Thorsten BleckerThorsten Blecker is a full professor at the Hamburg University of Technology, Department for Business Logistics and General Management (5-11). He holds a master’s degree in business administration (with honors) and a PhD (summa cum laude) from the Unversity of Duisburg, Germany. He finished his habilitation thesis in September, 2004, at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria. Blecker is guesteditor of a special issue of IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management on “Mass Customization Manufacturing Systems” (forthcoming by 2007), co-editor and author of several books, for example, “Production/Operations Management in Virtual Organizations”, “Enterprise without Boundaries”, “Competitive Strategies”, “Web-Based Manufacturing” and “Information and Management Systems for Product Customization”. His main research interests include business logistics and supply chain management, production/operations management, industrial information systems, Internet-based production systems, mass customization manufacturing systems, strategic management, and virtual organizations. Read More Read Less