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Data-driven and adaptive leadership contributing to sustainability: global agri-food supply chains connected with emerging markets (2015)
Journal Article
Akhtar, P., Tse, Y. K., Khan, Z., & Rao-Nicholson, R. (2016). Data-driven and adaptive leadership contributing to sustainability: global agri-food supply chains connected with emerging markets. International journal of production economics, 181(Part B), 392-401. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2015.11.013

Despite numerous promises on the links between data-driven and adaptive leadership, non-financial sustainability and financial sustainability, scholars have not conducted enough empirical research to test the links based on globally and massively con... Read More about Data-driven and adaptive leadership contributing to sustainability: global agri-food supply chains connected with emerging markets.

Sustainability management : insights from the viable system model (2015)
Journal Article
Panagiotakopoulos, P. D., Espinosa Salazar, A. M., & Walker, J. (2016). Sustainability management : insights from the viable system model. Journal of cleaner production, 113, 792-806. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.11.035

A review of current literature on sustainability standards reveals a significant gap between their adoption and the implementation of sustainability into every level of the organisation. In this paper, it is argued that in order to overcome this chal... Read More about Sustainability management : insights from the viable system model.

Eco-efficient supply chain networks: Development of a design framework and application to a real case study (2015)
Journal Article
Colicchia, C., Creazza, A., Dallari, F., & Melacini, M. (2016). Eco-efficient supply chain networks: Development of a design framework and application to a real case study. Production planning & control, 27(3), 157-168. https://doi.org/10.1080/09537287.2015.1090030

© 2015 Taylor & Francis. This paper presents a supply chain network design framework that is based on multi-objective mathematical programming and that can identify 'eco-efficient' configuration alternatives that are both efficient and ecologically... Read More about Eco-efficient supply chain networks: Development of a design framework and application to a real case study.

Information processing and management using citation network and keyword analysis to perform a systematic literature review on green supply chain management (2015)
Journal Article
Strozzi, F., & Colicchia, C. (2015). Information processing and management using citation network and keyword analysis to perform a systematic literature review on green supply chain management. Journal of Scientometric Research JSCIRES ; official publication of SciBiolMed.Org, 4(3), 195-205. https://doi.org/10.4103/2320-0057.174860

The field of Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM) has recently gained considerable attention from both academics and practitioners. This has caused an exponential growth in the number of publications related to different aspects of sustainability in... Read More about Information processing and management using citation network and keyword analysis to perform a systematic literature review on green supply chain management.

Boundary games: how teams of OR practitioners explore the boundaries of intervention (2015)
Journal Article
Velez-Castiblanco, J., Brocklesby, J., & Midgley, G. (2016). Boundary games: how teams of OR practitioners explore the boundaries of intervention. European journal of operational research, 249(3), 968-982. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2015.08.006

An operational research (OR) practitioner designing an intervention needs to engage in a practical process for choosing methods and implementing them. When a team of OR practitioners does this, and/or clients and stakeholders are involved, the social... Read More about Boundary games: how teams of OR practitioners explore the boundaries of intervention.

Governance for sustainability: learning from VSM practice (2015)
Journal Article
Espinosa, A. (2015). Governance for sustainability: learning from VSM practice. Kybernetes, 44(6-7), 955-969. https://doi.org/10.1108/K-02-2015-0043

Purpose – While there is some agreement on the usefulness of systems and complexity approaches to tackle the sustainability challenges facing the organisations and governments in the twenty-first century, less is clear regarding the way such approach... Read More about Governance for sustainability: learning from VSM practice.

Integrated sustainability management for organizations (2015)
Journal Article
Panagiotakopoulos, P., Espinosa, A., & Walker, J. (2015). Integrated sustainability management for organizations. Kybernetes, 44(6/7), 984-1004. https://doi.org/10.1108/K-12-2014-0291

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose the Viable System Model (VSM) as an effective model to base the analysis of organizational sustainability (long-term viability). It is specifically proposed as a model to integrate the various sustai... Read More about Integrated sustainability management for organizations.

