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Compliance (2024)
Book Chapter
Torres, L. D. (2024). Compliance. In L. Matthews, L. Bianchi, & C. Ingram (Eds.), Concise Encyclopedia of Corporate Social Responsibility (18-22). Edward Elgar Publishing

Compliance has become prevalent worldwide and especially following the passage of various national regulations such as the United States’ Sarbanes–Oxley Act, Australia’s Corporate Law Economic Reform Program Act, and the UK Bribery Act. The cost of b... Read More about Compliance.

Broadening the scope of OSCM scholarship on diversity, equity, and inclusion: Justice, paradox, and dialectical lenses (2024)
Journal Article
Matthews, L., Gold, S., & Schleper, M. C. (2024). Broadening the scope of OSCM scholarship on diversity, equity, and inclusion: Justice, paradox, and dialectical lenses. Production and Operations Management, https://doi.org/10.1177/10591478241243384

Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) has been gaining attention in operations and supply chain management (OSCM) research but is often narrowly framed and dominated by instrumental logic. We offer three lenses that potentially broaden the scope of... Read More about Broadening the scope of OSCM scholarship on diversity, equity, and inclusion: Justice, paradox, and dialectical lenses.

Concise Encyclopedia of Corporate Social Responsibility (2024)
Book
Matthews, L., Bianchi, L., & Ingram, C. (Eds.). (2024). Concise Encyclopedia of Corporate Social Responsibility. Edward Elgar Publishing

This Concise Encyclopedia is an interdisciplinary overview of the field of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). It not only incorporates well-established concepts proffered by highly influential voices, but also captures the perspectives of tomorro... Read More about Concise Encyclopedia of Corporate Social Responsibility.

Visual Analytics of Contact Tracing Policy Simulations During an Emergency Response (2022)
Journal Article
Sondag, M., Turkay, C., Xu, K., Matthews, L., Mohr, S., & Archambault, D. (2022). Visual Analytics of Contact Tracing Policy Simulations During an Emergency Response. Computer Graphics Forum, 41(3), 29-41. https://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.14520

Epidemiologists use individual-based models to (a) simulate disease spread over dynamic contact networks and (b) to investigate strategies to control the outbreak. These model simulations generate complex ‘infection maps’ of time-varying transmission... Read More about Visual Analytics of Contact Tracing Policy Simulations During an Emergency Response.

Worker-less social responsibility: How the proliferation of voluntary labour governance tools in seafood marginalise the workers they claim to protect (2022)
Journal Article
Decker Sparks, J. L., Matthews, L., Cárdenas, D., & Williams, C. (2022). Worker-less social responsibility: How the proliferation of voluntary labour governance tools in seafood marginalise the workers they claim to protect. Marine Policy, 139, Article 105044. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2022.105044

In response to labour and human rights violations onboard fishing vessels, the private sector is increasingly relying on market-based solutions in the form of voluntary, non-governmental social governance tools to improve working conditions for fishe... Read More about Worker-less social responsibility: How the proliferation of voluntary labour governance tools in seafood marginalise the workers they claim to protect.

Building Novel Supply Chain Theory Using “Metaphorical Imagination” (2021)
Journal Article
Stephens, V., Matthews, L., Cornelissen, J., & Rowlands, H. (2022). Building Novel Supply Chain Theory Using “Metaphorical Imagination”. Journal of Supply Chain Management, 58(1), 124-139. https://doi.org/10.1111/jscm.12257

In this paper, we explore how supply chain theorists can engage with metaphorical imagination to develop supply chain theory. Our main purpose is to provide additional useful guidance on how scholars can approach the method of metaphoric transfer. To... Read More about Building Novel Supply Chain Theory Using “Metaphorical Imagination”.

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.

Knowledge Diffusion in a Global Supply Network: A Network of Practice View (2019)
Journal Article
Marques, L., Yan, T., & Matthews, L. (2020). Knowledge Diffusion in a Global Supply Network: A Network of Practice View. Journal of Supply Chain Management, 56(1), 33-53. https://doi.org/10.1111/jscm.12214

This study investigates how knowledge diffusion occurs in a globally dispersed supply network, wherein buying firms and suppliers often do not have strong relationships and competitive tensions prevail. We elaborate the Network of Practice (NoP) view... Read More about Knowledge Diffusion in a Global Supply Network: A Network of Practice View.

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.

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.