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来源类型	Article
规范类型	其他
DOI	10.1080/00207543.2011.571930
ISBN	0020-7543
	Understanding why firms should invest in sustainable supply chains: a complexity approach.
	Hall, Jeremy; Matos, Stelvia; Silvestre, Bruno
发表日期	2011-09-14
出处	International Journal of Production Research
出版者	Taylor & Francis
出版年	2011
页码	1332-1348
语种	英语
摘要	This paper explores why firms should include sustainable development considerations in supply chains as a means of improving social and environmental impacts of production systems. The recognition of financial, social and environmental elements however creates greater complexity, which makes optimisation approaches to sustainable supply chain problems infeasible. We frame our analysis using Kauffman’s (1993) NK theory, with interactions among financial, social and environmental elements identified through empirical research conducted in Brazilian oil and gas, sugarcane ethanol and biodiesel supply chains. We use a matrix of interactions (Baldwin and Clark 1999) as a template, allowing for the identification of key financial, social and environmental elements and their interconnections within and between supply chains. We contribute by arguing that firms focusing on individual sustainable development elements independently are unlikely to find satisfactory solutions to their sustainable supply chain problems. We further argue that certain sectors have a propensity to be socially exclusive, whereas others are potentially socially inclusive; in such cases, firms operating in exclusive sectors may be able to find satisfactory solutions to their broader sustainability strategies by investing in the social and environmental performance of other supply chains.
URL	http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/88359/
来源智库	Science Policy Research Unit (United Kingdom)
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条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/467908
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Hall, Jeremy,Matos, Stelvia,Silvestre, Bruno. Understanding why firms should invest in sustainable supply chains: a complexity approach.. 2011.