Social and Environmental Dimensions of Organizations and Supply Chains

Section 1 - Performance management for sustainable supply chain management.- 2. Opportunities of combining sustainable supply chain management practices for performance improvement (J. K. Campos & T. Rebs).- 3. Interactions along the supply chain for building and deploying dynamic capabilities ( D. Zvezdov & R. Akhavan) .- 4. Towards the integration of sustainability metrics into the Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) model (M. Stohler, T. Rebs, & M. Brandenburg).- 5. Enabling a supply chain-wide sustainability assessment - A focus on the electronics and automo-tive industries (M. M. C. Fritz, J.-P. Schöggl, & R. J. Baumgartner) .- 6. Sustainable development partnerships - Development of an estimation model of CO2 and cost saving potentials in German foundry value chains (R. C: Fandl & T. Held).- 7. Assessing the Triple Bottom Line dimensions in supply chain networks - The case of the Alpaca fibre industry in Peru (A. J. Castro Jara & A. Halog) .-Section 2- Sustainability in operational processes and specific applications.- 8. Global sustainable supply chains - Why nobody could be held responsible for something he hasn't done? How everybody is responsible for everything. (C. Stehr & F. Struve).- 9. Quantitative modeling of sustainability in inter-organizational supply chains (T. Rebs) .-10. Supply chain risk management in sustainable sourcing - Challenges and opportunities of sustain-able requirements in purchasing (E. Sucky & I. Zitzmann).- 11. Management of conflict minerals in automotive supply chains - Where to start from? (M. M. C. Fritz) .- 12. Implementing sustainable supply chain management - A literature review on required purchas-ing and supply management competencies (L. Bals & H. Schulze).- 13. Social and Environmental Impact of Route Optimization Methods - Case study in automobile distribution (T. Wensing).- 14. Sustainability and new product development - Five exploratory case studies in the automotive industry

Marcus Brandenburg, Prof. Dr. habil., is Professor for Logistics and Supply Chain Management at Flensburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany. He has obtained a doctoral and a higher doctoral degree at the University of Kassel, Germany. His expertise includes model-based research on Sustainable Supply Chain Management. Marcus Brandenburg has authored numerous scientific journal papers and has also given various talks on that topic at scientific conferences. Moreover, he is co-editor of the book "Eco-Innovation and the Development of Business Models" published in the Springer book series "Greening of Industry Networks Studies".Gerd J. Hahn, Prof. Dr., is Professor of Operations Management and Process Innovation at German Graduate School of Management & Law in Heilbronn/Germany. He is a former top management consultant and has obtained a doctoral degree from Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt/Germany. His research interests include model-drivenapproaches and decision support systems for operations and supply chain management in the manufacturing sector. Moreover, Gerd Hahn is working on topics in the field of innovation management of industrial and logistics processes with a focus on strategy and leadership.



Tobias Rebs, M.A. in Sustainable Management and Economics, is a research and teaching assistant at the Chair of Supply Chain Management of the University of Kassel, Germany. His research concentrates on stakeholder and risk management for sustainable supply chains. Methodologically, his expertise covers empirical research and content analysis as well as system dynamics modeling.