Sustainability Initiatives Driving Supply Chain: Climate Governance on Beef Production System

Makiya, Ieda Kanashiro; Fraisse, Clyde W.

doi:10.4067/s0718-27242015000100016

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“…Current literature on power relations in beef supply chains has mostly relied on indirect measures of power such as estimation of the cost of switching suppliers, potential punishment or assistance and favorable market position, rather than directly analyzing power relations (Belaya et al , 2009). For example, Makiya and Fraisse (2015) suggests transnational supermarket chains are the most powerful actors in the Brazil beef supply chain due to comparative advantage in the market. Hendrickson et al (2008) considers processing plant owners as the powerful actors due to their market share in the US beef supply chain.…”

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Power asymmetries in supply chains and implications for environmental governance: a study of the beef industry

Chamanara

Goldstein

Newell

2023

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Purpose Supply chain governance constitutes the rules, structures and institutions that guide supply chains toward various objectives, including environmental sustainability. Previous studies have provided insight into the relationship between governance and sustainability but have overlooked two crucial dimensions: power dynamics and the influence of outside actors. This paper aims to address these two gaps by measuring differential power (i.e. power asymmetries) among actors across the supply chain, including external actors. Design/methodology/approach This paper quantifies power dynamics across the entire chain through a structured survey in which supply chain participants rank their peer’s ability to affect environmental and social outcomes. This paper tests this approach by surveying 200 industry professionals (e.g. feedlot owners, retailers) and external actors (e.g. NGOs) in the US beef sector. Findings Respondents ranked the most powerful actors as follows: feedlot owners; processing plant owners; and regulatory agencies. Results also revealed that trade associations, retailers and cow–calf producers and ranchers perceive a sense of powerlessness. This study reveals multiple power nodes and confirms a shift in the power structure depending on which indicator respondents considered (e.g. environmental impacts vs employee safety). This study concludes that the buyer–producer dichotomy often used to assess supply chain governance fails to capture the complex dynamics among actors within supply chains. Originality/value This study demonstrates a novel approach to measure perceptions of power in supply chains. This method enables researchers to map networks of power across entire supply chains, including internal and external actors, to advance understanding of supply chain governance dynamics. Previous studies have misidentified who governs environmental outcomes in supply chains, and NGOs have overestimated the power of consumers and retailers to influence producers.

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Power asymmetries in supply chains and implications for environmental governance: a study of the beef industry

Chamanara

Goldstein

Newell

2023

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“…Observando os desafios sociais brasileiros abordados sob a ótica das categorias apresentadas na Figura 2, percebe-se uma ênfase em desafios socioecológicos, definidos como desafios sociais que emergem em sistemas naturais. Especialmente, a Amazônia foi abordada em cinco documentos (LOPES; LIMA, 2021;RODE et al, 2019;MEEK, 2016;MAKIYA;FRAISSE, 2015).…”

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Relationship between urban climate and its impact on energy efficiency and environmental performance

Melo,

Gonçalves,

Lima

2023

ENSUS2023 - XI Encontro De Sustentabilidade Em Projeto

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The urban climate is understood as a modification resulting from and introduced in the environment by its urban structure and by the human activities that occur in cities. Its contextualization related to the occupation and planning of urban space leads to new climate patterns, which can transform the environment in which cities are inserted and the thermal comfort of populations. Once the urban climate is modified, it has consequences both on the energy performance of constructions and on environmental issues inherent to the development of urban centers arising from both civil construction and disorderly urban expansion. According to the field of research that studies and evaluates these issues, energy efficiency and environmental performance are directly linked to climate factors, and their improvement provides for a multidisciplinarity between the understanding of the urban climate,human action, energy sustainability and the climate phenomena to bring about a transformation in city and construction projects with the common objective of effectively improving the problems arising from these interactions.

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Life cycle assessment of biodiesel production from beef tallow in Brazil

Sousa

Luz

Caldeira-Pires

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Int J Life Cycle Assess

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Sustainability Initiatives Driving Supply Chain: Climate Governance on Beef Production System

Cited by 8 publications

References 18 publications

Power asymmetries in supply chains and implications for environmental governance: a study of the beef industry

Power asymmetries in supply chains and implications for environmental governance: a study of the beef industry

Relationship between urban climate and its impact on energy efficiency and environmental performance

Life cycle assessment of biodiesel production from beef tallow in Brazil

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