All Outputs (22)

Practically re-imagining business education for sustainability (2025)
Journal Article
Carbone, V., McCarthy, L., & Touboulic, A. (in press). Practically re-imagining business education for sustainability. European Management Journal,

In this reflection piece, we discuss the urgency of transforming business school education in the context of the climate breakdown and biodiversity collapse. We unpack prevailing problematic assumptions in business school education and propose a refl... Read More about Practically re-imagining business education for sustainability.

Academic mothers and the practice of embodied care: navigating and resisting uncaring structures in the neoliberal academy (2024)
Journal Article
Touboulic, A., & Pecis, L. (2024). Academic mothers and the practice of embodied care: navigating and resisting uncaring structures in the neoliberal academy. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal, https://doi.org/10.1108/edi-07-2022-0194

Purpose: Recent research has captured the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in widening gender inequalities, by highlighting that academic women have been disproportionately affected. During the COVID-19 pandemic, women assumed most of the care labour... Read More about Academic mothers and the practice of embodied care: navigating and resisting uncaring structures in the neoliberal academy.

Optimal sustainability efforts and pricing policies in a two-echelon supply chain (2022)
Journal Article
Arbabiun, P., Chutani, A., & Touboulic, A. (2022). Optimal sustainability efforts and pricing policies in a two-echelon supply chain. IFAC-PapersOnLine, 55(10), 1711-1715. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2022.09.644

Stakeholders such as governments, NGOs and customers have made businesses to consider sustainable practices in their operations. Achieving sustainability goals, such as for e.g. carbon emissions reduction often requires coordinated efforts between fi... Read More about Optimal sustainability efforts and pricing policies in a two-echelon supply chain.

Sustainable supply chain management and theory: taking stock and looking ahead (2022)
Book Chapter
Marques, L., Touboulic, A., & Walker, H. (2022). Sustainable supply chain management and theory: taking stock and looking ahead. In S. Childe, & A. Soares (Eds.), Handbook of Research Methods for Supply Chain Management (339-351). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788975865.00027

Action research for supply chain management: reflections and practical guide (2022)
Book Chapter
Touboulic, A., McCarthy, L., Sannö, A., & Reuter, C. (2022). Action research for supply chain management: reflections and practical guide. In Handbook of Research Methods for Supply Chain Management (149-168). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788975865.00014

This chapter offers a guide to conducting Action Research (AR) in the field of supply chain management (SCM). We propose several strategies for researchers, building on past experiences. Reflections are offered on the importance of methodological cho... Read More about Action research for supply chain management: reflections and practical guide.

Practicing sustainability in operations and supply Chain management (2022)
Journal Article
Fritz, M. M. C., Silva, M. E., & Touboulic, A. (2022). Practicing sustainability in operations and supply Chain management. Supply Chain Forum: an International Journal, 23(4), 323-328. https://doi.org/10.1080/16258312.2022.2138160

Grounded in a sustainability-practice approach, this editorial provides reflections on how sustainability can be embedded as part of organisations' daily operations and supply chain management (SCM) practices. Moving away from the understanding of a... Read More about Practicing sustainability in operations and supply Chain management.

(Re)-imagining ecologically harmonious food systems beyond technofixes (2021)
Journal Article
Touboulic, A., & Mccarthy, L. (2021). (Re)-imagining ecologically harmonious food systems beyond technofixes. Revue de l'Organisation Responsable, 16(2), 18-27

This essay draws on the interrelated concepts of imaginary, imagination, and narrative to problematise current approaches to the challenge of creating sustainable food systems. It also leverages these concepts to reassert the importance of radical im... Read More about (Re)-imagining ecologically harmonious food systems beyond technofixes.

‘We're out, so wtf do we do now?’: Brexit and rural identity in the era of online agricultural communities (2021)
Journal Article
Jones-Garcia, E., & Touboulic, A. (2022). ‘We're out, so wtf do we do now?’: Brexit and rural identity in the era of online agricultural communities. Sociologia Ruralis, 62(2), 190-211. https://doi.org/10.1111/soru.12365

This article explores online interactions between members of the UK farming community in the context of Brexit, a moment of great friction within British agriculture. A ‘netnography’ was conducted of thefarmingforum.co.uk, a British-based discussion... Read More about ‘We're out, so wtf do we do now?’: Brexit and rural identity in the era of online agricultural communities.

Who’s Milking It? Scripted Stories of Food Labour (2021)
Journal Article
McCarthy, L., Touboulic, A., & Glover, J. (2022). Who’s Milking It? Scripted Stories of Food Labour. Work, Employment and Society, 36(6), 1038–1059. https://doi.org/10.1177/0950017021997357

This article explores representations of food labour at different stages in the supply chain through a labour process theory perspective. Employing multi-modal critical discourse analysis it analyses visual data collected from three television progra... Read More about Who’s Milking It? Scripted Stories of Food Labour.

The UK construction and facilities management sector's response to the Modern Slavery Act: An intra-industry initiative against modern slavery (2020)
Journal Article
Trautrims, A., Gold, S., Emberson, C., Touboulic, A., & Carter, H. (2021). The UK construction and facilities management sector's response to the Modern Slavery Act: An intra-industry initiative against modern slavery. Business Strategy and Development, 4(3), 279-293. https://doi.org/10.1002/bsd2.158

© 2020 The Authors. Business Strategy and Development published by ERP Environment and John Wiley & Sons Ltd The United Kingdom's Modern Slavery Act exposed companies to a new ethical challenge in their supply chains. An estimated 40.3 million peop... Read More about The UK construction and facilities management sector's response to the Modern Slavery Act: An intra-industry initiative against modern slavery.

