Sustainable supply chain models for base of the pyramid

Bendul, Julia C.; Rosca, Eugenia; Pivovarova, Darima

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.11.001

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“…We consider such a social intermediary more resourceful and well placed to bridge the economic, cultural, and social divide between formal and informal markets through long-term management of a SSC in a bottoms up effort. Furthermore, we consider this focal position of the social intermediary to be a distinguishing characteristic between BoP and top of the pyramid markets (Bendul, Rosca, & Pivovarova, 2016). Coase (1960), in his seminal article entitled The Problem of Social Cost, identified four solutions for addressing externalities:…”

Section: Theory Development: Social Intermediaries In Bop Communitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Bottoms up: Delivering sustainable value in the base of the pyramid

2020

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Despite a wealth of expertise involving leading institutions over at least 15 years, a base of the pyramid (BoP) model resulting in scalability has yet to emerge. We posit that institutional gaps between BoP goals of developing human and social capital on one hand and a short‐term profit focus of business on the other contribute to the lack of scalability. We address this gap by proposing a social intermediary to link the BoP with firms involved in the BoP. The social intermediary will coordinate and interpret the informal market requirements of the BoP to the firm in a “bottoms up” approach. We illustrate the bottoms up approach through a case involving Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit, a German government agency, with the garment manufacturing industry in Pakistan. The case study involves implementation of labor standards and productivity in the Pakistan garment industry, resulting in improved productivity and labor standards enabling garment manufacturers to access global supply chains.

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Section: Theory Development: Social Intermediaries In Bop Communitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Bottoms up: Delivering sustainable value in the base of the pyramid

2020

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“…Hubbard found that “although there seems to be widespread acceptance in the business world that firms have social responsibilities, a commonly accepted standard of measuring social performance is a long way off (Hubbard, , p. 185).” The focus continues to be on environmental issues (see De Marchi, Di Maria, & Micelli, , for example), at the expense of “social” sustainability issues (e.g., social, cultural, and other more normative dimensions). While looking at research on corporate sustainability, Kourula and colleagues found a “relatively minimal focus on human wellbeing for all and on empowerment of the marginalized (Kourula et al, , p. 16).” Bottom of the pyramid thinking (Prahalad, ) has promise for bringing the social side into corporate sustainability efforts, but even over a decade and a half after its introduction, there is still a lack of objective assessment approaches (Kolk, Rivera‐Santos, & Rufin, ), and the integration of bottom of the pyramid with sustainability more broadly is just beginning (Bendul, Rosca, & Pivovarova, ). Missimer, Robert, and Broman () have recently proposed science‐based social sustainability principals for enterprises, a key step forward.…”

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“…16)." Bottom of the pyramid thinking (Prahalad, 2006) has promise for bringing the social side into corporate sustainability efforts, but even over a decade and a half after its introduction, there is still a lack of objective assessment approaches (Kolk, Rivera-Santos, & Rufin, 2013), and the integration of bottom of the pyramid with sustainability more broadly is just beginning (Bendul, Rosca, & Pivovarova, 2016…”

Section: Opportunity: Social Sustainabilitymentioning

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Harnessing the Sustainable Development Goals for businesses: A progressive framework for action

Redman

2018

Bus Strat Dev

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Businesses, as with other sectors in society, are not yet taking sufficient action towards achieving sustainability. The United Nations recently agreed upon a set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which if properly harnessed, provide a framework (so far lacking) for businesses to meaningfully drive transformations to sustainability. This paper proposes to operationalize the SDGs for businesses through a progressive framework for action with three discrete levels: communication, tactical, and strategic. Within the tactical and strategic levels, several innovative approaches are discussed and illustrated. The challenges of design and measurement as well as opportunities for accountability and the social side of Sustainability, together call for transdisciplinary, collective action. This paper demonstrates feasible pathways and approaches for businesses to take corporate social responsibility to the next level and utilize the SDG framework informed by sustainability science to support transformations towards the achievement of sustainability.

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“…The scope of literature research has also been presented by Beske and Seuring [58], Ahi and Searcy [59], Carter and Easton [60], Seuring and Müller [56], Rajeev et al [61] and Chen, Kitsis, [62]. Modeling based on the literature of the subject has been presented by Dubey et al [63] and Bendul [64], also by Wu, Santoso, Roan [65].…”

Section: Sscm-sustainable Supply Chain Managementmentioning

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The Selected Method and Tools for Performance Measurement in the Green Supply Chain—Survey Analysis in Poland

Tundys

Wiśniewski

2018

Sustainability

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The methods and tools for the performance measurement and evaluation of the green supply chain management are very important elements for the construction and function of this type of supply chain. The result is a presentation of the considerations underlying a very general model, which presents some selected tools, but no breakdown of individual industries. The considerations undertaken are important and have scientific added value as usually in practice, a very large number of tools are used to assess the supply chain, which are not always correlated or adapted to the specificity of the chain. It is worth pointing out which of the already used or completely new tools and methods will be most useful for assessing the green supply chain. The structure of the paper covers the theoretical and empirical. It includes an introduction, our goals and hypotheses, state of the art, methodology, empirical findings, and discussion. We present the definitional differences between green and sustainable supply chains and focus on the selection and identification of methods for the framework model for evaluating the green supply chain. In the next step, the theoretical and selected method and tools were compared to a survey of Poland. On the basis of the survey, we present the findings and discussions found in this area. The main methodology used includes a literature review, a survey analysis using a questionnaire and statistical tools. The survey was carried out in 2015 in sample organizations in Poland. The research results showed that organizations were aware of the environmental elements of measuring and assessing the supply chain from an environmental point of view, but their use depended on many factors: the area, size of the organization, or the industry. If certain boundary conditions are met and the organizations are aware of the essence of environmental aspects in the chain, then they are applying green measures to the supply chain. These findings provide a glimpse into the measurement system and show that organizations still have yet to understand the essence of green and sustainable performance measurement, the meaning of its application, and the benefits it brings. However, traditional measurement still plays a large role, so it is important to reflect on how to convince organizations to pay more attention to environmental aspects, while at the same time applying a green supply chain assessment model. These results are a framework in which to start building a green supply chain assessment model. The empirical research aimed to answer the question of whether theoretical and sustainable management tools have already played a role in perceiving and assessing the green supply chain.

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Sustainable supply chain models for base of the pyramid

Cited by 100 publications

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Bottoms up: Delivering sustainable value in the base of the pyramid

Bottoms up: Delivering sustainable value in the base of the pyramid

Harnessing the Sustainable Development Goals for businesses: A progressive framework for action

The Selected Method and Tools for Performance Measurement in the Green Supply Chain—Survey Analysis in Poland

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