Sustainable supply chain management and decision theory : a qualitative exploration using planetary boundaries and social foundations
Sustainable supply chain management and decision theory : a qualitative exploration using planetary boundaries and social foundations
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2016
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Anthony Alexander
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该研究认为，使用可持续供应链管理（SSCM）的政策作为一种手段，以建立一个桥梁之间的微观规模的个别企业的运作和宏观规模的生态和社会影响（称为克莱因多弗的挑战）。定性案例研究是在不同的经济部门进行的，这些部门确定了具体的宏观挑战，这些挑战被视为可持续性的更准确和最新定义。这项研究假设了由Rockstrom和Steffen等人领导的环境科学家开发的plaentary boundaries（PB）框架，社会基础（SF）框架，从国际发展，由Raworth & Leach等人定义的基础上使用的定义。八家公司分为五个案例研究进行深入调查，他们如何将自己的活动，通过他们的SSCM政策和他们面临的障碍，可持续发展的结果。为了理解知识的性质与不确定性在每个公司，决策理论的可持续发展的背景下，采用和阐述。特别是，斯诺登的Cynefin框架和Keeney的价值为中心的决策分析采用的主导逻辑为每个公司的方面。这塑造了他们的决策能力，当面临各种外部压力（特别是来自立法，投资者和客户需求）的情况下，在交付SSCM的复杂性和模糊性。由此产生的证据通知一个模型的实质性的可持续性，即公司与实质性的影响，从那些没有实质性的影响，在PB+SF frameworks。这有助于企业认识到他们应该在多大程度上关注可持续性问题，一些企业的既定目标与实际影响力脱节，而其他具有重大影响力的企业则没有得到学术界和实践界的充分关注。
The research considers the use of sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) policies as a means to forge a bridge beween the micro scale of individual firm operations and the macro scale of ecological and societal impact(referred to as Kleindorfer's Challenge). Qualitative case study research is undertaken across different economic sectors identified with specific macro-scale challenges that are taken as a more precise and up-to-date definition for sustainability. This research assumes the plaentary boundaries (PB) framework, developed by environmental scientists led by Rockstrom & Steffen et al., and the social foundations (SF) framework, from international development, defined by Raworth & Leach et al. as the basis of the definition used. Eight firms grouped into five case studies are subjected to in-depth investigation into how they relate their own activities to sustainabiity outcomes via their SSCM policy and the barriers they face. To understand the nature of knowledge versus uncertainty within each firm, decision theory is adopted and elaborated in the context of sustainability. In particular, Snowden's Cynefin framework and Keeney's value-focussed decision analysis are adopted as aspects of the dominant logic for each firm. This shapes their decision making abilities when faced with complexities and ambiguities in delivery SSCM in the context of various external pressures (notably from legislative, investor and customer demands). The resulting evidence informs a model of substantive sustainability, whereby firms with substantive impacts are distinguished from those without substantive impacts, in terms of the PB+SF framemworks. This helps firms realise the extent to which they should be concerned about sustainability issues, with some firms having a disconnect between their stated goals and their actual influence, and other firms with substantial impacts receiving insufficient attention from academia and practice.