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The Supply Chain: A System in Crisis
The Supply Chain: A System in Crisis highlights the multifaceted challenges facing modern supply chains. It examines the concept of a globalized economy, juxtaposing the promise of prosperity with the acute reality of worker exploitation and environmental harm.
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This title contains one or more Open Access chapters.
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Critical Acclaim
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The Supply Chain: A System in Crisis highlights the multifaceted challenges facing modern supply chains. It examines the concept of a globalized economy, juxtaposing the promise of prosperity with the acute reality of worker exploitation and environmental harm. This thought-provoking book explores the interconnected relationships of supply chains with political problems, social crises, and the depreciation of natural resources.
Analyzing in depth the rapid development of the global economic system and the subsequent vulnerability of the supply chain, international experts dive into the many issues exacerbated by this commercial evolution, covering disasters such as the Rana Plaza collapse. Urging the reader to rethink supply chain management, the book calls for a transformation from mere value creation to sustainability and regeneration. Considering the power of systemic and holistic thinking as well as transformative public policy, it envisions a future in which supply chains emerge reborn and resilient.
This seminal book is an indispensable resource for scholars of supply chain and sustainability management, corporate social responsibility, and responsible consumption and production. It will also be of critical use to practitioners, political decision makers, business strategists, and environmental and labor rights activists.
Analyzing in depth the rapid development of the global economic system and the subsequent vulnerability of the supply chain, international experts dive into the many issues exacerbated by this commercial evolution, covering disasters such as the Rana Plaza collapse. Urging the reader to rethink supply chain management, the book calls for a transformation from mere value creation to sustainability and regeneration. Considering the power of systemic and holistic thinking as well as transformative public policy, it envisions a future in which supply chains emerge reborn and resilient.
This seminal book is an indispensable resource for scholars of supply chain and sustainability management, corporate social responsibility, and responsible consumption and production. It will also be of critical use to practitioners, political decision makers, business strategists, and environmental and labor rights activists.
Critical Acclaim
‘A timely book written and edited by highly knowledgeable academics. The authors provide a good historical background on supply chain crises as well as a way forward during critical times. There are many of the “wicked” supply chain problems considered in this text. A very worthwhile endeavor!’
– Wendy L. Tate, University of Tennessee, US
– Wendy L. Tate, University of Tennessee, US
Contributors
Contributors include: Philip Beske-Janssen, Vikram Bhakoo, Sandra L. Fisher, Stefan Gold, Graham Heaslip, Pasi Heikkurinen, Johanna Hohenthal, Joshua Hurtado Hurtado, Jessica Jungell-Michelsson, Andrew P.Kach, Gyöngyi Kovács, Annachiara Longoni, Davide Luzzini, Lee Matthews, Janne Mende, Steve New, Tina Nyfors, Mark Pagell, Mehrdokht Pournader, Jarkko Pyysiäinen, Jenny Rinkinen, Toni Ruuska, Heini Salonen, Christoph Scherrer, Minelle E.Silva, Milla Suomalainen, Mike Wasserman, Andreas Wieland, Frank Wiengarten
Contents
Contents:
PART I DIAGNOSING THE CRISIS
1 The supply chain in crisis 2
Andreas Wieland and Stefan Gold
2 Supplying the Anthropocene: cultural turning in process 11
Pasi Heikkurinen, Toni Ruuska, Johanna Hohenthal,
Jenny Rinkinen, Jarkko Pyysiäinen, Joshua Hurtado
Hurtado, Jessica Jungell-Michelsson, Heini Salonen, Tina
Nyfors and Milla Suomalainen
3 Fostering the crisis of supply chains: the institutional dimension 27
Christoph Scherrer
PART II SYMPTOMS OF THE CRISIS
4 The global regulation of supply chains and human rights:
linked but fractured 41
Janne Mende
5 Understanding modern slavery through the lens of
behavioral ethics 61
Mehrdokht Pournader, Andrew P. Kach and Vikram Bhakoo
6 Supply chain justice 74
Lee Matthews and Minelle E. Silva
7 Wages, prices, and power: can customer-mandated living
wages solve supply chain exploitation? 84
Steve New
8 A just transition towards making precarious work rare,
safe, and legal 111
Sandra L. Fisher, Annachiara Longoni, Davide Luzzini,
Mark Pagell, Mike Wasserman and Frank Wiengarten
PART III WAYS OUT OF THE CRISIS
9 Humanitarian supply chains: challenging the system 127
Gyöngyi Kovács and Graham Heaslip
10 Circular economy 133
Philip Beske-Janssen
Index 150
PART I DIAGNOSING THE CRISIS
1 The supply chain in crisis 2
Andreas Wieland and Stefan Gold
2 Supplying the Anthropocene: cultural turning in process 11
Pasi Heikkurinen, Toni Ruuska, Johanna Hohenthal,
Jenny Rinkinen, Jarkko Pyysiäinen, Joshua Hurtado
Hurtado, Jessica Jungell-Michelsson, Heini Salonen, Tina
Nyfors and Milla Suomalainen
3 Fostering the crisis of supply chains: the institutional dimension 27
Christoph Scherrer
PART II SYMPTOMS OF THE CRISIS
4 The global regulation of supply chains and human rights:
linked but fractured 41
Janne Mende
5 Understanding modern slavery through the lens of
behavioral ethics 61
Mehrdokht Pournader, Andrew P. Kach and Vikram Bhakoo
6 Supply chain justice 74
Lee Matthews and Minelle E. Silva
7 Wages, prices, and power: can customer-mandated living
wages solve supply chain exploitation? 84
Steve New
8 A just transition towards making precarious work rare,
safe, and legal 111
Sandra L. Fisher, Annachiara Longoni, Davide Luzzini,
Mark Pagell, Mike Wasserman and Frank Wiengarten
PART III WAYS OUT OF THE CRISIS
9 Humanitarian supply chains: challenging the system 127
Gyöngyi Kovács and Graham Heaslip
10 Circular economy 133
Philip Beske-Janssen
Index 150