Intermediaries in power-laden retail supply chains : an opportunity to improve buyer-supplier relationships and collaboration (2015)
Journal Article
Hingley, M., Lindgreen, A., & Grant, D. B. (2015). Intermediaries in power-laden retail supply chains : an opportunity to improve buyer-supplier relationships and collaboration. Industrial marketing management, 50, 78-84. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.indmarman.2015.05.025

Despite the benefits of buyers and seller collaboration and hence relationships extolled in extensive studies, issues of relationship power inhibit implementation of collaborative and relational approaches, particularly in some parts of the retail Se... Read More about Intermediaries in power-laden retail supply chains : an opportunity to improve buyer-supplier relationships and collaboration.

Insights into the development of strategy from a complexity perspective (2015)
Journal Article
Gregory, A., & Ronan, M. (2015). Insights into the development of strategy from a complexity perspective. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 66(4), 627-636. https://doi.org/10.1057/jors.2014.27

This paper provides an account of an ongoing project with an independent school in the UK. The project focuses on a strategy development intervention which, from the start, was systemic in orientation. The intention was to integrate simple systems co... Read More about Insights into the development of strategy from a complexity perspective.

Antimicrobials in animal agriculture: Parables and policy (2015)
Journal Article
Scott, H. M., Midgley, G., & Loneragan, G. H. (2015). Antimicrobials in animal agriculture: Parables and policy. Zoonoses and public health, 62(s1), 3-9. https://doi.org/10.1111/zph.12191

In addition to the scientific, economic, regulatory and other policy factors that impact on antimicrobial decision-making in different jurisdictions around the world, there exist ethical, social and cultural bases for the contemporary use of these pr... Read More about Antimicrobials in animal agriculture: Parables and policy.

Systemic Intervention (2015)
Working Paper
Midgley, G. (2015). Systemic Intervention

This paper describes the practice of systemic intervention, emphasizing (1) the need to explore stakeholder values and boundaries for analysis; (2) responses to the challenges of marginalization processes; and (3) a wide, pluralistic range of methods... Read More about Systemic Intervention.

A multi-agent architecture for outsourcing SMEs manufacturing supply chain (2015)
Journal Article
Kumari, S., Singh, A., Mishra, N., & Garza-Reyes, J. A. (2015). A multi-agent architecture for outsourcing SMEs manufacturing supply chain. Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, 36, 36-44. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rcim.2014.12.009

© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. Abstract In the present, global and competitive market customer's demands are very volatile. It is very difficult for small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) to satisfy their customer with quality product in reasonable price. La... Read More about A multi-agent architecture for outsourcing SMEs manufacturing supply chain.

The linkages between leadership approaches and coordination effectiveness: a path analysis of selected New Zealand-UK international agri-food supply chains (2015)
Journal Article
Akhtar, P., & Khan, Z. (2015). The linkages between leadership approaches and coordination effectiveness: a path analysis of selected New Zealand-UK international agri-food supply chains. British food journal, 117(1), 443-460. https://doi.org/10.1108/BFJ-12-2013-0357

Purpose – A suitable leadership approach and multiple dimensions of performance (operational and social dimensions contributing to financial performance – the effectiveness of international agri-food supply chain coordination) are important because o... Read More about The linkages between leadership approaches and coordination effectiveness: a path analysis of selected New Zealand-UK international agri-food supply chains.

Knowing differently in systemic intervention (2015)
Journal Article
Rajagopalan, R., & Midgley, G. (2015). Knowing differently in systemic intervention. Systems research and behavioral science, 32(5), 546-561. https://doi.org/10.1002/sres.2352

© 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. This paper makes the case for extended ways of knowing in systemic intervention. It argues that the deployment of formal (even reflective) thinking and dialogue methods are inadequate, on their own, to the critical ta... Read More about Knowing differently in systemic intervention.