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Newton Workshop: Waste Management & Resource Efficiency

Dr Alison Ashby

• Tri-cameral approach

to sustainability

– Teaching – Opera@ons – Research

My Background

• 20 years working in the UK clothing & tex@le industry
• Range of roles:

– Design & IT – Interna@onal sales – Commercial management – Business development

• Wealth of experience:

– Mee@ng customer requirements – Product & service development – Working with global factories, distributors & suppliers – Project, cri@cal path & supply chain management – Achieving business growth & profit

Current Role

• Working at Plymouth Business School
• Associate Dean Interna@onal
• Responsible for all aspects of interna@onalisa@on for the

Faculty of Business

• Establishing recruitment partnerships, overseas delivery

& research collabora@ons

• Lecturer in Opera@ons Management
• Teaching UG & PG modules in Opera@ons, Supply Chains

& Sustainable Business

• Programme Lead BA (Hons) Interna@onal Business
• Managing all aspects, including overseas placements

Doctoral Research

• Inspired by working with UK retailer, Marks & Spencer

– Introduced Fairtrade & organic coZon clothing in 2006 – How to achieve a balance between economic, environmental & social performance – Social dimension underrepresented in research & prac@ce – In-depth case studies of 4 exemplar UK clothing SMEs – Use of mul@ple theore@cal lenses to develop enhanced SSCM framework

Environmental Performance Economic Performance Social Performance

Sustainability

Alignment of Lenses and Reviewed Literature

Theore@cal Lenses

Theoretical Lens Foundation Alignment with Literature Resource Based View Strategy/strategic management GSCM, processes, resource efficiency, RL, EM, recycling, reuse, DfE, knowledge sharing & integra@on of external resources Social Network Theory Social sciences/social psychology SCM, Supply Chain Orienta@on, EM, CLSC, product stewardship (RL, recycling, reuse) Social Capital Theory Social sciences Supply chain rela@onships, social resources, CSR, Fairtrade, supply management (economic & natural capital)

Interac@on between the Theore@cal Lenses

RBV

Strategic resources:

• Valuable
• Rare
• Inimitable
• Non-subs@tutable

Socially complex resources Tacit resources Embeddedness

Social Network Theory

Organisa@onal outcomes: Rela@onal

• Strength of @es
• Trust
• Social meanings

Structural

• Content flows

Social Capital Theory

Resources embedded in social structure of rela@onships

• Beliefs
• Trust
• Norms
• Rules
• Networks

Structural

• PaZern of connec@ons

Rela@onal-cogni@ve

• Personal
• Shared meaning/

understanding

How a firm approaches profit, growth and commerciality and how they align with firm specific commitments/purpose How a firm structures its supply chain - encapsulates new and/or local supply chains, and preserva@on and posterity Specific owner-manager principles & commitments Shared principles Trus`ul, respec`ul rela@onships Making a difference ‘Human’ elements – employees & suppliers Emo@ons/personal interac@ons/friendships Shared understanding Firm specific prac@ces – environmental & social Level of eco literacy Product – design/development, lifecycle, authen@city Use & development of resources – efficient, effec@ve, mindful

People Principles Prac>ce

RBV Dimensions

• Resources
• Tacit skills
• Embeddedness
• Innova@on

Social Capital Dimensions

• Social structure
• Personal
• Rela@onships

Social Capital Dimensions

• Trust & respect
• Beliefs
• Shared meaning

Social Network Dimensions

• Rela@onships
• Embeddedness
• Connec@ons

Culture

Ashby, Leat & Hudson Smith (2012) 'Making Connec@ons: a review of supply chain management and sustainability literature', Supply Chain Management: an Interna4onal Journal, Volume 17, Issue 5, pp. 497-516 Ashby (2016) ‘From Global to Local: Reshoring for Sustainability’, Opera4ons Management Research

Key Publica@ons

Current Research Focus

• Closed Loop Supply Chains

– Mechanism to maximise resource u@lisa@on & minimise waste – Major challenges in their global implementa@on – Need for a more holis@c, systems-based approach

• Reshoring for sustainability

– How ‘local’ supply chains can enable SSCM – Role of supplier rela@onships – Visibility & transparency

• How to embed the social dimension in sustainability

research & prac@ce

– Appropriate theore@cal lenses

• How to design the supply chain for sustainability

– Implemen@ng closed loops

• Build on exis@ng research links in Brazil

– Opportunity for research into sustainable energy supply chains

Areas for Collabora@on

Dr Alison Ashby Lecturer in Opera@ons Management Associate Dean Interna@onal Faculty of Business Plymouth PL4 8AA Telephone: +44 (0)1752 585664 Email: alison.ashby@plymouth.ac.uk