Rethinking the future of sustainable supply chain management: A natural resource-based view
Global supply ecosystems are increasingly effected by the paradigm shift towards a more sustainable future. This is not only driven by upcoming legislations, resource scarcity, and social responsibility towards the environment, but also by the possibility to achieve a competitive advantage enabled b...
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| Format: | Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis |
| Language: | English |
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2023
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| Online Access: | https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-fau/frontdoor/index/index/docId/19931 https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bvb:29-opus4-199312 https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-fau/files/19931/DissertationPublikationsversionLukasBenz.pdf |
| Summary: | Global supply ecosystems are increasingly effected by the paradigm shift towards a more sustainable future. This is not only driven by upcoming legislations, resource scarcity, and social responsibility towards the environment, but also by the possibility to achieve a competitive advantage enabled by sustainable management. The natural resources-based view with the three interconnected strategies pollution prevention, product stewardship, and sustainable development thereby is a widely used conceptual framework to examine the relationship between business and environmental sustainability and competitive advantages. This dissertation comprises four essays contributing to the achievement of competitive advantage in the light of the natural resource-based view, on a company, and on a supply chain level. Therefore, a variety of qualitative and quantitative methodological approaches is applied. Thereby, different perspectives based on the strategic capabilities of the natural-resource based view are adopted to both expand the theoretical bases of different research fields, and to provide guidance for practitioners for the further development of organizations and supply chains. The first article, “Development of a search and rescue framework for maritime freight shipping in the Arctic”, related to the strategic capability pollution prevention, empirically investigates necessary capabilities for search and rescue in the Arctic region. The Arctic sea routes, also driven by climate change and melting polar ice, offer not only a solution for capacity bottlenecks, but could also lower costs due to potentially less fuel consumption and pollution. These developments have a positive effect on the volume of traffic in the Arctic, making a comprehensive search and rescue capabilities even more necessary to ensure safety. To contribute to this trend, based on a literature review, six dimensions of search and rescue in the Arctic are identified. These dimensions form the starting point for semi-structured interviews conducted ... |
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