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Item Restricted Circular Supply Chain Management and Transition Towards a Circular Economy: A Case Study from an Industrial Service Provider in Renewable Energy Products(Aston University, 2024-01-26) Alakeel, Omar; Batista, LucianoIn the context of escalating environmental concerns, this study investigates the paradigm shift in supply chain management towards sustainability, focusing on the renewable energy sector. This research centres on a case study of an industrial services provider in the UK and Ireland, specialising in renewable energy solutions, particularly wind turbines. The study is pivotal in understanding the strategic transition towards Circular Supply Chain Management (CSCM) in the face of the impending decommissioning of numerous wind turbines across Europe, underscoring the urgency of sustainable end-of-life strategies. The research is guided by three primary research questions: (1) the implementation of CSCM practices by the company, (2) the challenges and opportunities in transitioning from a linear to a circular supply chain model, and (3) the environmental, economic, and social outcomes of this transition, particularly in the context of the Yaw and Pitch gearbox project for wind turbines. The objectives include assessing the strategies and methods employed by the company in implementing CSCM, identifying and evaluating the transition's challenges and opportunities, and analysing the impact of adopting CSCM practices. The study employed a mixed-method approach involving semi-structured interviews with key managers, in-situ observation of the company’s operations, and comprehensive document reviews. This approach facilitated a multi-faceted understanding of the transition process, which involved aligning the company’s strategic and operational approaches to CSCM with broader industry trends and standards. The quantitative component of the study focused on analysing data from secondary data collection through industry reports and internal company documents. This analysis included projection metrics such as Gross Value Added (GVA), Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) impacts, and the avoided waste to scrape for the Yaw and Pitch gearboxes from 2025 to 2035. These projections complemented the qualitative research to understand the long-term economic, environmental, and social benefits of adopting the circular supply chain model. The company's progression towards CSCM, focusing primarily on refurbishing and remanufacturing wind turbine’s Yaw and Pitch gearboxes, represents a strategic shift from a traditional linear model to one emphasising product longevity and sustainability. The economic impacts are substantial, with a projected GVA of £38.9 million from 2025 to 2035 for Yaw and Pitch Gearboxes. This signifies a noteworthy economic contribution stemming from the company's strategic practices in extending the lifespan of gearboxes. Socially, the transition towards circular practices has significant implications, including creating approximately 1,324 FTE positions from 2025 to 2035. This shift reflects the potential of CSCM practices in contributing to regional economic development, social cohesion, and the creation of new skills and knowledge areas in refurbishment, remanufacturing, and sustainable product design. Additionally, the company's focus on refurbishing and remanufacturing gearboxes substantially reduces its waste-to-scrap ratio, aligning with its sustainability goals and diminishing its environmental footprint. This research offers insights into CSCM practices within the renewable energy sector, contributing to the broader understanding of circular economy practices in supply chain management. It highlights the potential of CSCM in fostering regional economic development, social cohesion, and innovation in sustainable product design. The study also underscores the importance of multi-dimensional strategies encompassing economic viability, environmental sustainability, and social responsibility in transitioning to circular supply chain models.24 0Item Restricted Facilitating Incentive Alignment through Contracts for Enhanced Innovation and Supply Chain Resilience: Insights from the Defence Industry(Lancaster University, 2024) Alqahtani, Faris; Stevenson, Mark; Selviaridis, KostasInnovation and supply chain resilience (SCRES) are important objectives that contribute to overall firm performance. Achieving these objectives requires incentive alignment across the supply chain (SC). Contracts are recognised as a well-known solution for aligning incentives in the SC. However, there is limited knowledge of how contracts facilitate incentive alignment to achieve innovation and SCRES. This thesis aims to explore how contracts can contribute to attaining these goals, focusing on the defence industry. The defence industry is a suitable setting due to the prevalent role of alliances of Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) in the manufacture and support of weapon systems and the use of Performance-Based Logistics (PBL) contracts as an alignment strategy. The thesis consists of three papers, each contributing to an improved understanding of how contracts along the SC facilitate the achievement of the overall performance of the customer. The first paper is a systematic literature review that explores performance-based contracts, also known as PBL, between providers and customers in the defence industry. It evaluates how these contracts are measured and identifies factors influencing their effectiveness. Synthesizing 45 peer-reviewed articles, the review identifies 15 factors influencing PBL effectiveness, grouped into six categories: governance, supply chain management, defence buyer input, innovation, environmental factors, and resources and capabilities. The paper extends prior research by developing a classification framework for these factors and highlights several research gaps. The second and third papers address two of these gaps: the lack of research on how contracts between the provider and sub-suppliers facilitate innovation in contracts (i.e., PBLs) between the provider and its customers, and the lack of research on how contracts facilitate SCRES across the SC. The second paper examines contracts between providers and sub-suppliers and aims to explore how incentive alignment through contracting facilitates incremental innovation. It utilises two case studies conducted in different countries, with six embedded cases of sub- supplier contracts, and employing multiple data collection methods, including 21 semi- structured interviews, documents, and other secondary data sources. The findings reveal four strategies for fostering incremental innovation in performance-based contract (PBC) providers and their sub-suppliers. These strategies encompass two contract design strategies: reducing goal incongruence and addressing information asymmetry; as well as two contract management strategies: reducing outcome uncertainty and promoting inter-firm integration between providers and sub-suppliers. This study contributes to the PBC literature, showing the contingent effect during contract design and management of a sub-supplier’s offering (product vs. service), which, in turn, impacts incremental innovation. The research also demonstrates that aligning incentives for innovation outcomes does not solely depend on the type of contract used; specific factors pertaining to contract design and management also play a role. The third