Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/16258312.2022.2130005
I. Handoko, Mike Bresnen, Y. Nugroho
ABSTRACT This paper unpacks the differential effects of social capital and explores how its distinct dimensions and their dynamic interactions play out over the course of buyer-supplier interaction to influence knowledge exchange. Particular attention is directed towards the impact of cognitive social capital and the effects of shared cognition. Data are reported from a comparative case study investigation of four suppliers in the Indonesian automotive sector, using qualitative interview data collected from 131 participants. The results demonstrate that, whereas appropriate structural mechanisms and relational connections may be necessary to facilitate knowledge exchange, they are insufficient: cognitive social capital instead plays a more pivotal role in promoting knowledge exchange leading to new knowledge generation in supply chains. Practitioners need to be aware of such limitations on the efficacy of structural and relational connections alone and of the value of promoting greater cognitive connectivity between supply chain partners to promote relationship development and knowledge exchange.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/16258312.2022.2102935
Trai Le
ABSTRACT Decoupling – a managerial strategy to buffer a company’s social sustainability policy from its daily business practices in order to minimise the impact on operations – has long been studied in sustainable supply chain management (SSCM). While the SSCM literature offers many examples of buyers’ decoupling, few publications focus on decoupling by suppliers, who are under pressure from buyers to adopt formal structures, i.e. social sustainability policies. There are even fewer studies exploring workers’ claims related to social issues in this regard. Our study, drawing on the concept of policy-practice decoupling, investigates how suppliers navigate the different expectations of buyers and factory-level workers to find ‘decouple-able’ policies when practising social sustainability. We apply the stakeholder salience theoretical lens to analyse 44 interviews from fieldwork in Vietnam to uncover who and what really counts for local supplier managers in selective decoupling. Along with enriching our understanding of decoupling done by local suppliers, our study uncovers the influence of workers on their managers in shaping and reshaping decoupling.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/16258312.2022.2137428
Raphael Lissillour
ABSTRACT The concept of habitus is instrumental in generating sociological understanding of governance and sustainability from an environmental perspective. In this study, the concept has been brought into play to better understand agents’ disposition and conditioning towards sustainable practices in the supply chain. Based on Bourdieu’s formulation of habitus and on prior literature, four theoretical propositions are defined and assessed. A multiple case study in the field of shipping is the focus of this research, intended to shed light on how agents´ habitus conditions the way sustainable development goals, such as climate action and life under water, are practiced in the maritime industry. The results highlight the role of several types of habitus that predispose agents to certain ways of mobilising supply chain material, legal, and institutional assets towards the practice of environmental sustainability. We discuss these findings, stressing the role of boundary objects as instrumental in supporting sustainable practices. Moreover, we discuss the transposition of habitus from one field to another and its implications for sustainable practices in the supply chain. We conclude with the theoretical contributions and practical applications stemming from this research.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/16258312.2022.2138160
Morgane M. C. Fritz, M. Silva, A. Touboulic
Over the last decades, the exploration of sustainability in the context of operations and supply chain management (O&SCM) has become a significant field of research (Touboulic and Walker, 2015). This undoubtedly stems from the fact that the global organising of business operations is responsible for much of the environmental degradation and social exploitation that is witnessed in the world. Yet much of the research to date is still very much rooted in an observation-led paradigm and the field has primarily adopted a narrow focus on sustainability following an instrumental logic (Matthews et al. 2016; Montabon, Pagell, and Wu 2016; Gold and Schleper 2017; Silva, Fritz, and El-Garaihy 2022a), which overshadow the diversity of different possibilities to advance the practice of sustainability and drive lasting change. Practicing sustainability in supply chains (SCs) exceeds focus on a goal itself to consider how actors are performing and learning actions over time as a practice (Silva and Figueiredo 2020). This requires engagement with the reality in which these actors work and interact, and a thorough understanding of the specific and broader contextual dynamics in which they are embedded (Touboulic, McCarthy, and Matthews 2020). Developing sustainability as a practice is about understanding habitus of agents, which considers not only those aspects that are known but also requires defining emerging elements and meanings in order to drive action. It is important to highlight that this reality is changing over time and expectations on how to practice sustainability in SCs are influenced by some important trends in the broader context, such as political aspects or emerging international frameworks, such as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by the United Nations (Fritz and Silva 2018; Fritz 2019). This Special Issue (SI) on practicing sustainability in O&SCM aimed at highlighting a diversity of approaches that not only show the importance of a practice-based perspective but also demonstrate empirically how to practice sustainability in SCs, including how change can be fostered at various levels, and what roles stakeholders may play within and outside the SC. The call for this SI was launched in 2021 in parallel with the 8 International EurOMA Sustainable Operations and Supply Chain Forum conference organised at Excelia Business School, La Rochelle, France. The topic of the conference was ‘Practicing Sustainability in Operations & Supply Chain Management’, which was stimulated by a wish to move the field forward and specify what constitutes a sustainability practice and how to implement sustainability practices along the SC.
