Department of Operations Management

Britta Gammelgaard´s overall research interest is Supply Chain Management (SCM) & Logistics. More specifically, topics such as supply chain innovation and strategy, qualitative research in logistics and SCM, competence development, procurement strategies and processes as well as last mile/citylogistics are prioritised research areas. Her work has been published in Danish and international, scientific journals, such as International Journal of Operations and Production Management (IJOPM), Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management (JPSM), International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management (IJPDLM), and Journal of Business Logistics (JBL). Britta has received several awards for her research and research management activities including the Danish Transport Research Award, Hedorfs Fonds Transport-forskningspris.

Professor Gammelgaard is Editor-in-Chief for International Journal of Logistics Management (IJLM) since 2017 and has served for several years as European Editor of Journal of Business Logistics, Associate Editor of Journal of Supply Chain Management (JSCM) and as member of the Editorial Advisory of Journal of Business Logistics. She has guest-edited numerous special issues in logistics and supply chain scientific journals.

In 2023, Britta Gammelgaard was acknowledged as CSCMP Distinguished Fellow. Among the 20 colleagues in the Inaugural Class of fellows, she was one of two non-US based scholars and one out of four women. In 2006 she initiated the CSCMP European Research Seminar/ERS to which she and IJLM are still connected.

Further, Gammelgaard has been a member of the NOFOMA (Nordic Logistics Research Network) Scientific Committee and was the initiator of the NOFOMA doctoral consortium, Nordlog in 1996. She is widely used in Scandinavia for Doctoral assessment committees and has successfully supervised several doctoral candidates.

Presently, Gammelgaard is chairperson of the board of effektivitet.dk and is furthermore member of the editorial team on the trade magazine effektivitet.dk with contributions from both academia and practice. The association organizes the annual Danish Supply Chain Conference.

Britta Gammelgaard is presently coordinator of the Minor in Strategic Procurement on MSc level. Further, she is the CBS academic responsible for the tri-continental bachelor program “Global Supply Chain & Logistics Management” (GLOBAL) that is established in collaboration with University of British Columbia and Chinese University of Hong Kong Shenzhen. In the years 2010-2017, Britta was academic lead of the MSc concentration in Supply Chain Management, and before that for the HD graduate diploma program in SCM.