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ABSTRACT
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) can take advantage of existing market limitations by offering new sustainable technologies and business models. The literature on open innovation examines the capabilities of firms to integrate external actors in order to create value. In this context, the research highlights the need to understand practices, the processes implemented and the interfaces between certain internal functions and suppliers of SMEs. Our study is based on SMEs in the textile industry and allows us to observe the practices of sustainable purchasing and supply management in a type of organisation and an industry that are not often addressed in the literature. Our results highlight open innovation as a practice within a sustainable supply chain that offers opportunities for mutual gain and learning without creating imbalance between customer and supplier and by developing sustainable purchasing.
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Notes
2. UIT (Union des Industries) (2019). Sustainable development. http://www.textile.fr/developpement-durable-normalisation/
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Laurence Viale
Dr. Laurence Viale holds a PhD in Management Sciences and is Associate Professor at Ecole de Management de Strasbourg (University of Strasbourg-France). Member of Humans and Management in Society (HuManiS), her research interests include roles of Purchasing agents in the innovation process, purchasing skills and intra-organisational relationship and more recently supply chain digitalisation, resilience and sustainable SC. She has twenty years of experience in Strategic Buying and corporate sourcing and as an IT engineer. email: [email protected]
Stéphano Vacher
Dr. Stéphano Vacher holds a PhD in Management Sciences obtained at University of Clermont-Ferrand in 2019 and is Assistant Professor at EM Strasbourg-UNISTRA since 2021. Is the Head of the Master DEVOOS IOT, Strategic Axis on BACHELOR International Affairs. He is member of HuManiS, his main areas of research interest are innovation, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate Strategy, Governance, and Value Creation. His current research focuses on technical innovation, firm’s CSR involvement and R&D activity and a new focus concern sustainable supply chain relationships and eco-innovation. He is also a member of the AIMS, RIRL, RIODD and CSR & Value Chair. He has more than fifteen years of experience in Marketing Strategy, Sales, Business Consulting and as Sales engineer. email: [email protected]
Isaline Frelet
Isaline Frelet is a procurement professional, currently Sustainable Purchasing Project Manager at Rolex. A graduate of the Strasbourg School of Management and the IAE of Marne-La-Vallée, she began her career in purchasing in the luxury sector and then managed start-ups in the Social and Solidarity Economy in Santiago, Chile. Back in France, she assists companies in the diagnosis of their purchasing practices and in the implementation of an adapted responsible purchasing strategy.