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UPM Press, 2016
In supply chain management, sustainability is the idea that business establishment must ensure that markets, commerce, technology, operations, and finance advance in ways that benefit the economies, societies, ecosystems, and stakeholders in general, or at a minimum, do no harm and contribute to a more maintainable and inclusive global economy. The processes should also emphasis on the firm's collaboration with the suppliers, customers and key business partners. Driven by the importance of sustainable development, this book focuses on sustainability issue from supply chain management viewpoints. The cost due to pollution and other damage to the environment that caused by businesses operations should not be underestimated and firms should be made aware and be held responsible for it. As such, it is vital to investigate how business establishment contribute to the sustainability issues in calling for environmental and social contribution. Twelve chapters in this book covers sustainable supply chain issues from the perspectives of Operations, Human Resource, Marketing and societal, and Accounting and Finance.
Achieving Sustainable Supply Chain Through the Creation of Economic Growth, Environmental Protection and Society Progress, 2016
In supply chain management, sustainability is the idea that business establishment must ensure that markets, commerce, technology, operations, and finance advance in ways that benefit the economies, societies, ecosystems, and stakeholders in general, or at a minimum, do no harm and contribute to a more maintainable and inclusive global economy. The processes should also emphasis on the firm's collaboration with the suppliers, customers and key business partners. Driven by the importance of sustainable development, this book focuses on sustainability issue from supply chain management viewpoints. The cost due to pollution and other damage to the environment that caused by businesses operations should not be underestimated and firms should be made aware and be held responsible for it. As such, it is vital to investigate how business establishment contribute to the sustainability issues in calling for environmental and social contribution. Twelve chapters in this book covers sustainable supply chain issues from the perspectives of Operations, Human Resource, Marketing and societal, and Accounting and Finance.
Making Sustainability Sustainable
The vast majority of research and practice regarding sustainable supply chains has followed an instrumental logic, which has led firms and supply chain managers to place economic interests ahead of environmental and social interests. Evidence that firms are attempting to become less unsustainable is mounting, but compensating practices such as offsetting a supply chain’s negative impact on the environment and society do not create truly sustainable supply chains. This conceptual paper seeks to move the field from the question of how can firms merely diminish environmental or social problems to how supply chains can become truly sustainable. To that end, we review the major weaknesses in previous logics and develop an Ecologically Dominant logic where environment and social interests supersede economic interests. To encourage a wider adoption of our perspective, the paper illustrates how the Ecologically Dominant logic can advance practice and research. We do this by providing examples drawn from practice and our previous research and by offering propositions to encourage future research.
A supply chain view of sustainability management
Cleaner Production Letters, 2022
Given the global sustainability challenges facing humans and nature today, this theoretical paper aims to propose a supply chain view of sustainability management and thereby contribute to elevating the sustainable supply chain management field to the level of theory. This is done by identifying supply chain stakeholders and related sustainability challenges, which reveal the inherent paradoxes and tensions in global consumption and production networks. This perspective supports the urgent need for all supply chain stakeholders to understand sustainability challenges and adopt a sustainability mindset. The focus on reducing supply chain disruptions, improving supply chain resilience, and improving supply chain sustainability performance has neglected and even undermined broader sustainability challenges, such as climate change. Therefore, this paper first provides a discussion on the complementarity between stakeholder theory and sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) from a systems perspective; and, second, develops a novel supply chain theory to enhance sustainability management by identifying supply chain stakeholders and related sustainability challenges. Linking stakeholder theory and SSCM facilitates a holistic understanding of sustainability challenges, making it possible to identify opportunities to improve one's decisions, actions, and current consumption and production patterns. Instead of perpetuating a firm-or client-centred perspective, the supply chain view places the product/service at the center of the stakeholder identification process. It clearly identifies stakeholders upstream, within the focal firm, downstream, or outside the supply chain (SC), as well as the related sustainability challenges. It encourages all organizations and individuals to practise their systems thinking skills in order to improve their sustainability mindset and enhance their subsequent ability to solve sustainability and ethical challenges. The proposed supply chain view supports managers, policymakers, educators, consultant, consumers, and individuals in identifying stakeholders and understanding sustainability challenges related to production and consumption effectively. This extends existing knowledge on sustainability management from a supply chain perspective and opens new research areas, particularly for ethical decision-making and behavioural sciences.
