New Issues in Supply Chain Management: Sustainability, Corporate Social Responsibility and Cognitive Bias

供应链管理的新问题：可持续性、企业社会责任和认知偏差

• 批准号: RGPIN-2018-06690
• 负责人: Zhao, Xuan
• 金额: $ 2.62万
• 依托单位: Wilfrid Laurier University
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2022-01-01 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=764556
• 关键词: New; Issues; Supply; Chain; Management

With globalization of the markets, firms have the opportunity to seek out better quality and lower cost goods worldwide, but at the same time face extended and more complex supply chains. Utilizing the tools from operations research/management science and economics, the objective of this research is to explore emerging issues in supply chain management in the areas of sustainability, environmental and social responsibilities, and decision bias.The first research topic concerns the impact of government environmental regulations on supply chain operations. Global warming, water pollution, and landfill waste are causing serious environmental deterioration, prompting industries and governments to take immediate actions. Many countries have implemented, or are debating the implementation of, various regulations to reshape firms/supply chains' productions and operations. We investigate how different environmental policies affect the operational decisions of supply chains, and what type of environmental policy induces better environmental efficiency and supply chain performance, resulting in an overall benefit to society. The second purpose of the research is motivated by the recent news reports about disastrous outcome occurred in global supply chains due to unsafe production practices. In a case study conducted by Sedex, a global non-profit organization that advocates responsible sourcing, it is reported that the risk of social and environmental responsibility violations increases in the higher tiers of the supply chain in both scale and severity. Due to the complexity of global supply chains, the end firms are often not able to obtain and verify upper-tier suppliers' true information/activities. Thus, for multi-tier non-verifiable supply chains, the question posed is how to align the incentive of not only the immediate supplier, but also the upper-tier suppliers to sustain environmental and social regulatory standards. The purpose of this research is to investigate mechanism design to align the incentives of supply chain members to achieve the best possible performance in terms of both profitability and environmental and social impacts. The third research topic is to consider the impact of decision bias on supply chain decisions. Global supply chain managers from different regions might have differing levels of information-processing and decision-making abilities, and many suffer from cognitive bias. We investigate how decision bias affects the operations decisions, and how this in turn affects supply chain coordination and contracts. The results of this research will provide new insights on the sustainable supply chain productions and operations, better align the incentives of supply chain members for a sustainable society, and advance supply chain management theory and practice with the consideration of decision bias.

随着市场的全球化，公司有机会在全球范围内寻求更高的质量和更低的成本商品，但同时面临扩展和更复杂的供应链。利用运营研究/管理科学和经济学的工具，这项研究的目的是探索可持续性，环境和社会责任领域的供应链管理中新兴问题以及决策BIA。第一个研究主题涉及政府环境法规对供应链运营的影响。全球变暖，水污染和垃圾填埋场造成严重的环境恶化，促使工业和政府立即采取行动。许多国家已经实施或辩论实施各种法规，以重塑公司/供应链的制作和运营。我们研究了不同的环境政策如何影响供应链的运营决策，以及哪种类型的环境政策会导致更好的环境效率和供应链绩效，从而对社会带来了整体利益。该研究的第二个目的是由最近的新闻报道引起的，该报告关于不安全的生产实践，全球供应链中发生了灾难性结果。在一个倡导负责任采购的全球非营利组织SEDEX进行的案例研究中，据报道，供应链较高层的较高级别的社会和环境责任风险在规模和严重性方面增加了。由于全球供应链的复杂性，最终公司通常无法获得和验证上层供应商的真实信息/活动。因此，对于多层不可验证的供应链而言，提出的问题是如何使不仅即时供应商的动机保持一致，而且还要使上层供应商维持环境和社会监管标准。这项研究的目的是调查机制设计，以使供应链成员的激励措施保持一致，以在盈利能力，环境和社会影响方面取得最佳绩效。第三个研究主题是考虑决策偏见对供应链决策的影响。来自不同地区的全球供应链经理可能具有不同水平的信息处理和决策能力，许多人都有认知偏见。我们研究决策偏见如何影响运营决策，以及这又如何影响供应链协调和合同。这项研究的结果将提供有关可持续供应链制作和运营的新见解，更好地结合供应链成员为可持续社会的激励措施，并在考虑决策偏见的情况下提高供应链管理理论和实践。