Toward sustainable sourcing in global supply chains
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation develops insights about the design of sourcing policies to achieve sustainable sourcing in global supply chains. I focus on two supply chains and their environmental sustainability issues: (1) the Merino wool supply chain and desertification in Argentine Patagonia and (2) the palm oil supply chain and illegal deforestation in Indonesia. These themes were inspired by and formulated around operational gridlocks faced by companies in the implementation of their sustainable sourcing goals. Chapter 2 illustrates that solving such operational gridlocks requires innovative approaches to mainstays of supply chain management, including contract design and inventory management. Chapter 3 analyzes one of these innovative approaches in depth and develops a general theory about conditions under which it may work. Combining this analysis with panel data on 1,252 transactions in the Merino wool supply chain reveals new insights about the design of procurement contracts to help address the challenge of severe land degradation in Argentine Patagonia through sustainable sourcing. Chapter 4 proposes a novel incentive mechanism to achieve no-deforestation commitments in palm oil supply chains that originate from the growing number of smallholder farmers in Indonesia. This incentive's proposal draws on 58 interviews along the palm oil supply chain and a survey of 420 smallholder palm oil farmers. It is designed for commodity supply chains that are characterized by bulk processing, commodity-based pricing, spot market trading and vast production by small farmers in developing countries. Finally, I conclude with future research directions, including the implementation of controlled supply chain experiments to test the paradigms proposed in this dissertation.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2017 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | De Zegher, Joann F |
|---|---|
| Associated with | Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (Stanford University) |
| Primary advisor | Field, Christopher B |
| Primary advisor | Iancu, Dan |
| Thesis advisor | Field, Christopher B |
| Thesis advisor | Iancu, Dan |
| Thesis advisor | Lee, Hau Leung |
| Thesis advisor | Naylor, Rosamond |
| Advisor | Lee, Hau Leung |
| Advisor | Naylor, Rosamond |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Joann F. De Zegher. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2017. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2017 by Joann Francoise Christiane Isabelle De Zegher
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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