Socially relevant and inclusive operations management

Sunar, Nur; Swaminathan, Jayashankar M.

doi:10.1111/poms.13873

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“…Diversity inclusion has become an important element in the context of sustainable operations. Within the broader operations area, research scholars have increasingly emphasized that inclusion has become a key element of operations (Kalkanci et al., 2019; Sunar & Swaminathan, 2022), along with an increasing focus on issues that include race (Cui et al., 2020), gender (Cui et al., 2022; Pierce et al., 2021; Plambeck & Ramdas, 2020; Tang, 2022), and disability (Narayanan & Terris, 2020). In this context, the United Nations SDGs 8 and 10 also emphasize the notion of reducing inequality.…”

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Maximizing disability diversity, language diversity, and productivity: A study in apparel manufacturing

Zhang,

Narayanan,

Soun

et al. 2023

Production and Operations Management

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The UN Sustainable Development Goals have recently emphasized the importance of diversity inclusion. Motivated by this goal, we examine the impact of employing individuals with disabilities in apparel manufacturing cells on overall team productivity. We formulate a series of deterministic and stochastic productivity maximization assignment problems to study the impact of disability inclusion on a production line. We extend the baseline productivity maximization formulation to study a multi‐objective problem that simultaneously maximizes productivity, disability diversity, and language diversity. Each analysis is performed across two different garments drawn from a real‐world setting. The models are tested using archival time study data collected in partnership with an apparel manufacturing firm where more than 75% of the billed work hours are from individuals with significant disabilities. The following insights emerge from the analyses. First, the productivity of teams which have individuals across multiple, different types of disabilities is higher than the productivity of teams with employees who share a single, specific type of disability. Second, teams that employ both individuals with and without disabilities perform slightly better than teams that consist of only individuals with disabilities. In some instances, contrary to intuition, teams of only individuals with disabilities even have higher productivity than teams of only individuals with no disabilities. Finally, our results from the multi‐objective problem that simultaneously maximizes productivity, disability diversity, and language diversity suggest that productivity is not generally sensitive to increases in disability diversity. However, productivity is sensitive at extreme levels of disability diversity and language diversity. Limitations and possible future extensions of the study are discussed.This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved

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Maximizing disability diversity, language diversity, and productivity: A study in apparel manufacturing

Zhang,

Narayanan,

Soun

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Production and Operations Management

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“…This paper also has societal implications when firms implement the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in their SCs (Monteiro et al , 2018; Silva and Figueiredo, 2020; Sunar and Swaminathan, 2022). For instance, SDG 12 can be pursued, mainly targeting 12.6 that states the need to “encourage companies, especially large and transnational companies, to adopt sustainable practices and to integrate sustainability information into their reporting cycle” (UN, 2021).…”

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Measuring supplier diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI): scale development and empirical validation

Silva,

Ruel,

Sousa-Filho

2023

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Purpose As firms consider initiatives to enhance their social sustainability performance, supplier diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) have become significantly more important. As such, the purpose of this study is to theorize, operationalize and develop an empirical scale to measure supplier DEI. Design/methodology/approach The following three-phase scale development method was used: first, identification of scale items from the literature; second, a qualitative component involving interviews with expert panels; and third, a psychometric evaluation through two survey rounds with 327 managers from multiple areas of supply chain management. Findings Although not necessarily a new concept, this study provides a more complete understanding of supplier DEI beyond traditional aspects of supplier diversity (e.g. women and minority-owned suppliers) to feature additional considerations (e.g. LGBTQIAP+) and reflect broader societal considerations, such as human rights. Therefore, validated items for the three dimensions (i.e. diversity, equity [human rights] and inclusion) were identified. Originality/value This study provides systematically validated scales to measure supplier DEI based on three dimensions. Each dimension can be developed separately from the others, but they are intertwined, which reinforces the contribution to both scholars and practitioners.

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“…The sustainable OM literature has evolved to address many issues related to the low‐carbon economy via GHG emissions reduction and the creation of greener supply chains (Atasu et al., 2020; Deshpande & Swaminathan, 2020; Sunar & Swaminathan, 2022). The literature in this area is extensive and broad.…”

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“…(2019); Atasu et al. (2020), and Sunar and Swaminathan (2022) have discussed GHG emissions reduction and disclosure, climate policy, renewable energy, electricity, waste management, and new products, technologies, and business models, among others. We focus our review on the most relevant OM and supply chain research in GHG emissions reduction and disclosure, specifically carbon leakage and emissions allocation, and supply chain design and governance (see Table A.1 in the Appendix in the Supporting Information for a summary of the literature review table).…”

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Supply chain leakage of greenhouse gas emissions and supplier innovation

Song

Dong

Kull

et al. 2023

Production and Operations Management

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Climate change is a major global risk and a key driver for greenhouse gas emissions reduction. Yet, firms’ internal emissions reduction may create a leakage leading to higher emissions in the supply chain. The related literature suggests that the pollution‐haven hypothesis explains such emissions leakage. In contrast, we explore an alternative reason for supply chain leakage, which is related to optimization of supply chain activities and supply chain innovation. Based on panel data from Bloomberg Environmental, Social, and Governance and Bloomberg Supply Chain, we estimate our models at a dyadic (i.e., firm and supplier) level using two‐way cluster‐robust standard error, treating various sources of endogeneity. We find empirical evidence of a supply chain leakage effect—a higher level of a supplier's emissions is associated with a lower level of a firm's internal emissions. More importantly, the supplier's innovation can be a major reason behind the leakage; the supply chain leakage effect is stronger when a supplier is more innovative. Furthermore, the role of innovation is strengthened when a supplier invests in eco‐innovation and has technological capabilities similar to those of the focal firm. Our findings suggest that supply chain leakage may not be completely driven by the pollution‐haven effect, but instead is associated with supply chain optimization and innovation that may be beneficial in the long run.

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Socially relevant and inclusive operations management

Cited by 38 publications

References 182 publications

Maximizing disability diversity, language diversity, and productivity: A study in apparel manufacturing

Maximizing disability diversity, language diversity, and productivity: A study in apparel manufacturing

Measuring supplier diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI): scale development and empirical validation

Supply chain leakage of greenhouse gas emissions and supplier innovation

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