在过去的几十年里，在运营和供应链管理(O&SCM)的背景下探索可持续性已经成为一个重要的研究领域(Touboulic和Walker, 2015)。毫无疑问，这源于这样一个事实，即全球商业运作的组织对世界上可见的环境退化和社会剥削负有很大责任。然而，迄今为止的大部分研究仍然植根于以观察为主导的范式，该领域主要采用了工具逻辑(Matthews et al. 2016;Montabon, Pagell, and Wu 2016;Gold and Schleper 2017;Silva, Fritz, and El-Garaihy 2022a)，这掩盖了推进可持续性实践和推动持久变革的不同可能性的多样性。在供应链中实践可持续性超越了对目标本身的关注，而是将参与者如何在一段时间内执行和学习行动作为一种实践(Silva和Figueiredo 2020)。这需要参与到这些参与者工作和互动的现实中，并透彻理解他们所处的具体和更广泛的背景动态(Touboulic, McCarthy, and Matthews, 2020)。将可持续发展作为一种实践是关于理解代理人的习惯，它不仅考虑那些已知的方面，还需要定义新出现的元素和意义，以推动行动。需要强调的是，这一现实正在随着时间的推移而发生变化，对如何在SCs中实践可持续性的期望受到更广泛背景下一些重要趋势的影响，例如政治方面或新兴国际框架，例如联合国的可持续发展目标(sdg) (Fritz and Silva 2018;弗里茨·2019)。本期关于在营运及供应链管理中实践可持续发展的特刊旨在强调各种方法，这些方法不仅显示了以实践为基础的观点的重要性，而且还展示了如何在营运及供应链管理中实践可持续发展，包括如何在各个层面促进变革。以及利益相关者在SC内外可能扮演的角色。2021年，在法国拉罗谢尔Excelia商学院举办的第八届国际EurOMA可持续运营和供应链论坛会议上，发起了这一SI的呼吁。会议的主题是“在运营和供应链管理中实践可持续发展”，会议的目的是希望推动这一领域的发展，并具体说明什么是可持续发展实践，以及如何在供应链上实施可持续发展实践。
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/16258312.2022.2128693
Liliane Carmagnac, Fatiha Naoui-Outini
ABSTRACT Despite practitioners’ and scholars’ increasing awareness of sustainable innovation (SI), studies that integrate sustainability, innovation, practices and supply chains (SCs) are still overlooked in the literature. In contrast to most supply chain management (SCM) research, which has typically focused on the dominant focal companies’ perspective, this qualitative research examines how suppliers’ SIs are diffused along textile and cosmetics SCs. Drawing on practice-based studies and the diffusion of innovation theory, we identify SI diffusion as a practice that comprises three sequential activities (presenting, evaluating and implementing). By conceiving of SI diffusion as a practice, we demonstrate that each of these activities is articulated around practical understanding, ends and emotions. This study contributes to the literature by answering different calls to integrate other theories into the SCM field and to move away from the taken-for-granted meaning of practices. Moreover, it sheds light on suppliers as initiators of SI diffusion. Finally, our main contribution is the focus on emotions in the diffusion process. More specifically, we reveal that sustainability, practices and emotions cannot be dissociated, extending current SCM studies that have focused on the rational dimension.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-09DOI: 10.1080/16258312.2022.2090274
C. K. Upadhyay, Vijayshri Tewari, Vineet Tiwari
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Pub Date : 2022-07-17DOI: 10.1080/16258312.2022.2101898
A. Aliahmadi, H. Nozari
ABSTRACT Today, smart supply chains are one of the main and growing applications of evolving technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), and blockchain, which bring many benefits. IoT and blockchain security is a subset of cybersecurity that protects against IoT-related threats. Therefore, the simultaneous combination of these technologies and the creation of a supply chain based on the artificial intelligence of things (AIoT) and blockchain, in addition to increasing the performance of activities in supply chain processes, can also bring many security challenges to this smart supply chain. Because the data collected by IoT devices and stored in the blockchain-based systems that manage them are much more sensitive than traditional network security strategies.Due to the importance of this