Tales from the countryside: Unpacking “passing the environmental buck” as hypocritical practice in the food supply chain (2020)
Journal Article
Glover, J., & Touboulic, A. (2020). Tales from the countryside: Unpacking “passing the environmental buck” as hypocritical practice in the food supply chain. Journal of Business Research, 121, 33-46. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2020.06.066

© 2020 Using a critical power lens and the concept of organisational hypocrisy, we explore how actors across the supply chain have been able to pass risk and responsibility for environmental impacts down the supply chain, in addition to associated ec... Read More about Tales from the countryside: Unpacking “passing the environmental buck” as hypocritical practice in the food supply chain.

Re‐Imagining supply chain challenges through critical engaged research (2020)
Journal Article
Touboulic, A., McCarthy, L., & Matthews, L. (2020). Re‐Imagining supply chain challenges through critical engaged research. Journal of Supply Chain Management, 56(2), 36-51. https://doi.org/10.1111/jscm.12226

In this manuscript we explore how engaged research can support the development of the theory and practice of supply chain management (SCM) and present critical engaged research as an extended form of engaged research. The article's main purpose is to... Read More about Re‐Imagining supply chain challenges through critical engaged research.

Collective action in SCM: a call for activist research (2019)
Journal Article
Touboulic, A., & McCarthy, L. (2019). Collective action in SCM: a call for activist research. International Journal of Logistics Management, The, 31(1), 3-20. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJLM-08-2019-0222

© 2019, Emerald Publishing Limited. Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the current focus of supply chain management (SCM) research; it considers field level and societal constraints and consequently the potential for change. It details... Read More about Collective action in SCM: a call for activist research.

ISO 14001 standard: literature review and theory-based research agenda (2019)
Journal Article
Sartor, M., Orzes, G., Nassimbeni, G., Touboulic, A., & Culot, G. (2019). ISO 14001 standard: literature review and theory-based research agenda. Quality Management Journal, 26(1), 32-64. https://doi.org/10.1080/10686967.2018.1542288

Environmental sustainability has gained momentum in the business world and academia. After about twenty years of research in this field, this paper presents an holistic literature review specifically focused on ISO 14001, which is widely considered t... Read More about ISO 14001 standard: literature review and theory-based research agenda.

Regards critiques en supply chain management (2018)
Journal Article
Camman, C., & Touboulic, A. (2018). Regards critiques en supply chain management. Revue Française de Gestion, 44(277), 109-124. https://doi.org/10.3166/rfg.2019.00294

Cet article se propose d'approfondir la réflexion en Supply Chain Management (SCM) sur les contributions potentielles des Critical Management Studies (CMS). Celles-ci invitent à une réflexivité radicale interrogeant les fondements ontologiques et épi... Read More about Regards critiques en supply chain management.

On the road to carbon reduction in a food supply network: a complex adaptive systems perspective (2018)
Journal Article
Touboulic, A., Matthews, L., & Marques, L. (2018). On the road to carbon reduction in a food supply network: a complex adaptive systems perspective. Supply Chain Management, 23(4), 313-335. https://doi.org/10.1108/SCM-06-2017-0214

Purpose: In acknowledging the reality of climate change, large firms have set internal and external (supplier oriented) targets to reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This study explores the complex processes behind the evolution and diffusi... Read More about On the road to carbon reduction in a food supply network: a complex adaptive systems perspective.

Voiceless but empowered farmers in corporate supply chains: contradictory imagery and instrumental approach to empowerment (2018)
Journal Article
McCarthy, L., Touboulic, A., & Matthews, L. (2018). Voiceless but empowered farmers in corporate supply chains: contradictory imagery and instrumental approach to empowerment. Organization, 25(5), 609-635. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350508418763265

There have been calls for a shift of focus towards the political and power-laden aspects of transitioning towards socially equitable global supply chains. This paper offers an empirically grounded response to these calls from a critical realist stanc... Read More about Voiceless but empowered farmers in corporate supply chains: contradictory imagery and instrumental approach to empowerment.

An exploration of solutions for improving access to affordable fresh food with disadvantaged Welsh communities (2017)
Journal Article
Wang, Y., Touboulic, A., & O'Neill, M. (2018). An exploration of solutions for improving access to affordable fresh food with disadvantaged Welsh communities. European Journal of Operational Research, 268(3), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2017.11.065

Our research is rooted in community operational research (community OR) and adopts a qualitative problem structuring approach to exploring potential solutions for addressing inequality in access to affordable healthy food in disadvantaged communities... Read More about An exploration of solutions for improving access to affordable fresh food with disadvantaged Welsh communities.

Time to get real: the case for critical action research in purchasing and supply management (2016)
Journal Article
Meehan, J., Touboulic, A., & Walker, H. (2016). Time to get real: the case for critical action research in purchasing and supply management. Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management, 22, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pursup.2016.08.006

In fragile and often complex supply chains, PSM failures continue to be reported in the media, often with severe economic, social and environmental consequences. To encourage organisations to engage in responsible PSM, we need engaged research. In th... Read More about Time to get real: the case for critical action research in purchasing and supply management.

Building bridges: towards an alternative theory of sustainable supply chain management (2015)
Journal Article
Matthews, L., Touboulic, A., Power, D., & Marques, L. (2016). Building bridges: towards an alternative theory of sustainable supply chain management. Journal of Supply Chain Management, 52(1), 82-94. https://doi.org/10.1111/jscm.12097

We contend that the development of sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) theory has been impaired by a lack of paradigmatic diversity in the field. The contested nature of the concept of sustainability has been repressed in SSCM theory, which ha... Read More about Building bridges: towards an alternative theory of sustainable supply chain management.