<b>OM Forum</b>—Sustainable Operations Management: An Enduring Stream or a Passing Fancy?

Drake, David F.; Spinler, Stefan

doi:10.1287/msom.2013.0456

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“…Elliot (2001) has argued the role of operations management in sustainability, whereas in a later study Drake and Spinler (2013) have argued that the future role of operations management needs to address issues related to the 3Ps, that is, planet, people and profit. Gupta (1995) have discussed the need for aligning environmental strategy with operations strategy.…”

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“…The concept of 'sustainable operations management' has gained serious considerations due to scarce natural resources and rapid change in climate and increasing social inequality, which forced enterprises to revisit their operations management practices to address 3Ps, that is, planet, people, and profit (Drake and Spinler, 2013). Since the 1980s Kunreuther and Kleindorfer (1980) have argued how operations management practices can contribute towards sustainability.…”

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Formulating and solving sustainable stochastic dynamic facility layout problem: a key to sustainable operations

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Abstract:Facility layout design, a NP Hard problem, is associated with the arrangement of facilities in a manufacturing shop floor, which impacts the performance, and cost of system. Efficient design of facility layout is a key to the sustainable operations in a manufacturing shop floor. An efficient layout design not only optimizes the cost and energy due to proficient handling but also increase flexibility and easy accessibility. Traditionally, it is solved using meta-heuristic techniques. But these algorithmic or procedural methodologies do not generate effective and efficient layout design from sustainable point of view, where design should consider multiple criteria such as demand fluctuations, material handling cost, accessibility, maintenance, waste and more. In this paper, to capture the sustainability in the layout design these parameters are considered, and a new Sustainable Stochastic Dynamic Facility Layout Problem (SDFLP) is formulated and solved. SDFLP is optimized for material handling cost and rearrangement cost using various meta-heuristic techniques. The pool of layouts thus generated is then analyzed by Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to identify efficient layouts. A novel hierarchical methodology of consensus ranking of layouts is proposed which combines the multiple attributes/criteria. Authors' Reply to Reviewers' CommentsWe are grateful to the reviewers for their insightful observations which have significantly improved our manuscript. We hope that the revised version of the paper addresses all issues and queries raised by the reviewers, and our responses to both the reviewers' comments are provided below.Authors' reply to Reviewer # 1 Overall comment:This paper proposes a methodology to solve the SDFLP from a sustainable perspective. The methodology is mainly composed of generating alternative layouts for FLP by SA and CSA, identifying efficient layouts by EDA, and ranking the layouts based on the AHP, the TOPSIS and the Consensus Ranked method.However, there exist many shortcomings that impede the acceptance of the paper Response:We are thankful to the reviewer for the insightful comment. We have strictly followed the suggestions to remove the shortcomings from the revised paper and have incorporated all the suggestions/comments raised by the reviewer # 1 in the revised manuscript. The detailed responses for each comment are provided below. Comment # 1:All the applied methods have been widely used in the workshop facility layout planning.The authors claim to solve the FLP from a sustainable perspective; however, a simple integration of all the methods is not enough. The generation of layouts is the most crucial part for obtaining a sustainable layout for the facility layout problem. As far as I know, much practical constraints can be converted into the "objective functions" or "constraints" when establishing mathematical NP-hard models and applying meta-heuristics to obtain the alternative layouts. If the authors can add more restrictions in the first step, the complexity of the followi...

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Formulating and solving sustainable stochastic dynamic facility layout problem: a key to sustainable operations

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“…Sustainability is the development of the ability to meet the needs of contemporary people without endangering the ability of future generations to meet their needs. It is also the common economic, social, and environmental goal of human beings, which are interdependent and complementary [1][2][3][4][5][6]. Social responsibility refers to the responsibility that an organization undertakes for the influence of its decision-making and paper will use an empirical analysis method to explore these effects of sustainability orientations of corporations on consumers' sustainability quality perception and trust.…”

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Truly Sustainability or Hypocrisy: The Effects of Corporate Sustainable Orientation on Consumers’ Quality Perception and Trust Based on Evidence from China

Liang

Meng

2020

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Sustainable initiatives have been widely fulfilled by corporations, which can acquire better reputations by performing environmental, social, and economic responsibilities. However, if a corporation’s propaganda about sustainable orientation is contrary to the actual action, or even does not have a clear orientation, then it may also fall into the reputation of hypocrisy. In this study, from the perspective of consumer behavior and based on the moral responsibility theory of corporate sustainability, we identify six types of sustainable corporations by their orientations toward sustainability, including value, goals, and structure. We empirically examine their direct effects on consumers’ sustainable quality perception and trust, as well as the moderating effects of corporate social responsibility associations and consumer–corporation identity. Data are collected in China; 203 adults participated in the survey. The results reveal that the types of sustainable goals and structure have a significant effect on consumers’ sustainable quality perception and trust. Furthermore, consumers’ perception is also positively associated with their trust in a corporation. Moreover, the consumer–corporation identity negatively moderates the relationship between perception and trust. These findings also bring theoretical and practical insights for governments and corporations.

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“…As economy and society develop, green production has attracted wide attention from all circles of the society [1]. For instance, many conferences with the theme of 'green' or 'sustainable' have been held around the world, such as the United Nations Summit on Sustainable Development 2015, Rio +20 Summit, International Conference on Sustainable Development 2018, and others [2,3].…”

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Impacts of Green Production Decision on Social Welfare

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As an important approach of achieving sustainable development, green production plays a significant role in improving the ecological environment and total social welfare. In order to clarify the impacts of green production on social welfare favorably, this paper assumes that there are two types of consumers in the market: the green and the brown. Green consumers have green preference, focusing on the environmental and physical attributes of products; while brown consumers only value the physical attributes. We have obtained some intriguing conclusions through the use of the Hotelling model, as follows: (i) The total social welfare will benefit from green production. Meanwhile, we also find that the social welfare is likely to reach the highest value in scenario BG (i.e., both enterprises implement green production) or scenario SG (i.e., only one enterprise implements green production). (ii) Moreover, the total social welfare is always positively related to the degree of consumer green preference and unit of environmental benefit parameters in scenario SG and scenario BG. (iii) Finally, in scenario BG, the proportion of green consumers has a positive effect on the total social welfare, while only when certain conditions are satisfied, the higher proportion of green consumers will benefit the social welfare in scenario SG. Our findings can provide useful managerial insights for policy-makers in the development of green production.

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OM Forum—Sustainable Operations Management: An Enduring Stream or a Passing Fancy?

Cited by 144 publications

References 59 publications

Formulating and solving sustainable stochastic dynamic facility layout problem: a key to sustainable operations

Formulating and solving sustainable stochastic dynamic facility layout problem: a key to sustainable operations

Truly Sustainability or Hypocrisy: The Effects of Corporate Sustainable Orientation on Consumers’ Quality Perception and Trust Based on Evidence from China

Impacts of Green Production Decision on Social Welfare

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