Article
Business
Yann Truong, Hamid Mazloomi, Pascual Berrone
Summary: Research on corporate environmental practices has found that stakeholders exert coercive and normative forces on firms to engage in environmental protection actions. However, little attention has been paid to how different stakeholders evaluate a firm's environmental actions. This study focuses on how environmental actions affect a firm's reputation among industry peers, with symbolic actions having a negative impact and substantive actions improving reputation. Additionally, the study shows that a firm's reporting practices can moderate the negative effects of symbolic actions.
INDUSTRIAL MARKETING MANAGEMENT
(2021)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Jiajia Zhang, Jin Sun
Summary: The study suggests that consumers are more likely to generate positive word-of-mouth for a corporation's substantive environmental actions, with this effect being mediated by other-condemning emotions. Greenwashing perception and other-condemning emotions play significant roles in this process.
Article
Business
Babatunde Ogunfowora, Meena Andiappan, Madelynn Stackhouse, Christianne Varty
Summary: Research suggests that CSR is becoming an ambiguous signal for external stakeholders due to firms of different moral responsibility adopting CSR policies. This has led to rising public skepticism of CSR. This study examines the role of CEO ethical leadership as an alternate source of ethical signals for job seekers, finding that job seekers place more weight on CEO ethical leadership than CSR and that ethical CEOs serve as a rhetorical signal triggering moral elevation. The study also finds that job seekers with strong moral identities are more likely to consider CEO ethical leadership compared to CSR.
JOURNAL OF ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR
(2023)
Article
Business
An-Chih Wang, Yanyu Chen, Sheng-Bin Wang, Yi-Chieh Lin, Chuan-Yu Tseng
Summary: While Western theories suggest that ethical leaders should incorporate role modelling with ethical guidance to promote ethical actions, this study argues that in a non-Western setting like Taiwan influenced by Taoism, the approach of "say less, do more" may be more appropriate. The findings suggest that the ideal content and enactment of ethical leadership vary across cultures.
JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES
(2023)
Article
Management
Cheryl K. Stenmark
Summary: This study examined the effects of transformational and transactional leadership behaviors on follower ethical cognition and perception. The results showed that a match between a follower's sensory processing sensitivity (SPS) and a leader's behaviors can influence followers' ethical perceptions. The findings suggest that organizational leader and management development interventions should encourage leaders to use transformational behaviors to improve followers' ethical perceptions.
JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Social
Yoichiro Hayashi, Hiroyuki Sasaki
Summary: This study examined the regulatory fit between regulatory focus and framing of leaders' messages to motivate their followers. The results showed that leaders tended to choose positively framed messages when conveying promotion-focused messages and negatively framed messages when conveying prevention-focused messages. The effect of regulatory fit on followers' motivation was also examined, and it was found that regulatory-fit messages increased followers' motivation only in the promotion and positive-framing condition.
JOURNAL OF APPLIED SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Social
Tzu-Ting Lin
Summary: This study, drawing on integrated social identity and uncertainty management theories, found that ethical leadership has a stronger indirect effect on team initiative through team identification in highly dynamic work environments. This has significant implications for organizations seeking to strengthen ethical team leadership in highly dynamic work environments.
JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Management
Philipp C. Sauer, Minelle E. Silva, Martin C. Schleper
Summary: This study investigates the impact of supply chain sustainability actions on supply chain resilience and sustainability trajectories. By conducting empirical research in six European countries, the study identifies different supply chain resilience approaches and their influence on supply chain sustainability learning. The findings reveal that different resilience approaches lead to different supply chain sustainability trajectories.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OPERATIONS & PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT
(2022)
Article
Economics
Martin C. Schleper, Constantin Blome, Mark Stevenson, Matthias Thuerer, Iu Tusell
Summary: This paper examines the issue of due diligence in conflict mineral supply chains and highlights the inadequacy of current cost-sharing mechanisms, leading to unintended consequences. The study calls for alternative financing mechanisms and context-specific solutions.
TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH PART E-LOGISTICS AND TRANSPORTATION REVIEW
(2022)
Book Review
Business
Constantin Blome, Stephan Manning, Martin C. Schleper
JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS STUDIES
(2022)
Article
Management
Anthony Alexander, Constantin Blome, Martin C. Schleper, Samuel Roscoe
Summary: This article discusses the theme of managing operations and supply chains in the "new normal" and reviews recent research in this area. It identifies themes related to the Covid-19 pandemic, environmental sustainability, digital technologies, inter-organizational relationships, complexity, and manager cognition. The article provides original insights for improving performance and adding economic and social value in operations and supply chain management.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OPERATIONS & PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT
(2022)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Maria J. Montes-Sancho, Elcio M. Tachizawa, Constantin Blome
Summary: This study examines the impact of environmental and social sustainability asymmetries on the financial and market performance of buyers. Contrary to previous research, the findings indicate that sustainability asymmetries can have a positive effect on financial performance. Furthermore, the study reveals that environmental asymmetries significantly influence firm performance, while social asymmetries do not. Additionally, the effects of asymmetries vary across different environmental sub-dimensions and depend on which party leads the sustainability initiatives.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2022)
Article
Business
Constantin Blome, Antony Paulraj, Lutz Preuss, Jens K. Roehrich
Summary: While trust and opportunism were traditionally considered as opposites, when viewed through the lens of paradox theory, they can coexist and complement each other in achieving sustainability in buyer-supplier relationships. A study using survey data from 259 German firms found that high trust and low opportunism facilitate sustainability collaboration, requiring a resolution strategy. On the other hand, trust and opportunism initially enhance sustainability evaluation, but then decrease, suggesting the need for a paradox acceptance strategy. The effects also vary between younger and mature relationships.
