Operations Management and Sustainability New Research Perspectives

This edited book presents cutting edge international research in operations management sustainability and topical research themes. As the sustainability agenda gains greater prominence and momentum throughout society, business actors and stakeholders are increasingly concerned with the impact of current business operations. There is a growing need for OM research and practice which reflects these concerns. Based on demands from industry and society at large, universities and schools now develop academic programs which are meant to serve this need – yet there is no clear and manifest research program concerning OM and sustainability. This book is of use to both researchers orientating themselves in this new and exciting field and educators seeking inspiration to develop new courses.

Introduction to the theme and the book

Poul Houman Andersen & Luitzen de Boer

Section I: SOM Strategy and Management

1. Sustainable operations Strategy and Management: an introduction chapter to section I

Poul Houman Andersen

1. Flexibility of environmental regulations and the impact on operations innovation

Ramakrishnan Ramanathan

1. Organizational Drivers and Barriers of Circular Supply Chain Operations

Roland Levering & Bart Vos

1. Inconsistent norms in buyer-supplier relations - a study of sustainability introduction in the Apparel industry

Ulla Normann Christensen

Section II: Theory building within SOM 

1. Theory building within SOM: an introduction chapter to section II

Poul Houman Andersen

1. Business models in the circular economy and the enabling role of circular supply chains

Luciano Batista, Michael Bourlakis, Palie Smart & Roger Maull

1. Disentangling Sustainability-Oriented Innovation and Its Link to Environmental Sustainability: An Exploratory Study in the Aviation Industry

Rohit Nishant, Alok Choudhary, Hung Yao Liu & Mark Goh

1. The impact of negative social / environmental events on the market value of supply chain partners

Mauro Fracarolli Nunes

Section III: Selected practices, methods and tools for SOM

1. Maximizing the retained value of product cannibalization based on circular economy principles

Eva Faja Ripanti, Benny Tjahjono

1. Sustainable inter modal train transport

Pinja Raitasuo, Anu Bask & Mervi Rajahonka

1. Mapping logistics services in sustainable production and consumption systems: what are the necessary dynamic capabilities?

Tim Gruchmann, Gustavo De La Torre & Klaus Krumme

1. Using the green Performance Map: towards the next step in material efficiency measurement,

Sasha Shahbazi, Magnus Wiktorsson & Martin Kurdve

Section IV: SOM Capability development

Pinja Raitasuo, Markku Kuula, Alex J. Ruiz-Torres & Max Finne,

1. Interaction between buyer and supplier in green public procurement, an absorptive capacity perspective

Mieko Igarashi

Luitzen de Boer is Professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway.

Poul Houman Andersen is B2B Marketing Professor at Aalborg University, Denmark and Professor II at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway.