Lydia Bals is Head of the department Procurement Solutions (e.g. Procurement Strategy, Risk Management, Sustainability, Organisation and Processes) at Bayer CropScience's Global Procurement. Prior to that she worked as a Project Manager at Bayer Business Consulting, Germany. She is a Visiting Scholar at SMG since 2008. She obtained her Doctoral Degree from EBS European Business School, Germany and made research visits at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and at Columbia Business School, Columbia University, United States.

Refereed journal publications 
Tate, Wendy/Ellram, Lisa/ Bals, Lydia/Hartmann, Evi/ Van der Valk, Wendy (2010): An Agency Theory Perspective on the Purchase of Marketing Services, in: Industrial Marketing Management, Volume 39, Issue 5, pp. 806-819.
 
Bals, Lydia/Hartmann, Evi/Ritter, Thomas (2009): Barriers of Purchasing Involvement in Marketing Service Procurement. in: Industrial Marketing Management, Volume 38, Issue 8, pp. 892-902
 
Tate, Wendy/Ellram, Lisa/ Bals, Lydia/Hartmann, Evi (2009): Offshore Outsourcing of Services: An evolutionary perspective, in: International Journal of Production Economics, Volume 120, Issue 2, pp. 512-524.
 
Trautmann, Gerhard/Bals, Lydia/ Hartmann, Evi (2009): Global Sourcing in Integrated Network Structures: The Case of Hybrid Purchasing Organizations. in: Journal of International Management, Volume 15, Issue 2, pp. 194-208.
 
Trautmann, Gerhard/ Turkulainen, Virpi/ Hartmann, Evi/ Bals, Lydia (2009): Integration in the Global Sourcing Organization: An information processing perspective. Journal of Supply Chain Management, Volume 45, Issue 2, pp. 57-74.
 
Schmidberger, Stephan/Bals, Lydia/Hartmann, Evi/Jahns, Christopher (2009): Development of a Performance Measurement System for the Benchmarking of Ground Handling Services at European Hub Airports, in: International Journal of Production Economics, Volume 117, Issue 1, pp. 104-116.
 
Hartmann, Evi/Bals, Lydia/Kaiser, Gernot (2008): The Impact of Internal Purchasing Resources and Capabilities on Low-cost Country Sourcing, in: Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft (Journal of Business Economics), Volume 78, Issue 4, pp. 31-54.
 
Jahns, Christopher/Hartmann, Evi/Lockström, Martin/Bals, Lydia (2007): The Quest for Competitive Advantage: Empirical Evidence of the Role of Resources in a Global Sourcing Context, in: Die Unternehmung (Swiss Journal of Business Research and Practice), Volume 61, Issue 3, pp. 213-226.
 
Jahns, Christopher/ Hartmann, Evi/ Bals, Lydia (2006): Offshoring: Dimensions and diffusion of a new business concept, in: Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management, Volume 12, Issue 4, pp. 218-231.

 

Book/book chapter publications

 Bals, Lydia/Kneis, Kyra-Constanze/Christine Lemke/Pedersen, Torben (forthcoming): Towards a Flexible Breathing Organization: R&D Outsourcing at Bayer. In “The Offshoring Challenge: Strategic Design and Innovation for Tomorrow’s Organization” Torben Pedersen, Lydia Bals, Peter Oerberg-Jensen and Marcus Moeller-Larsen (Eds.). Springer.

Bals, Lydia (forthcoming): Climate Change’s Impact on Procurement: Risks and Opportunities. In “Managing climate change business risks and consequences: Leadership for global sustainability” Jim Stoner and Charles Wankel (editors). Palgrave-MacMillan.

Pedersen, Torben/Bals, Lydia/Oerberg-Jensen, Peter/Moeller-Larsen, Marcus (eds., forthcoming): The Offshoring Challenge: Strategic Design and Innovation for Tomorrow’s Organization. Springer.

Bals, Lydia (2010): Einkauf von Marketingdienstleistungen – Identifikation und Systematisierung von Optimierungspotenzialen, 2. überarbeitete und erweiterte Auflage, Verlag Wissenschaft und Praxis; St. Gallen.

Moscho, Alexander/Bals, Lydia/Kämper, Matthias/Neuwirth, Stefan (2010): Implementing Change Management Successfully – Reinventing an Innovation Company: The Bayer Case, in: A. Gerybadze, U. Hommel, H.W. Reiners, D. Thomaschewski (Eds.): Innovation and Corporate Growth – Strategy, Processes and Performance; Springer.

Moscho, Alexander/Bals, Lydia/Neuwirth, Stefan/Tobies, Isabel (2009): Aufbau und Etablierung eines professionellen Inhouse Consulting in einem globalen Konzern, in: Moscho, Alexander/Richter, Ansgar (Hrsg.): Inhouse-Consulting in Deutschland. Markt, Strukturen, Strategien; pp. 31-50; Gabler; Wiesbaden.

 
Bals, Lydia/Hartmann, Evi/Jahns, Christopher (2009): Purchasing Marketing Services - Optimization Issues and Priorities, in: D. Specht (Ed.): Weiterentwicklung der Produktion, Gabler: Wiesbaden, pp. 143-158.
 
Bals, Lydia (2008): Sourcing of Services: International Aspects and Complex Categories, dissertation, Gabler; Wiesbaden.
 
Bals, Lydia/Hartmann, Evi (2008): Sourcing of Services, Nova Science Publishers, Inc.; New York.
 
Bals, Lydia/Hartmann, Evi/Gruner, Jean Raoul (2008): Management of the Innovation Process: A Comparison of Theoretical and Practical Approaches, in: Dieter Specht (Ed.): Produkt- und Prozessinnovationen in Wertschöpfungsketten, Gabler: Wiesbaden, pp. 125-162.
 
Jahns, Christopher/Hartmann, Evi/Bals, Lydia (2007): Offshoring – Analyse der Hintergründe und Potenziale, in Dieter Specht (Ed.): Insourcing, Outsourcing, Offshoring, Beiträge zur Produktionswirtschaft, Gabler: Wiesbaden, pp. 85-106. 
 
Hartmann, Evi/Bals, Lydia (2007): Focus Study Report Einkauf von Marketingdienstleistungen, Verlag Wissenschaft und Praxis, St. Gallen. 
 
Blaj, Lydia (2005): Einkauf von Marketingdienstleistungen – Identifikation und Systematisierung von Optimierungspotenzialen, Verlag Wissenschaft und Praxis, St. Gallen.