issue, in this study, an attempt has been made to analyse these security indicators in the AIoT and blockchain-based intelligent supply chain using a combined decision-making method in a fuzzy neutrosophic environment. Understanding these security measures will definitely help to implement more secure and powerful smart supply chains. The results showed that customer privacy criteria have the highest priority. The following priorities are authentication, Security challenges based on infrastructure, and network integrity.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-27DOI: 10.1080/16258312.2022.2090852
Anupama Panghal, Suyash Manoram, R. Mor, Priyanka Vern
ABSTRACT Streamlining the product movement through blockchain technology helps organisations manage logistics functions more efficiently and gain advantages such as speedy delivery, better traceability, decentralised data, transparency, etc. At the same time, blockchain has many implementation challenges too. This paper empirically examines the factors affecting blockchain technology adoption for reverse logistics in the food processing industry. This research has used the exploratory factor analysis method to derive factors perceived as challenges to adopting blockchain for reverse logistics. The study findings revealed six factors, i.e., lack of resources, cooperation issues between partners, fear of data breach, technology asynchronization, intensive capital requirement, and mishandling of bulk orders, which emerged as significant challenges. Managing identified challenges can help address issues related to adopting blockchain technology for reverse logistics functions and make operations more efficient.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-19DOI: 10.1080/16258312.2022.2090853
Luai Jraisat, Mohannad Jreissat, A. Upadhyay, Ashok Kumar
ABSTRACT This research explores the role of Blockchain Technology (BCT) integrated with Reverse Supply Chain Networks (RSCN) and evaluates the relationship between BCT and sustainability performance. A qualitative research design was employed to develop a conceptual framework for BCT in RSCN. This research collected and analysed primary and secondary data from four cases as focal-actors. These focal-actors are from multi-industries in Jordan, namely food, pharmaceuticals, electronics, and toys. These actors are lead-firms and have experience working with RSCNs and technology applications such as BCT. Primary data were acquired from interviews with managers working in these industries, which were supported by the analysis of secondary data that identified two types of themes: internally focused and externally focused BCT-integrated drivers of RSCNs. The analysis also identified how they leverage sustainability performance improvements, including their use of RSCN approaches and features. This research is one of the few attempts to explore BCT integrated into RSCN for better sustainability performance that contributes to the theoretical and practical knowledge of supply chains within emerging economies. All types of actors-as-stakeholders involved with national programs and projects can adopt the new framework. The key findings contribute to the field of RSCN where the adoption of BCT as a broad-based strategy to attain sustainability goals and reverse chain activities along the supply chain is a goal.
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