadic lifecycle perspective", International Journal of Operations and Production Management, 38, 2040-2061

Ronchi S., "Which Roads (if any) to Social Investment? The Recalibration of EU Welfare States at the Crisis Crossroads (2000-2014)", Journal of Social Policy, 47, 459-478

Ronchi S., "The internet and the customer-supplier relationship", The Internet and the Customer-Supplier Relationship, 1-219

Moretto Antonella;Ronchi Stefano;Patrucco Andrea S., "Increasing the effectiveness of procurement decisions: The value of big data in the procurement process", INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RF TECHNOLOGIES: RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS, 8, 79-103

Patrucco Andrea S.;Luzzini Davide;Ronchi Stefano, "Achieving innovation through supplier collaboration: the role of the purchasing interface", BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT JOURNAL, 23, 1270-1289

Patrucco Andrea S.;Luzzini Davide;Ronchi Stefano;Essig Michael;Amann Markus;Glas Andreas H., "Designing a public procurement strategy: Lessons from local governments", PUBLIC MONEY & MANAGEMENT, 37, 269-276

Patrucco Andrea S.;Luzzini Davide;Ronchi Stefano, "Research perspectives on public procurement: Content analysis of 14 years of publications in the journal of public procurement", JOURNAL OF PUBLIC PROCUREMENT, 17, 229-269

Caniato Federico F. A.;Gelsomino Luca M.;Perego Alessandro;Ronchi Stefano, "Does finance solve the supply chain financing problem?", SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT, 21, 534-549

Patrucco Andrea S.;Luzzini Davide;Ronchi Stefano, "Evaluating the effectiveness of Procurement Performance measurement systems in Local Governments", LOCAL GOVERNMENT STUDIES, 42, 739-761

Spina Gianluca;Caniato Federico F. A.;Luzzini Davide;Ronchi Stefano, "Assessing the use of External Grand Theories in Purchasing and Supply Management research", JOURNAL OF PURCHASING & SUPPLY MANAGEMENT, 22, 18-30

Luzzini Davide;Ronchi Stefano, "Cinderella purchasing transformation: linking purchasing status to purchasing practices and business performance", PRODUCTION PLANNING & CONTROL, 1-10

Caniato Federico F. A.;Elia Stefano;Luzzini Davide;Piscitello Lucia;Ronchi Stefano, "Location drivers, governance model and performance in service offshoring", INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION ECONOMICS, 163, 189-199

Caniato Federico F. A.;Ronchi Stefano;Luzzini Davide;Brivio Olimpio, "Total cost of ownership along the supply chain: A model applied to the tinting industry", PRODUCTION PLANNING & CONTROL, 26, 427-437

Luzzini Davide;Amann Markus;Caniato Federico F. A.;Essig Michael;Ronchi Stefano, "The path of innovation: Purchasing and supplier involvement into new product development", INDUSTRIAL MARKETING MANAGEMENT, 47, 109-120

Caniato Federico F. A.;Luzzini Davide;Ronchi Stefano, "Purchasing performance management systems: an empirical investigation", PRODUCTION PLANNING & CONTROL, 25, 616-635

Karjalainen K.;Brandon-Jones Alistair;Ronchi Stefano;Van Raaij Erik, "Tools without skills: Exploring the moderating effect of absorptive capacity on the relationship between e-purchasing tools and category performance", INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OPERATIONS & PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT, 33, 828-857

Spina Gianluca;Caniato Federico F. A.;Luzzini Davide;Ronchi Stefano, "Past, present and future trends of purchasing and supply management: An extensive literature review", INDUSTRIAL MARKETING MANAGEMENT, 42, 1202-1212

Grants, Awards and Honours

  • Chris Voss Highly Commended Award for the paper "Electronic purchasing tools and purchasing absorptive capacity as antecedents of purchasing category performance", 18th International Conference of EurOMA, 06/07/2011 - to date
  • Emerald Literati Highly Commended Award for the paper "Internet supporting the procurement process: lessons from four case studies", Integrated Manufacturing Systems, 01/09/2004 - to date
  • Harry Boer Best Student Paper Award for the paper "Supplier and Purchasing Function involvement in NPD: what are the effects?", 19th International Conference of EurOMA, 02/07/2012 - to date

Service to the community

  • Programme Director of Managing Engineering Programs, 01/01/2016 - to date

Accreditations, Rankings & Memberships

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