From the field to the cup, this book investigates sustainability
issues along the coffee supply chain, identifying the challenges that
firms face when they are called to reach sustainability goals. In
particular, it explores the relationships involving the actors
throughout the broad coffee supply chain, among which some tensions
may emerge. Firms increasingly need to interact with various supply
chain members to achieve their sustainability goals and with a variety
of other stakeholders as well, such as NGOs or regulators. Therefore,
in order to fully investigate sustainability, it is fundamental to
adopt a broader view of the supply chain that goes beyond dyadic
relationships (typically, between customer and supplier). This book
adopts an “integrative logic” of sustainability and aims to
explore the “hidden” or “dark side” of sustainable practices
in the supply chain, for example, trade-offs, tensions and
paradoxes. Overlooking these aspects can create serious impediments
to a real-world progress toward sustainability. The empirical part of
the book is focused on the coffee supply chain, which represents one
of the most complex, globalized and inequitable supply chains,
impacting communities and the environment worldwide. These
characteristics make it particularly challenging for the industry to
transition towards sustainability. Sustainability in the coffee sector
is increasingly at risk in economic, social, and environmental terms,
and there are several interdependencies among these three dimensions.
The book will be of great interest to scholars and students of supply
chain management, sustainability, and corporate and consumer
responsibility. In addition, practitioners operating in the coffee
industry could gain interesting findings about the most critical
issues pertaining to sustainable practices and activities.
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Tensions and Paradoxes
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9783031725029
Publisert
2024
Utgiver
Springer Nature
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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