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Title Dancing the Supply Chain: Toward Transformative Supply Chain Management
ID_Doc 18523
Authors Wieland, A
Title Dancing the Supply Chain: Toward Transformative Supply Chain Management
Year 2021
Published Journal Of Supply Chain Management, 57.0, 1
DOI 10.1111/jscm.12248
Abstract Most of the theories that have dominated supply chain management (SCM) take a reductionist and static view on the supply chain and its management, promoting a global hunt for cheap labor and resources. As a result, supply chains tend to be operated without much concern for their broader contextual environment. This perspective overlooks that supply chains have become both vulnerable and harmful systems. Recent and ongoing crises have emphasized that the structures and processes of supply chains are fluid and interwoven with political-economic and planetary phenomena. Building on panarchy theory, this article reinterprets the supply chain as a social-ecological system and leaves behind a modernist view of SCM, replacing it with a more contemporary vision of "dancing the supply chain." A panarchy is a structure of adaptive cycles that are linked across different levels on scales of time, space, and meaning. It represents the world's complexities more effectively than reductionist and static theories ever could, providing the basis for transformative SCM.
Author Keywords panarchy; adaptive cycle; dancing; social– ecological system; social– ecological resilience; transformative management
Index Keywords Index Keywords
Document Type Other
Open Access Open Access
Source Social Science Citation Index (SSCI)
EID WOS:000596775300001
WoS Category Management
Research Area Business & Economics
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