1. Supply chain risk management for humanitarian aid delivery: risk identification and contingency analysis 

   Löffel, Maximilian; Schmidt, Christoph G.; Wagner, Stephan M. (2024)

   The International Journal of Logistics Management

   Purpose: Humanitarian organizations are responsible for delivering aid under diverse circumstances in various contexts. We argue that humanitarian organizations face specific challenges in their logistics and operations. Thus, adequate supply chain risk management is required to facilitate effective and efficient humanitarian aid delivery. Design/methodology/approach: We first identify potential supply chain risks in humanitarian aid ...

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2. Systems thinking: A review of sustainability management research 

   Williams, Amanda; Kennedy, Steve; Philipp, Felix; et al. (2017)

   Journal of Cleaner Production

   Review Article

3. Backstage Interorganizational Collaboration: Corporate Endorsement of the Sustainable Development Goals 

   Williams, Amanda; Whiteman, Gail; Parker, John N. (2019)

   Academy of Management Discoveries

   In September 2015, the United Nations launched the Sustainable Development Goals as the global development agenda. Since then, many companies have endorsed the goals. However, research has yet to address the emergent interorganizational processes that led to corporate endorsement of the goals. In this article, we address the question: What were the emergent interorganizational processes over time and space that led to corporate endorsement ...

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4. A Framework for Organizing Lean Product Development 

   Hoppmann, Joern; Rebentisch, Eric; Dombrowski, Uwe; et al. (2011)

   Engineering Management Journal

   While in the last 20 years a large number of frameworks have been presented in literature, currently there is no consensus on how to define Lean Product Development (PD). We used content analysis to investigate existing approaches and integrated them into a single, coherent framework consisting of 11 Lean PD components. To better understand the nature of the novel definition of Lean PD, we conducted a theoretical investigation of the ...

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5. Archetypes of Inter-firm Relations in the Implementation of Management Innovation: A Set-theoretic Study in China’s Biopharmaceutical Industry 

   Meuer, Johannes (2014)

   Organization Studies

   Innovation research increasingly focuses on understanding why and how firms implement new management practices, processes or structures. Emerging in the shadow of research on technological innovation, growing evidence points towards the inter-firm relation as an important locus of innovation. Yet although organizational theory suggests discrete alternative inter-firm coordination mechanisms, the literature on management innovation has ...

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