Melanka Hoch

Melanka Hoch is a master student in business with a focus on operations at University of Mannheim in Germany. She is highly interested in topics such as circular economy, sustainable operations and collaborative consumption. Prior to her current studies, she obtained a Bachelor of Science in European business studies with a specialisation on supply chain management as a double degree with the University of Applied Science Aachen, Germany, and the Ecole de Commerce Rennes, France.

As part of her master thesis she will apply choice-based conjoint analysis to analyse consumers’ choices when shopping for clothing. The focus of her work will be on the concept of product as a service/access economy in the context of the clothing industry with the overall intention to make this industry more resource efficient and more sustainable.