Reimagining Supply Chain Management

To challenge conventional approaches in supply chain management, the team is pursuing a research agenda that combines theoretical rigor with practical, societal, and ecological relevance. The team aims to make new theoretical contributions that can better capture the complexity of supply chains and how they interact with the rest of the world, as well as to conduct empirical studies that refine supply chain theory. Our ultimate goal is to contribute to the development of sustainable supply chain management practices.

Several article recently coauthored by Andreas Wieland reinterpret supply chains as social-ecological systems and resilience in terms of persistence, adaptation, and transformation. One of our recent achievements is the publication of an article by Amanda Bille and Christian Hendriksen that relates to the Initiative. The article entitled “Let us get contextual: Critical realist case studies in supply chain management” presents a novel framework for understanding the dynamics of supply chains and offers insights into how they can be managed more effectively. In the future, we plan to continue our research and to share our findings through talks and presentations at conferences and other events.

Bille, A., & Hendriksen, C. (2022). Let Us Get Contextual: Critical Realist Case Studies in Supply Chain Management. Supply Chain Management: An International Journal. https://doi.org/10.1108/SCM-03-2022-0119

Wieland, A. (2021). Dancing the supply chain: Toward transformative supply chain management. Journal of Supply Chain Management, 57(1), 58–73. https://doi.org/10.1111/jscm.12248

Wieland, A., & Durach, C. F. (2021). Two perspectives on supply chain resilience. Journal of Business Logistics, 42(3), 315–322. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbl.12271

Wieland, A., Stevenson, M., Melnyk, S. A., Davoudi, S., & Schultz, L. (2023). Thinking differently about supply chain resilience: what we can learn from social-ecological systems thinking. International Journal of Operations & Production Management, 43(1), 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJOPM-10-2022-0645

If you would like to learn more about the Reimagining Supply Chains Initiative, please contact Andreas Wieland at awi.om@cbs.dk. We welcome the opportunity to discuss our research and to collaborate with others who share our passion for advancing supply chain management research and practice.