Abstract
Global Supply Chain (GSC) is more complex than in the past. Actors across the GSC are more and more conscious about the role of their actions in sustainability. Giuffrida and Mangiaracina (2020) found that in the current state of discussion of sustainability and the GSC, there are 3 factors that are consistently considered to be crucial for the success of a sustainable initiative in GSC. These factors are the collaboration along the supply chain, the commitment of the top management, and the presence of environmentally oriented policies or regulations. This research proposal focuses on collaboration, or innovation transfer, among different stakeholders in the food supply chain for achieving social sustainability and with that, (green) competitive advantage. Social sustainability in supply chains addresses the practices impacting inter and intra-organizational stakeholders and people leading to their welfare, growth, and equality (Fritz and Silva, 2018). Furthermore, stakeholders in the GSC consist of a number of heterogeneous agents, and each of those agents make decisions about how to behave (and those decisions will evolve over time), and the agents interact with one another. That interaction leads to something that is called emergence: In a very real way, the whole becomes greater than the sum of the parts. The key issue is that you can’t understand the whole system by looking at its individual parts (Sullivan, 2011). For that, Complex Adaptive System, or CAS Theory, is used to understand how this complex system interacts and create something bigger than the sum of the parts.
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
Food Production and Sustainability
KEYWORDS
Global Supply Chain, Collaboration, Social Sustainability