paper examines both the upstream and downstream contracts of the focal firm, exploring how contracts facilitate SCRES. Since the SCRES literature lacks any dedicated study of the relationship between contracts and SCRES, a single in-depth case of a global defence manufacturer was undertaken. Multiple data collection methods, including 26 semi- structured interviews, documents, and secondary data, were used to obtain rich insights into the relationship between contracts and different forms of SCRES. The findings highlight the dual role of contracts: they can facilitate persistent forms of resilience for upstream contracts, but they potentially inhibit adaptive forms of resilience for downstream contracts. Including more Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in the contract can improve visibility and enable resilience as persistence; however, this lowers a supplier’s autonomy and adversely affects resilience as adaptation. To counter this effect, the OEM introduced a set of Key Resilience Indicators (KRIs) that were not linked to supplier payments. These KRIs evaluate SCRES without affecting the supplier’s autonomy and, therefore, resilience as adaptation. The study expands on recent SCRES literature to provide a more granular understanding of the relationship between contracts and SCRES forms. More generally, the thesis offers insights into how contracts are designed and managed across the SC to attain innovation and SCRES targets. It also sheds light on the relationship between innovation and SCRES and their impact on the performance of the end customer. The thesis proposes several avenues for future research, including investigating the effectiveness of customer performance by directly contracting with sub-suppliers and bypassing the provider to enhance innovation and SCRES.22 0Item Restricted Impact of Sustainable supply chain management practices on operational performance(Saudi Digital Library, 2023-12-01) Almalki, Sami Salem A; Karami, AzhdarThe increasing global concerns regarding environmental degradation and social responsibility have prompted businesses to recognise the significance of incorporating sustainability principles into their operations. In this study, we seek to investigate the correlation between sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) practices, operational performance, and competitiveness among Indian corporate organisations. The research involves an in-depth case study analysis of selected Indian companies to scrutinise the implementation and execution of SSCM practices. The researcher used a quantitative methodology that involved data gathering through surveys to analyse the findings. The research reveals that there is a direct relationship between implementing Sustainable Supply Chain Management (SSCM) practices and enhanced operational performance. This positive impact was evident in areas such as increased resource efficiency, minimised wastage, and streamlined operations. Also, the findings indicate that SSCM practices play an essential role in boosting competitiveness by encouraging innovation, enhancing stakeholder relationships, and aligning organisational strategies with market conditions. The case study analysis highlights some significant factors that either aid or hinder the effective implementation of Sustainable Supply Chain Management (SSCM) practices within Indian corporate settings. Regulatory standards, customer expectations, and corporate social responsibility are vital drivers for SSCM adoption. However, limited resources, poor supplier involvement and organisational culture pose potential barriers to successful implementation. This original contribution sheds light on the unique dynamics surrounding sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) implemented by Indian corporations. The results suggest that adopting SSCM not only improves operational efficiency but also enhances competitiveness amid global market conditions. These findings have important implications for policymakers and professionals who should prioritise strategic coordination towards overcoming challenges associated with adopting sustainable supply chain management practices to realise complete advantages.67 0Item Restricted An investigation into the impact of sustainable supply chain management practices on the performance of the Gulf Cooperation Council Petrochemical industry(2023-04-06) Alsaif, Abdullah; Shaw, SarahThe Gulf region is the powerhouse of oil industries, which their economies heavily rely on. Owing to the successes built in the Gulf region as the leading oil supplier to the world, in less than fifty years, the region has become among the top ten countries supplying the world with petrochemical products. Eighty per cent of their products are exported to the global markets, contributing heavily to their GDP and creating many jobs in the region. Companies related to the oil industry continually seek to enhance their processes’ effectiveness to create more value. Many scholars and practitioners, even some governments, are looking for supply chain management as a critical business function for improving and creating more value. However, the heavy economic reliance on these industries – besides the reliance on fossil fuels as the primary source of energy in the region with less than one per cent participation in renewable energy – has made the countries in the Gulf region among the top twenty-five air polluted countries. Therefore, sustainability initiatives must be considered in these industries to improve the current situation and enhance the status of companies in global markets, as sustainability is important for success in different markets. Due to the impact of these industries on climate change and the discharge of greenhouse gases, governments in the Gulf region and local and international organisations are working to help these industries improve the situation by enforcing regulations, standards, and practices and monitoring their environmental performance. Currently, governments in the Gulf region are regulating and monitoring the performance of the industries and automatically collating readings related to the level of emissions from these industries. The region has also committed to international agreements like The Global Methane Pledge and COP26. Therefore, this thesis aims to identify the best sustainable supply chain practices, performance measurement methods, and the drivers and barriers to implementing sustainability in the Gulf region. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with participants from the petrochemical industry in the GCC. The present study seeks to contribute to the knowledge about the industries in the Gulf region by creating a better, deeper understanding of how to implement the best sustainable supply chain practices under four pillars: digitalisation, value creation, risk management, and partnership. Plus identified in one matric the key performance indicators to be measured include sustainability and drivers and barriers to implementing sustainability in the petrochemical industry in the Gulf region as a unique context. It also contributed to the Institutional Theory by identifying new sources of pressure to organizations to implement best practices and improve their performance; it identifies self-regulator practices a new informal coercive pressure due to the needs of petrochemical companies to compete in global markets. Plus, partnership as a new and crucial source of mimetic pressures of institutional theory.9 0