Green process innovation: Where we are and where we are going

Environmental pollution has worsened in the past few decades, and increasing pressure is being put on firms by different regulatory bodies, customer groups, NGOs and other media outlets to adopt green process innovations (GPcIs), which include clean technologies and end-of-pipe solutions. Although considerable studies have been published on GPcI, the literature is disjointed, and as such, a comprehensive understanding of the issues, challenges and gaps is lacking. A systematic literature review (SLR) involving 80 relevant studies was conducted to extract seven themes: strategic response, organisational learning, institutional pressures, structural issues, outcomes, barriers and methodological choices. The review thus highlights the various gaps in the GPcI literature and illuminates the pathways for future research by proposing a series of potential research questions. This study is of vital importance to business strategy as it provides a comprehensive framework to help firms understand the various contours of GPcI. Likewise, policymakers can use the findings of this study to fill in the loopholes in the existing regulations that firms are exploiting to circumvent taxes and other penalties by locating their operations to emerging economies with less stringent environmental regulations.publishedVersio

Value Chain Integration – A Framework for Assessment

Despite an abundance of research on the topic, firms continue to struggle with integrating their value chains in order to create and deliver more value to customers. Silo-thinking (rather than systems-thinking) is a typical symptom of poorly integrated value chains. In this paper, we explore the enablers of better value chain integration, before developing and presenting a framework that can be used for assessing the maturity of value chain integration in organizations. We draw on practical insights from a multiple case study of several diverse companies currently working with the systematic integration of their value chains

Leading digital transformation: The Scandinavian way

Digital transformation can be seen as the mutual reinforcement of process redesign and innovative use of IT. The literature on digital transformation focuses on digital business strategy and the transformational CIO. Stakeholder engagement in combination with leadership style is seldom discussed. Our research questions are (i) what characterises leadership in the digital transformation, and (ii) what does the Scandinavian workplace model add to the knowledge of digital transformation? Our empirical evidence is the digital transformation in a large airline, the SAS, during the years 2013-16. The process was very turbulent but eventually quite successful. We identify two Scandinavian contributions to transformation research: firstly, the deep engagement with employees, including trade unions, supports a structured process with a focus on finding solutions, not conflicts. Second, a coaching leadership style, allowing space for autonomy, leverages the competence of highlyskilled employees

Similarities between disaster supply chains and commercial supply chains: a SCM process view

© 2017, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate conceptual and theoretical similarities between disaster relief chains (DRCs) and commercial supply chains using the customer relationship management process model (CRM) of the seminal global supply chain forum framework (GSCF) as a lens of analysis (Croxton et al. in Int J Logist Manag 12(2):13–36, 2001). A range of empirical data from a case study of the 2006 relief and recovery response to the Cyclone Larry disaster is analysed using the CRM process model of the GSCF framework as a lens of analysis. We find that there are unexpected conceptual and theoretical similarities between DRCs in the Cyclone Larry disaster response and commercial supply chains. The study demonstrates that core commercial SCM concepts such as integration and integrative process management can also be found empirically in the domain of disaster response operations and allied management of supply chains for disaster relief and recovery (DROSCM). The study also shows that research in the DROSCM domain can develop in a range of directions unfettered by a paradigm focused on differences between DRCs and commercial supply chains. This is the first study to conceptually, theoretically, and empirically demonstrate similarities between DRCs and commercial supply chains