Overview
- Presents state-of-the-art research on responsible operations and identifies associated underlying business models
- Highlights current challenges and opportunities that business face in transforming their business to be more responsible
- Discusses development of emerging economies and addressing the needs of the base of the pyramid
Part of the book series: Springer Series in Supply Chain Management (SSSCM, volume 10)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book presents state-of-the-art research on responsible operations practices. The book identifies the challenges and opportunities arising from the shift towards responsible business operations and examines these issues through the lenses of operations management, emphasizing the supply chain transformations associated with these changes. Developing a responsible business model presents a great opportunity for firms to differentiate in the marketplace through innovative models and insights around responsible operations and supply chain management. To do so, companies in many industries are changing their practices around sourcing materials, supplier compliance around processes and labor, scientific and sustainable approaches to farming in emerging countries, managing counterfeiting risks, and public health management.
Responsible Business Operations: Challenges and Opportunities is divided into three sections. Section 1 focuses on environmental responsibility for companies. It also explores alternative energy solutions for both the developed and developing world, as well as worldwide carbon footprint reduction efforts. Section 2 is dedicated to social responsibility, with chapters covering topics including improving agricultural food chains and humanitarian challenges for businesses. Finally Section 3 promotes ethical responsibility, analyzing ways to improve supplier compliance to product, process and ethical standards.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Vinayak Deshpande is a professor and area chair of Operations at UNC Kenan-Flagler Business school. His research interests are in the area of customer service and demand information driven supply chain management, supply chain collaboration, and addressing sustainability and corporate social responsibility issues in supply chains. He conducts this work in industry sectors that include defense, aviation, airlines, healthcare, computers and hi-tech. His research has been published in premier academic journals such as Management Science, Operations Research, and Manufacturing & Service Operations Management.
Jayashankar Swaminathan is the GlaxoSmithKline Distinguished Professor of Operations. He teaches courses in global operations, global execution models and global supply chain strategy and management. Dr. Swaminathan has published more than 100 articles on these topics. He is the author of “Indian Economic Superpower: Fiction or Future?” He currently serves as a department editor for Management Science and Production and Operations Management journals.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Responsible Business Operations
Book Subtitle: Challenges and Opportunities
Editors: Jayashankar M. Swaminathan, Vinayak Deshpande
Series Title: Springer Series in Supply Chain Management
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51957-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-51956-8Published: 10 February 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-51959-9Published: 10 February 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-51957-5Published: 09 February 2021
Series ISSN: 2365-6395
Series E-ISSN: 2365-6409
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 266
Topics: Supply Chain Management, Operations Research/Decision Theory, Operations Research, Management Science