About the Book
The way organizations manage their value chain has changed dramatically over the past decade. Today, organizations take account of economic issues, but they also adopt a broader perspective of their purpose including social and environmental issues.
Yet despite its global spread, sustainable value chain management remains an uncertain and poorly defined ambition, with few absolutes. The social and environmental issues that organizations should address easily can be interpreted as including virtually everything. Current literature on the topic seeks to understand the effects and management of initiatives dealing with diversity, human rights, safety, philanthropy, community, and environment. However, the penetration of social and environmental considerations into value chain management is described as `desire lacking reality’ thereby making the idea a patchy success.
The objective of this research anthology is to investigate different angles of sustainable value chain management. The book’s 27 chapters fill holes and explore new fields; the chapters are organised in five sections: Sustainable value chains - context, drivers, and barriers; Sustainable value chains - managing activities; Sustainable value chains - managing networks and collaboration; Sustainable value chains - integrative perspectives; and Sustainable value chains - specific sectorial and industry perspectives.
Table of Contents:
Contents: Foreword; Part I Sustainable Value Chains: Context, Drivers, and Barriers: Environmental sustainability in the supply chain: a review of past literature and discussion of potential drivers and barriers, Robert E. Hooker, Diane Denslow and Larry C. Giunipero; Sustainable procurement, institutional context and top management commitment: an international public sector study, Helen Walker and Stephen Brammer; Public policy and the corporate social responsibility of value chain management of environmental research and development, John T. Scott; Human rights in the value chain, Emily F. Carasco and Jang B. Singh; The growth of private regulation of labor standards in global supply chains: mission impossible for Western small and medium-sized firms?, Jette Steen Knudsen; Supply chain themes on corporate social responsibility reports, Wendy L. Tate, Jon F. Kirchoff and Lisa M. Ellram. Part II Sustainable Value Chains: Managing Activities: Aligning goals and outcomes in sustainable supply chain management, Dayna Simpson and Damien Power; Setting a framework for life cycle assessment in sustainable technology development, Stelvia Matos and Jeremy Hall; Creating socially responsible and environmentally sustainable IT-enabled supply chains, Ian M. Langella, Jerry Carbo and Viet Dao; Social and environmental responsibility, sustainability, and human resource practices, Wendy S. Becker and Richard Smith; Using codes of conduct to help SMEs manage supply chains: the case of SA8000, Francesco Ciliberti and Job de Haan; Environmental standards and certifications in a value chain perspective: NGOs’ view on the legitimacy of the process, Martin Müller, Stefan Seuring and Virginia Gomes dos Santos; Applying economic non-market valuation for sustainable supply chain performance measurement and evaluation, Joseph Sarkis, Aref Aghaei Hervani and Marilyn Helms. Part III Sustainable Value Chains: Managing Networks and Collaboration: Green offerings and buyer-supplier collaboration in value chains, P. Matthyssens and W. Faes; Multi-stakeholder initiatives in cotton value chains: towards a theoretical framework and a methodology, Peter Lund-Thomsen; Barriers and facilitators to developing sustainable networks: UK local and regional food, Martin Hingley and Adam Lindgreen; Incorporating impoverished communities in sustainable supply chains, Jeremy Hall and Stelvia Matos; Learning to improve or deceive? Chinese supplier responses to MNC codes of conduct, Niklas Egels-Zandén; Understanding resilience of complex value-chain networks, Jeryang Park, Thomas P. Seager and P. Suresh C. Rao. Part IV Sustainable Value Chains: Integrative Perspectives: Ever expanding responsibilities: upstream and downstream corporate social responsibility, Judith Schrempf-Stirling, Guido Palazzo and Robert A. Phillips; Meta-management of corporate social responsibility, Muhammad Asif, Cory Searcy and Olaf A.M. Fisscher; When the social movement and global value chain literatures meet: the case of fair trade, Natalia Aguilar Delgado and Luciano Barin Cruz. Part V Sustainable Value Chains: Specific Sectorial and Industry Perspectives: Contributing to a more sustainable coffee chain: projects for small farmers instigated by a multinational company, Ans Kolk; Corporate social responsibility in the bank value chain, Bert Scholtens; Sustainability in value chains: empirical evidence from the Greek food sector, George Maglaras, Michael Bourlakis and Christos Fotopoulos; Standardizing sustainability: certification of Tanzanian biofuel smallholders in a global value chain, Henny Romijn, Sanne Heijnen and Saurabh Arora; Sustainability in humanitarian organisations, Ira Haavisto and Gyöngyi Kovács; Index.
About the Author :
Dr Adam Lindgreen is Professor of Marketing at Cardiff Business School, with a Ph.D. from Cranfield University. He is widely published, in academic journals and books including Managing Market Relationships and A Stakeholder Approach to Corporate Social Responsibility. Dr Francois Maon is Associate Professor of Strategy and Corporate Social Responsibility at the IESEG School of Management, with a Ph.D. from the Louvain School of Management. He is widely published in academic journals and books including A Stakeholder Approach to Corporate Social Responsibility. Dr Joelle Vanhamme is Professor of Marketing at Edhec Business School with a Ph.D. from the Louvain School of Management. She is widely published in academic journals and books including Memorable Customer Experiences and A Stakeholder Approach to Corporate Social Responsibility. Dr Sankar Sen is Professor of Marketing at Baruch College, City University of New York with a Ph.D. from the Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania). He is widely published in academic journals and books including Leveraging Corporate Responsibility: The Stakeholder Route to Maximizing Business and Social Value. Robert E. Hooker, Diane Denslow, Larry C. Giunipero, Helen Walker, Stephen Brammer, John T. Scott, Emily F. Carasco, Jang B. Singh, Jette Steen Knudsen, Wendy L. Tate, Jon F. Kirchoff, Lisa M. Ellram, Dayna Simpson, Damien Power, Stelvia Matos, Jeremy Hall, Ian M. Langella, Jerry Carbo, Viet Dao, Wendy S. Becker, Richard Smith, Francesco Ciliberti, Job de Haan, Martin Muller, Stefan Seurin, Virginia Gomes dos Santos, Joseph Sarkis, Aref Aghaei Hervani, Marilyn Helms, P. Matthyssens, W. Faes, Peter Lund-Thomsen, Martin Hingley, Adam Lindgreen, Niklas Egels-Zanden, Jeryang Park, Thomas P. Seager, P. Suresh C. Rao, Judith Schrempf-Stirling, Guido Palazzo, Robert A. Phillips, Muhammad Asif, Cory Searcy, Olaf A.M. Fisscher, Natalia Aguilar Delgado, Luciano Barin Cruz, Ans Kolk, Bert Scholtens, George Maglaras, Michael Bourlakis, Christos Fotopoulos, Henny Romijn, Sanne Heijnen, Saurabh AroraIra Haavisto, Gyongyi Kovacs.
Review :
'The last two decades have seen the growing recognition in business that social and environmental problems are increasingly business problems. Initially, it was in the sectors most obviously affected, such as the resource-extraction industries, now it is becoming widely taken for granted as businesspeople in many sectors come to see how their companies affect and are affected by forces such as climate change, resource scarcity, and population growth. As this research anthology makes amply clear, value chains are key to an effective response by companies to many of these sustainability challenges, and organizations are now starting to give attention to sustainability in managing their value chains. Drawing on a wide range of different geographical and industry perspectives, this rich collection of articles provides a basis for deeper understanding of both the sustainability challenges in value chains and the business opportunities.' N. Craig Smith, INSEAD, Fontainebleau Cedex, France