Synopsis The call to think and act differently in Sustainable Supply Chain Management (SSCM) is becoming increasingly critical. Pagell and Shevchenko (2014: 44f.) spelled out a clear need for research into the issues of " how to create truly sustainable supply chains " and " what new practices and processes are needed to create truly sustainable supply chains " . This edited collection aims to show innovative cases, approaches and concepts in how to successfully implement all three dimensions of triple bottom line sustainability (e.g. Gimenez et al., 2012; Griggs et al., 2013) into supply chains. Rationale for the book This edited collection will represent interesting and novel research on triple bottom line sustainability as it relates to global and multinational supply chains. Articles that take a true triple bottom line (TBL) perspective are welcomed. Research has mostly focused on the environmental and economic dimension of the triple bottom line, but the soc...
Conceptualizing sustainable development and global supply chains
Ecological Economics, 2012
This paper introduces a holistic approach to the study of sustainable development of global product chains. We first present a number of perspectives on this topic from disciplines such as economic geography, management science, sociology and environmental sciences. Each of these approaches brings in a specific focus: the consequences of geographical dispersion of economic activities, measurement of ecological and social impact, managing sustainability in supply chains, and power asymmetry among economic actors. Until now, these disciplinary research lines have remained unconnected. We argue that ecological economics provides a promising background for a more holistic conceptualization. To this end, we formulate five basic questions that serve to advance the study of sustainability throughout the product chain by connecting the foci of the identified scientific disciplines. The aim of advancing a holistic perspective has guided the selection of papers for this special subsection, which are introduced throughout the text.
Syllabus Sustainable Supply Chains - Prof. Carlos Mena
Sustainability is fast emerging as a major strategic consideration for business leaders. Organisations are increasingly under scrutiny from a range of stakeholders, including, customers, investors, legislators, governments and pressure groups regarding the impact their operations are having on the wider environment and society. Issues such as global warming, depletion of natural reserves, waste management, emerging producer responsibility legislation, air transport, corporate social responsibility reporting are just a few examples of the complex nature of the area.
In Pursuit of a Sustainable Supply Chain
Faculty of Informatics Papers, 2008
The aim of this paper is to provide clues to industry and academia on how best to approach the challenge of developing a sustainable supply chain.
PROFIT, PLANET AND PEOPLE IN SUPPLY CHAIN: GRAND CHALLENGES AND FUTURE OPPORTUNITIES
Recent pressure from governments and customers on supply chain organizations to consider environmental and social issues has increased dramatically. The challenge ahead for supply chain managers is how to grow business profit while protecting the planet and respecting people’s rights. The significance of this issue motivates researchers in the fields of “sustainability” and “supply chain” to further integrate these concepts. To identify affected areas, and how sustainability influences them, this research has employed a literature survey of related papers published between 2012 and 2016 within 16 A* indexed journals that are relevant to Information and Computing Science, Transportation/Freight Services and Manufacturing Engineering. Findings show that sustainable supply chainnetwork structure, impact factors, relationship integration and performance evaluation are the mainresearch topics in these streams. The role of decision-making tools within each discipline, the key methodologies and techniques are discussed. Generally speaking, primary challenges in the sustainable supply chain domain devolve from use of inadequate decision-making tools and inappropriate information systems. The holistic picture presented in this paper is important for helping scholars, system developers, and supply chain analysts to become more aware of current grand challenges and future research opportunities within this field. Keywords: Sustainable Supply Chain, Sustainability, Environmental and Social, Literature Survey