Sustainable Supply Chains: A Research-Based Textbook on Operations and Strategy - Paperback

by Yann Bouchery (Editor), Charles J. Corbett (Editor), Jan C. Fransoo (Editor)

​First edited text designed specifically for graduate courses in Sustainable Supply Chains

Editors are leaders in the field

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This book is primarily intended to serve as a research-based textbook on sustainable supply chains for graduate programs in Business, Management, Industrial Engineering, and Industrial Ecology, but it should also be of interest for researchers in the broader sustainable supply chain space, whether from the operations management and industrial engineering side or more from the industrial ecology and life-cycle assessment side.
As firms become progressively more tightly coupled in global supply chains, rather than being large vertically integrated monoliths, risks and opportunities associated with activities upstream or downstream will increasingly impinge upon their own wellbeing. For a firm to thrive, it is increasingly imperative that it be aware of economic, environmental and social dimensions of the entire supply chain it belongs to, and that it proactively monitor and manage those. Finding efficient solutions towards a more sustainable supply chain is increasingly important for managers, but clearly this raise difficult questions, often without clear answers. This book aims to provide insights into these kinds of questions for students and practitioners, based on the latest academic research.
We have noticed a recent surge in the number of courses on "sustainable supply chain management" or related topics, but a relative lack of corresponding teaching materials. While sustainability has been widely studied at the level of company strategy and extensive related pedagogical materials exist, there is still a relative lack of materials on sustainability with a supply chain management perspective.
This book is primarily intended to serve as a research-based textbook on sustainable supply chains for graduate programs in Business, Management, Industrial Engineering, and Industrial Ecology, but it should also be of interest for researchers in the broader sustainable supply chain space, whether from the operations management and industrial engineering side or more from the industrial ecology and life-cycle assessment side.

Author Biography

Dr. Yann Bouchery is an Assistant Professor at EM Normandie (France). Dr. Bouchery received a Master Degree in Industrial Engineering and Management from Lund University (Sweden) as well as a Master Degree in Industrial Management and Logistics from Ecole Centrale Lille (France). He obtained a PhD in Operations Management from Ecole Centrale Paris (France) in 2012. He has published articles in academic journals such as International Journal of Production Economics and European Journal of Operational Research.

Charles J. Corbett, Ph.D., is professor of Operations Management and Sustainability at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, where he holds the IBM Chair in Management. He served as Chairman and Deputy Dean of Academic Affairs from 2009-2012, and previously as Associate Dean of the MBA program.

Dr. Tarkan Tan is an Associate Professor in the School of Industrial Engineering at Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands. Dr. Tan received his Ph.D in Industrial Engineering from the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, in 2002.