Implementing Triple Bottom Line Sustainability into Global Supply Chains

The global sustainability challenge is urgent, tremendous and increasing. From an ecological perspective, the current worldwide resource footprint requires approximately 1.5 planets to sustain existing life, and with current usage would require two planets by 2030. The social impact of ever-growing resource use disproportionately affects the world’s poor – the 3 billion people living on less than $2.50 a day, as they struggle to acquire what is needed to survive. The serious ecological and social challenges we face in trying to establish global sustainable supply chains must not be underestimated, yet so far research has largely ignored the social dimension in favour of the environmental and economic. So how can we develop business strategies that move away from a primary economic focus and give equal weight to people, planet and profit? How can we create sustainable supply chains that take a true triple-bottom-line approach? Implementing Triple Bottom Line Sustainability into Global Supply Chains features innovative research, highlighting new cases, approaches and concepts in how to successfully implement sustainability – covering economic, ecological and social dimensions – into global supply chains. The four parts cover the rationale for sustainable global supply chains, key enablers, case studies showing clear implementation steps, and directions for future research and development. This book is a must-read for any academic researching in sustainable supply chain management, procurement or business strategy, and for business leaders seeking cases that will inform a critical step forward for CSR programmes.

Table of Contents:
1. The journey from triple bottom line (TBL) sustainable supply chains to TBL shared value chain design Lydia Bals, University of Applied Sciences Mainz, Germany; Copenhagen Business School, Denmark Wendy L. Tate, University of Tennessee, USA 2. Are we really doing the “right thing”? Anne Touboulic, Cardiff University, UK Ehimen Ejodame, Nigerian Air Force 3.Supply chain resilience Edgar Bellow, NEOMA Business School, France 4. A mixed-methods analysis of the effect of global sustainable supply chain management on firm performance Jean-Paul Meutcheho, Lawrence Technological University, USA 5. Mapping networks and the influence on the natural environment Lisa M. Ellram, Farmer School of Business, Miami University, USA Wendy L. Tate , University of Tennessee, USA 6. Integrating sustainability reporting into global supply chains in Asia and the Pacific Masato Abe and Michelle Chee, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), Thailand 7. The sustainability blind spot Nik C. Steinberg, Four Twenty Seven Climate Solutions 8. Evaluating supply chain networks by incorporating the triple dimensions of sustainability paradigm Anthony Halog and Nga H. Nguyen, University of Queensland, Australia 9. The valorization of social sustainability Claire Moxham, University of Liverpool Management School, UK Katri Kauppi, Aalto University, Finland 10. The role of business schools in developing leaders for triple bottom line sustainability Tim London, Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town, South Africa 11. Sustainable supply chain in a social enterprise Gloria Camacho, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico Mario Vázquez-Maguirre, Universidad de Monterrey, Mexico 12. Sustainable procurement in social enterprises Sreevas Sahasranamam, Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode Christopher Ball, Stirling Management School, UK 13. Sustainable supply chain management and the role of trust at the base of the pyramid (BoP) Sigfried Eisenmeier, Zeppelin University, Germany 14. Addressing the triple bottom line Emily Jervis, Joanne Meehan and Claire Moxham, University of Liverpool Management School, UK 15. Value chain connectedness as a framework for sustainability governance Mark Heuer, Sigmund Weis School of Business at Susquehanna University, USA 16. Sustainable bio-based supply chains in light of the Nagoya Protocol Freedom-Kai Phillips, University of Ottawa, Canada 17. Promoting socially responsible purchasing (SRP) Simon Bartczek, Janjaap Semeijn and Lieven Quintens, Maastricht University School of Business and Economics, The Netherlands 18. Sustainable business model and supply chain conceptions Florian Lüdeke-Freund, University of Hamburg, Germany 19. A network perspective on the TBL in global supply chains Lance W. Saunders, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA Wendy L. Tate, University of Tennessee, USA Joe Miemczyk, Audencia Nantes School of Management, France George A. Zsidisin, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA

About the Author :
LYDIA BALS is Professor of Supply Chain & Operations Management at the University of Applied Sciences Mainz, Germany. WENDY TATE is Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management at the University of Tennessee.