Christian Hofer
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Also affiliated: TU Wien (2014); University of Groningen (2024–2025); Georgia State University (2021); Universität Innsbruck (2010); Nestlé (Switzerland) (1997); Engineering Systems (United States) (2002); Astronomical Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (2025); Technische Universität Berlin (2019–2021); University of Maryland, College Park (2006–2007)
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Christian Hofer's research focuses on supply chain management and interfirm dynamics. His work investigates how various aspects of supply networks influence competitive behavior and firm performance. This includes examining the impact of supplier inventory strategies, such as leanness, on financial outcomes, and exploring the competitive strategies of third-party logistics providers.
Additional research areas include the role of supply chain representation on corporate boards, the effects of interorganizational imitation within supply chains, and how competitive actions between suppliers and buyers shape procurement decisions. Hofer also studies the influence of supplier innovation on buyer innovation, considering moderating factors like geographic distance and financial interdependence. He has published extensively in this field, with a notable h-index of 22 and over 2,300 citations.
Hofer collaborates with several faculty members at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, including Adriana Rossiter Hofer, Marc Scott, David D. Dobrzykowski, and Stéphanie Thomas, on shared publications. His recent publications span from 2021 to 2024, indicating ongoing activity in his research areas. One publication also touches upon ionospheric contributions to astronomical observations.
Metrics
- h-index: 23
- Publications: 62
- Citations: 2,355
Selected Publications
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Disclosure and transparency in sustainable supply management: is it worth it? (2026)
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Supply Chain Risk and Resolution: An Empirical Study of Stock Market Reactions (2026)
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Minority Identity Signals in a Retail Supply Chain Setting and Consumer Purchase Intentions: The Mediating Role of e‐LSQ Expectations (2025)
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The Path Forward for the <i>Journal of Business Logistics</i> (2025)
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Supply chain representation on the board of directors and firm performance: A balance of relational rents and agency costs (2024)
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“Cultural inventories”: How dimensions of national culture moderate the effect of demand unpredictability on firm-level inventories (2023)
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Competitive actions and supply chain relationships: How suppliers' value‐diminishing actions affect buyers' procurement decisions (2023)
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Supplier inventory leanness and financial performance (2022)
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The impact of supplier innovation on buyer innovation and the moderating effects of geographic distance, financial interdependence and technical similarity (2022)
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Broadening our understanding of interfirm rivalry: A call for research on how supply networks shape competitive behavior and performance (2022)
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Interorganizational imitation in supply chain relationships: The case of inventory leanness (2021)
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A competitive dynamics perspective on the diversification of third-party logistics providers’ service portfolios (2021)
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Consumers care and firms should too: On the benefits of disclosing supplier monitoring activities (2020)
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Do Firms Spend More on Suppliers That Have Environmental Expertise? An Empirical Study of U.S. Manufacturers’ Procurement Spend (2020)
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The Forecasting Challenge for EC-Creamery (2020)
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Top Collaborators
- Supplier inventory leanness and financial performance
- A competitive dynamics perspective on the diversification of third-party logistics providers’ service portfolios
- Supply chain representation on the board of directors and firm performance: A balance of relational rents and agency costs
- Broadening our understanding of interfirm rivalry: A call for research on how supply networks shape competitive behavior and performance
- Interorganizational imitation in supply chain relationships: The case of inventory leanness
- Supplier inventory leanness and financial performance
- Interorganizational imitation in supply chain relationships: The case of inventory leanness
- “Cultural inventories”: How dimensions of national culture moderate the effect of demand unpredictability on firm-level inventories
- A competitive dynamics perspective on the diversification of third-party logistics providers’ service portfolios
- “Cultural inventories”: How dimensions of national culture moderate the effect of demand unpredictability on firm-level inventories
- Broadening our understanding of interfirm rivalry: A call for research on how supply networks shape competitive behavior and performance
- Competitive actions and supply chain relationships: How suppliers' value‐diminishing actions affect buyers' procurement decisions
- Competitive actions and supply chain relationships: How suppliers' value‐diminishing actions affect buyers' procurement decisions
- The impact of supplier innovation on buyer innovation and the moderating effects of geographic distance, financial interdependence and technical similarity
- Supplier inventory leanness and financial performance
- Supply Chain Risk and Resolution: An Empirical Study of Stock Market Reactions
- A competitive dynamics perspective on the diversification of third-party logistics providers’ service portfolios
- A competitive dynamics perspective on the diversification of third-party logistics providers’ service portfolios
- A competitive dynamics perspective on the diversification of third-party logistics providers’ service portfolios
- Broadening our understanding of interfirm rivalry: A call for research on how supply networks shape competitive behavior and performance
- The impact of supplier innovation on buyer innovation and the moderating effects of geographic distance, financial interdependence and technical similarity
- Competitive actions and supply chain relationships: How suppliers' value‐diminishing actions affect buyers' procurement decisions
- “Cultural inventories”: How dimensions of national culture moderate the effect of demand unpredictability on firm-level inventories
- Supply chain representation on the board of directors and firm performance: A balance of relational rents and agency costs
- The Path Forward for the <i>Journal of Business Logistics</i>