When Gold Speaks, Every Tongue Is Silent: The Thin Line Between Legal, Illegal, and Informal in Peru’s Gold Supply Chain

Valk, Naomi van der; Bisschop, Lieselot; Swaaningen, René van

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-46327-4_11

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“…However, it can illegally or legally caught, processed or sold depending on location and context. These activities can be co-ordinated and carried out by both legal and illegal parties (Valk et al. , 2020).…”

Section: The Role Of Illegality In Supply Chain and Operations Manage...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Increasingly, it has become apparent that supply chain researchers are missing an opportunity to help address these problems from both a practical and policy making perspective. For our pathways, themes from these interviews are supplemented with material from other academic research, investigative journalism, conversations with government policy makers, documentary research and newspapers (Smith et al, 2017;McElwee et al, 2017;Valk et al, 2020). We use this work to inform our descriptions and thoughts about how SCM scholars and practitioners can move the field forward to address illegal supply chains.…”

Section: Illegal Supply Chainsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Supply chain scholars can spot illegality by applying expertise and unpacking the supply chain process, when goods are "too cheap" to have been legally sourced and produced, scholars can interrogate cost/revenues across supply chains. Analysing smuggling from a supply chain perspective can help identify the activities and actors involved, highlighting how these interact with the (organised crime) policies they face (Valk et al, 2020). At the meso-level, firms across the supply chain can contribute to societal economic inequality in many ways (Bapuji et al, 2018) creating opportunities for criminality.…”

Section: Pathway Item 2: Why Does Illegality Happen In Supply Chains?mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Breaking bad: how can supply chain management better address illegal supply chains?

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2023

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PurposeThis pathway paper offers research guidance for investigating illegal supply chains as they increasingly threaten societies, economies and ecosystems. There are implications for policy makers to consider incorporating supply chain expertise.Design/methodology/approachThe authors’ work is informed by the team's previous and ongoing studies, research from fields such as criminology, investigative journalism and legal documents.FindingsIllegality occurs in many supply chains and consists in multiple forms. Certain sectors, supply chain innovations, longer supply chains, and heterogeneous regulations and enforcement exacerbate illegal activities. But illegal activity may be necessary for humanitarian, religious or nationalistic reasons. These areas are under explored by supply chain researchers.Research limitations/implicationsBy encouraging supply chain academics to research in this area as well as form collaborative partnerships outside of the discipline, the authors hope to move the field forward in prevention as well as learning from illegal supply chains.Practical implicationsPractitioners seek to prevent issues like counterfeiting with their products as well as fraud for economic and reputational reasons.Social implicationsGovernments strive to minimise impacts on their economies and people, and both governments and NGOs attempt to minimise the negative social and environmental impacts. Policy makers need supply chain researchers to evaluate new laws to prevent enabling illegality in supply chains.Originality/valueAs an under-explored area, the authors suggest pathways such as partnering with other disciplines, exploring why these supply chains occur, considering other data sources and methodologies to interdict illegality and learning from illegal supply chains to improve legal supply chains.

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Section: The Role Of Illegality In Supply Chain and Operations Manage...mentioning

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Section: Illegal Supply Chainsmentioning

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Section: Pathway Item 2: Why Does Illegality Happen In Supply Chains?mentioning

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“…Ref. [13] examined the gold supply chain in Peru and divided the supply chain into four main stages that interact with each other: the supply of chemicals and equipment, production, wholesale trade, and retail sales. Further, they illustrated the differences between legal, illegal, and informal activities in the supply chain and provided a detailed sketch of the gold supply chain in Peru.…”

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“…Several studies have recently been conducted on gold supply chains and illegal mining activities [13,14] without considering the SD approach. A few studies use SD modeling to examine illicit activities on different supply chains rather than the gold supply chain.…”

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Analysis of Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining in Peru under Climate Impacts Using System Dynamics Modeling

2022

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In this paper, we propose a system dynamics (SD) model to examine the dynamics of an informal artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) supply chain that has interactions with the illegal gold supply chain in the Amazon rainforest region, Madre de Dios (MdD), Peru. In order to examine the system under climate impacts and validate the model, we run it under a flood scenario, which is one of the main climate impacts that causes disruption in mining activities. Our findings suggest that the dynamics of informal mines are highly affected by the illegal mercury supply, fuel supply, and availability of workers. In addition, the model under the flood scenario suggests that any external variable that could directly affect fuel and mercury supply would result in a disruption of informal and illegal gold production.

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Integrated system dynamics modeling and optimization for artisanal and small-scale gold supply chains

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When Gold Speaks, Every Tongue Is Silent: The Thin Line Between Legal, Illegal, and Informal in Peru’s Gold Supply Chain

Cited by 3 publications

References 29 publications

Breaking bad: how can supply chain management better address illegal supply chains?

Breaking bad: how can supply chain management better address illegal supply chains?

Analysis of Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining in Peru under Climate Impacts Using System Dynamics Modeling

Integrated system dynamics modeling and optimization for artisanal and small-scale gold supply chains

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