Sustainable Innovation: Pushing the Boundaries of Traditional Operations Management

Wassenhove, Luk N. Van

doi:10.1111/poms.13114

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“…In recent years we have seen many calls for operations and supply chain management scholars to increase the relevance of their research (Van Wassenhove, 2019;Tang, 2016;Fisher, 2007) and to do rigorous research that is practice-based and responsible (Lee and Tang, 2018;Gallien et al, 2016). The continuing problem of drug shortages makes it important for the OSCM community to get involved and thereby provides us with a great opportunity: 1) it is a problem that has substantial patient and economic impacts, 2) it poses complex questions for stakeholders to which there is no obvious answer, 3) OSCM scholars are well positioned to help address these questions, and 4) the problem introduces fundamentally new research directions for OSCM and thereby helps us to push the frontiers of our discipline.…”

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Short of drugs? Call upon operations and supply chain management

Vries

Jahre

Selviaridis

et al. 2021

IJOPM

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PurposeThis “impact pathways” paper argues that operations and supply chain management (OSCM) could help address the worsening drug shortage problem in high-income countries. This significant societal problem poses difficult challenges to stakeholders given the complex and dynamic nature of drug supply chains. OSCM scholars are well positioned to provide answers, introducing new research directions for OSCM in the process.Design/methodology/approachTo substantiate this, the authors carried out a review of stakeholder reports from six European countries and the academic literature.FindingsThere is little academic research and no fundamental agreement among stakeholders about causes of shortages. Stakeholders have suggested many government measures, but little evidence exists on their comparative cost-effectiveness.Originality/valueThe authors discuss three pathways of impactful research on drug shortages to which OSCM could contribute: (1) Developing an evidence-based system view of drug shortages; (2) Studying the comparative cost-effectiveness of key government interventions; (3) Bringing supply chain risk management into the government and economics perspectives and vice versa. Our study provides a baseline for future COVID-19-related research on this topic.

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Short of drugs? Call upon operations and supply chain management

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“…Most importantly, given budget constraints and cost burdens, it lacks incentives, or even impossible for the DRS management and suppliers to operate a wide range of reverse systems simply with moral requirements or enforced regulations. Innovative and cost-effective business models for recapturing value or benefits from closing material loops are much more attractive for both academic research and practical applications [11][12].…”

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Disaster Relief Supply Management

Ye¹,

Yan²

2021

Natural Hazards - Impacts, Adjustments and Resilience

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Disaster relief supplies (DRS) play a vital role in natural disaster rescue and relief operations. Often DRS management is initiated and supported by the government, yet the related cost issues have not been fully emphasized. In the face of highly uncertain disaster locations and timing, these supplies are usually prepositioned without proper consumption, which causes enormous waste in practice both economically and environmentally. This chapter highlights the potential to bring the reverse logistics strategies in conventional business practice into DRS management. Incorporating the reverse flow of removed relief items with DRS supply chain management not only benefits in cost reduction and environmental protection, but also enhance the daily management and quality control of DRS. Relying on social trust and efficient marketing network provided by government coordination and international cooperation, the stable quality level and relatively integrated inventories of the removed DRS can achieve economies of scale in the reverse supply chain operations. This chapter aims to develop an understanding of DRS reverse logistics, which energizes the responsible management of DRS for economic, social, and environmental sustainability.

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“…Climate change is accelerating and has incurred more frequent and severe natural disasters (ReliefWeb, 2019). Pursuing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) indeed "are not optional, they are about survival" (Van Wassenhove, 2019). Humanitarian organizations (HOs) operate in often already vulnerable regions, so to them sustainability concerns are particularly pertinent (Pedraza-Martinez et al, 2011).…”

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Designing Sustainable Humanitarian Supply Chains

Chen¹

2020

SSRN Journal

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This is a multidisciplinary study on operationalizing the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in humanitarian operations through supply chain management methods. It is motivated by the belief that for SDGs to be pursued in humanitarian operations, they need to be contextualized in the idiosyncratic settings and approached systematically. Towards this end, this paper develops and operationalizes a strategic sustainable humanitarian supply chain framework using the design science approach. The study starts with analyzing the humanitarian operations characteristics and identifying the critical supply chain capabilities required for sustainable operations. It then re-conceptualizes sustainability in the humanitarian context and proposes a formula of sustainability performance in humanitarian operations. After that, the humanitarian supply chain structural components are delineated and decomposed into operational elements in order to identify the configurations that lead to optimal sustainability performance. The findings then converge into a framework to enable the identification of context-contingent sustainable supply chain strategies in humanitarian operations. This paper makes three contributions to SDG research: 1) it contextualizes sustainability in the humanitarian setting through postulating the concept and formula of net sustainability value as the single bottom line in humanitarian operations; 2) it increases operationality of SDGs in the humanitarian sector through the design of a strategic framework for sustainable humanitarian supply chains; and 3) it increases the interdisciplinarity of SDG research by using a generic supply chain framework that can be applied to integrate multilevel multidisciplinary sustainability studies.

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Sustainable Innovation: Pushing the Boundaries of Traditional Operations Management

Cited by 79 publications

References 72 publications

Short of drugs? Call upon operations and supply chain management

Short of drugs? Call upon operations and supply chain management

Disaster Relief Supply Management

Designing Sustainable Humanitarian Supply Chains

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