Innovation in Sustainable Supply Chains: Interaction for Resources from an SME Perspective
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Innovation in Sustainable Supply Chains : Interaction for Resources from an SME Perspective. / Harms, Dorli; Klewitz, Johanna.
Supply Management Research: Aktuelle Forschungsergebnisse 2013. ed. / Ronald Bogaschewsky; Michael Eßig; Rainer Lasch; Wolfgang Stölzle. Wiesbaden : Gabler Verlag, 2013. p. 105-130 (Advanced Studies in Supply Management).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Innovation in Sustainable Supply Chains
T2 - Interaction for Resources from an SME Perspective
AU - Harms, Dorli
AU - Klewitz, Johanna
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Supply chain management is increasingly challenged to integrate environmental (e.g. product recyclability) and social issues (e.g. labor conditions) to establish sustainable supply chains. Apart from a risk-orientation in sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) companies can also pursue an opportunity-oriented strategy linked to innovation. In this paper we develop the argument that SSCM is an opportunity for companies to develop sustainability-oriented innovations (SOIs), that is, improved or new products, processes, and organizational structures. For this purpose we focus our analysis on SSCM from the perspective of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) as, so far, little is known on how SMEs manage SSCM within the business-toconsumer (B2C) context, even though SMEs are important for sustainable development. We argue that SSCM can play a central role for SOIs of SMEs by making resources accessible through the interaction with primary (e.g. customers, suppliers) and secondary supply chain stakeholders (e.g. competitors, universities). Building on the resource-based and relational view we develop a conceptual framework which discusses how resource flows can occur in the interaction with different supply chain stakeholders. As a result, we explicate theoretical propositions and implications for practice.
AB - Supply chain management is increasingly challenged to integrate environmental (e.g. product recyclability) and social issues (e.g. labor conditions) to establish sustainable supply chains. Apart from a risk-orientation in sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) companies can also pursue an opportunity-oriented strategy linked to innovation. In this paper we develop the argument that SSCM is an opportunity for companies to develop sustainability-oriented innovations (SOIs), that is, improved or new products, processes, and organizational structures. For this purpose we focus our analysis on SSCM from the perspective of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) as, so far, little is known on how SMEs manage SSCM within the business-toconsumer (B2C) context, even though SMEs are important for sustainable development. We argue that SSCM can play a central role for SOIs of SMEs by making resources accessible through the interaction with primary (e.g. customers, suppliers) and secondary supply chain stakeholders (e.g. competitors, universities). Building on the resource-based and relational view we develop a conceptual framework which discusses how resource flows can occur in the interaction with different supply chain stakeholders. As a result, we explicate theoretical propositions and implications for practice.
KW - Sustainability Science
KW - Sustainability sciences, Management & Economics
KW - Entrepreneurship
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-658-03061-2_5
DO - 10.1007/978-3-658-03061-2_5
M3 - Contributions to collected editions/anthologies
SN - 978-365-80306-0-5
T3 - Advanced Studies in Supply Management
SP - 105
EP - 130
BT - Supply Management Research
A2 - Bogaschewsky, Ronald
A2 - Eßig, Michael
A2 - Lasch, Rainer
A2 - Stölzle, Wolfgang
PB - Gabler Verlag
CY - Wiesbaden
ER -