dr. A.P. (Aline) Seepma
Aline Seepma is an Assistant Professor in the department of Operations at the Faculty of Economics and Business. She completed her PhD ‘Just integrating or integrating justice’ in 2020. As a PhD candidate she has been involved in various research related initiatives (e.g., PhD Research & Learning community initiator and organizer, PhD Council chair).
She is involved in teaching several courses in the Master Program in Supply Chain Management, including Purchasing and Research Methods, as well as supervising master thesis students, honours students and research assistants. In addition, she is involved in various activities related to teaching innovation (e.g., MSc. SCM program committee, MSc. SCM curriculum workgroup committee, Teaching Innovation Grant receiver) and contributes to a safe and valuable academic environment (e.g., diversity & inclusiveness committee member). Aline has been appreciated for her teaching practices through various awards, including the FEB Best Teaching and Learning Award Audience Award, and Jury Award (2024).
She has published her work in multiple peer-reviewed international journals, including Journal of Supply Chain Management, International Journal of Operations and Production Management, Supply Chain Management: an International Journal, Journal of Professions and Organization, and Journal of Strategic Information Systems. She regularly presents her work, chairs sessions and organizes special sessions or tracks at international conferences (e.g., EurOMA Conference). Aline her work has been appreciated through various awards, including Best PhD Thesis Award (FEB, 2020) and Best JSCM Paper Award (2021, JSCM).
Aline her research explores the supply chain management thinking in the public domain. Main research settings that Aline is currently focusing on are justice, refugee, youth care and debt counseling services. These public services are provided by chains of well-intentioned organizations. Still, citizens continuously experience long waiting times, scarce availability of resources, and increased throughput times. Given that these public services have a high impact on the well-being of society, while facing many supply chain management related challenges, better understanding is needed.
She aims to use her research to generate insights, principles and methods for supply chains that have a public aim. She aims to boost the understanding of the inter-organizational management of public services and diminish challenges for public organizations, alleviating burdens for citizens and society.
Aline Seepma has secured funding multiple times in the role of PI, including funding from NEVI and partner organizations for a PhD project on Procurement and collaboration in youth care and, in that context, she works with stakeholders such as Jeugdzorg Nederland, the Netherlands Youth Institute (NJI), VNG-/chain-related actors, regional procurement organizations, municipalities, and care providers. Aline received the 2023 EurOMA Early Career Networking Grant for the project “The European refugee crisis through the lens of OSCM: From crisis response to value creation in refugee supply chains.” together with her co-applicants Nonhlanhla Dube and Isabell Storsjö. An updated overview of her research can be found here.
Aline aims to contribute to the Operations and Supply Chain Management Community in different ways. She has been awarded by the JSCM with the 2025 Community Impact & Engagement Award in relation to her activities part of the ongoing special issue "Towards Novel Ways of doing Qualitative Research in SCM - a developmental initiative". Since 2025 Aline is Associate Editor of the International Journal of Operations and Production Management (IJOPM) and since 2026 Associate Editor of the Journal of Supply Chain Management. Aline is elected board member in the role of treasurer of the European Operations Management Association (EurOMA) since 2023.