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Abstract
In this study, we attempt to establish the missing links between supply chain sustainability and frugal innovation. Our study motivations stem from two facets of the emerging markets: first, the institutional barriers and, second, the resource constraints. We argue that there is a synergy in the concepts of frugal innovation and sustainability in supply chains and there is a need to further explore this synergy. Furthermore, we claim that even in the wake of many success stories in the frugal innovative supply chain management practices from emerging markets such as India, there are very few, if any, attempts made to understand the implications of a sustainability oriented frugal innovations in the particular context. To address this gap, we develop a model to establish the linkage between sustainable supply chains and frugal innovations. Our proposed conceptual framework depicts the hierarchy and interlinks of the identified enablers in developing sustainability oriented frugal innovative capabilities in supply chains. Furthermore, we have empirically validated our theoretical framework using survey data. We observed that most of the interpretive links are supported. These findings extend the understanding of frugal innovation for supply chain sustainability using multi-method research design, while also providing theoretically guidance to managers in the development of frugal innovation capability to achieve sustainability in supply chain in resource constrained environment.
Acknowledgements
The authors thank the anonymous reviewers and the co-editors of Production, Planning, and Control for their helpful comments.
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Notes on contributors
Dr. K.T. Shibin received his M.S (Industrial Engineering) from National Institute of Technology, Calicut, India and Ph.D. (Supply Chain Management) from Symbiosis International University, Pune, India. He is currently working with The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) as a senior business analyst. He has over 6 years of professional experience in manufacturing and supply chain analytics, simulation and optimization with fortune 500 multinational companies like John Deere, Tata Technologies and Tata Motors. His research articles are published in leading international journals like Annals of Operations Research, Journal of Cleaner Production, International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management, Sustainable Production and Consumption and other reputable outlets.
Dr. Rameshwar Dubey received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in operations management from Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad, India (An Institute of National Importance), research and teaching training at Industrial and Management Engineering, IIT Kanpur, Kanpur, India and M.T.P. from Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, India. He is currently working as an Associate Professor at Montpellier Business School, Montpellier, France. Prior, to joining Montpellier Business School, he was associated as a full time Associate Professor with Symbiosis International (Deemed University), Pune, India and Visiting Professor & Research Fellow with Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzen, China and visiting scholar of leading international business schools from U.S.A., U.K., and China. He is on editorial board of several leading operations and information management Journals. He has co-authored over 110 research articles (SCOPUS database), in leading international technology and operations management journals ranked in ABS 4, ABS 3 and ABS 2. He is also an examiner of Ph.D. theses from France, India, Australia and New Zealand and a regular reviewer of several reputable journals in the field of technology & operations management, general management and industrial engineering. He has successfully guided 3 PhD students as a co-supervisor and over 20 Master Theses in the field of Technology and Operations Management.
Professor Angappa Gunasekaran is Dean and Professor at the School of Business & Public Administration, California State University, Bakersfield. Prior to this, he served as Dean of the Charlton College of Business from 2013 to 2017, Chairperson of the Department of Decision and Information Sciences from 2006-2012, and the founding Director of Business Innovation Research Center (BIRC) from 2006 to 2017 at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. He has over 350 articles published in peer-reviewed journals. He has presented about 50 papers, published 50 articles in conferences, and given a number of invited talks in many countries. He is on the editorial board of several journals. He has organized several international workshops and conferences in the emerging areas of operations management and information systems.
Dr. Zongwei Luo is a researcher and an associate professor in SUSTech located in Shenzhen, China, with over 15 years R&D and project management experiences. Dr. Luo obtained his PHD from University of Georgia, USA, focusing on workflow automation and enterprise integration. After that, Dr. Luo was with IBM TJ Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY, USA, before coming to E-Business Technologies Institute, the University of Hong Kong. Dr. Luo has been actively working on Big Data and Decision Analytics, RFID/Internet of Things, Cognitive and Cloud Computing, with over 100 publications with one best paper award and one best paper nominee in IEEE conferences.
Dr Thanos Papadopoulos is Full Professor of Management (Information Systems/ Operations Management) and the Director of the MBA program at Kent Business School, University of Kent, U.K. He holds a Diploma (M.Eng.) in computer engineering and informatics from the University of Patras, Greece, an M.Sc. in information systems from the Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece, and a Ph.D. in management from Warwick Business School, U.K. His research is located at the nexus of Operations and IT, with a focus on the strategic use of IT for process improvements and sustainability within organizations and supply chains. His articles have been published in leading international journals, such as British Journal of Management, European Journal of Operational Research, International Journal of Operations & Production Management, International Journal of Production Economics, Journal of Business Research, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Annals of OR, Technological forecasting and social change, Journal of strategic Information Systems, Journal of the Operational Research Society, Transportation Research part E, and Production Planning and Control. Thanos is Associate Editor for ‘International Journal of Operations and Production Management’, ‘Benchmarking: an international journal’ and ‘Global journal of flexible systems management’, and sits on the editorial boards of ‘Technological forecasting and social change’ and ‘Industrial Management and Data Systems.
Professor David Roubaud joined Montpellier Business School in April 2011. He is a graduate from HEC School of Management and Sciences Po in Paris. Before completing a PhD in Economics & Finance (2011), he also worked as a consultant in strategy in Russia. Prior to that, he was an associate within the mergers & acquisitions department at Merrill Lynch in New York and London. Previously, he worked as an analyst at Rothschild Bank in Paris. In September 2013 he was appointed Dean of Academic Affairs of MBS and in early 2017, the Deputy Director General. Dr Roubaud has published more than 40 articles in international peer eviewed journals such as International Journal of Production Economics, Energy Economics, Energy Policy,
International Journal of Production Research, Applied Economics, Annals of Operations Research, Technological Forecasting & Social Change, International Journal of Logistics Management, Economic Modelling, Resources Policy, Computational Economics, Journal of Organizational Change Management, Quaterly Review of Economics and Finance, Finance Research Letters, International Review of Financial Analysis, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Economics Bulletin,International Journal of the Economics and Business, Economics Letters. The main area of research interest of application of his research are the real option theory in corporate finance, bitcoins and cryptocurrencies, energy economics, sustainable supply chain, circular economy and big data analytics.