INDUSTRIAL MARKETING MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Article
Management
Sina Duensing, Martin C. Schleper, Christian Busse
Summary: Humanity's intrusion into nature for commercial purposes has negative consequences for biodiversity, ecosystems, local communities, society, and human health. Wildlife trafficking, facilitated by legal supply chains, poses a serious challenge to existing efforts in preventing such activities. This research explores the vulnerability of supply chains to wildlife trafficking and suggests ways to mitigate this problem.
JOURNAL OF SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Article
Business
Izabela Delabre, Joss Lyons-White, Clara Melot, Eirik Ingwardo Veggeberg, Anthony Alexander, Martin C. C. Schleper, Robert M. M. Ewers, Andrew T. T. Knight
Summary: This qualitative study examines stakeholder engagement in the palm oil sustainability network and its implications for addressing deforestation. The study analyzes the priorities, mechanisms, and tools used by different stakeholders and how their engagement or disengagement shapes governance and addresses deforestation.
BUSINESS STRATEGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
(2023)
Article
Business
Antony Paulraj, Christopher Rajkumar, Constantin Blome, Murtaza Faruquee
Summary: This study examines the impact of knowledge acquisition from suppliers on product stewardship and environmental performance. The findings suggest that knowledge acquisition has a double-edged effect, with a positive moderating effect on the relationship between product stewardship and environmental performance. However, this effect is successfully negated when knowledge exploitation and supplier opportunism are maintained at ideal levels.
SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL
(2023)
Review
Engineering, Industrial
Ali Anjomshoae, Ruth Banomyong, Amir Hossein Azadnia, Nathan Kunz, Constantin Blome
Summary: This systematic review identifies and categorizes the themes of sustainable humanitarian supply chain management (SHSCM), with a focus on theoretical development based on categorical analysis of research articles. The study reveals that sustainability in humanitarian supply chains encompasses a wide range of aspects, but social sustainability factors are often overlooked in current models. The insights from this review can support the advancement of theory and policy-driven research in SHSCM.
PRODUCTION PLANNING & CONTROL
(2023)
Article
Business
Mengqi Jiang, Lujie Chen, Constantin Blome, Fu Jia
Summary: Tens of millions of people worldwide are victims of modern slavery, and digital technology can be used to recruit or control them. This research identifies the digital technologies adopted by firms to mitigate slavery risks and explores how institutional changes affect technology adoption. The study reveals that firms respond more positively to government regulations than to NGO initiatives.
TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE
(2023)
Article
Management
Steven Alexander Melnyk, Matthias Thurer, Constantin Blome, Tobias Schoenherr, Stefan Gold
Summary: This study focuses on (re-)introducing computer simulation as a part of the research paradigm and provides guidelines on how to conduct simulation research that advances theory, is relevant, and matters.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OPERATIONS & PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Article
Business
Haris Aslam, Tahir Abbas Syed, Constantin Blome, Asher Ramish, Khawaja Ayaz
Summary: This study examines the paradoxes in enabling supply chain resilience and suggests that firms can manage these paradoxes by developing an ambidexterity capability. The research model investigates the role of social capital in achieving organizational ambidexterity for supply chain resilience. The findings support the overall model, with the exception of cognitive capital not being related to ambidexterity.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT
(2022)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Lars odegaard Bentsen, Narada Dilp Warakagoda, Roy Stenbro, Paal Engelstad
Summary: This study investigates uncertainty modeling in wind power forecasting using different parametric and non-parametric methods. Johnson's SU distribution is found to outperform Gaussian distributions in predicting wind power. This research contributes to the literature by introducing Johnson's SU distribution as a candidate for probabilistic wind forecasting.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2024)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Xing Liu, Qiuchen Wang, Yunhao Wen, Long Li, Xinfang Zhang, Yi Wang
Summary: This study analyzes the characteristics of process parameters in three lean gas ethane recovery processes and establishes a prediction and multiobjective optimization model for ethane recovery and system energy consumption. A new method for comparing ethane recovery processes for lean gas is proposed, and the addition of extra coolers improves the ethane recovery. The support vector regression model based on grey wolf optimization demonstrates the highest prediction accuracy, and the multiobjective multiverse optimization algorithm shows the best optimization performance and diversity in the solutions.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2024)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Cairong Song, Haidong Yang, Xian-Bing Meng, Pan Yang, Jianyang Cai, Hao Bao, Kangkang Xu
Summary: The paper proposes a novel deep learning-based prediction framework, aTCN-LSTM, for accurate cooling load predictions. The framework utilizes a gate-controlled multi-head temporal convolutional network and a sparse probabilistic self-attention mechanism with a bidirectional long short-term memory network to capture both temporal and long-term dependencies in the cooling load sequences. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed method, which can serve as an effective guide for HVAC chiller scheduling and demand management initiatives.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2024)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Zhe Chen, Xiaojing Li, Xianli Xia, Jizhou Zhang
Summary: This study uses survey data from the Loess Plateau in China to evaluate the impact of social interaction on the adoption of soil and water conservation (SWC) technology by farmers. The study finds that social interaction increases the likelihood of farmers adopting SWC, and internet use moderates this effect. The positive impact of social interaction on SWC adoption is more pronounced for farmers in larger villages and those who join cooperative societies.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2024)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Chenghua Zhang, Yunfei Yan, Kaiming Shen, Zongguo Xue, Jingxiang You, Yonghong Wu, Ziqiang He
Summary: This paper reports a novel method that significantly improves combustion performance, including heat transfer enhancement under steady-state conditions and adaptive stable flame regulation under velocity sudden increase.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2024)