A hard nut to crack! Implementing supply chain sustainability in an emerging economy

摘要: In the last decade, sustainable supply chain management has become a key topic in sustainability literature as well buzzword industry and policy circles. Although research made substantial contributions, there is lack of understanding on how focal companies operating emerging economies can lead implementation into their chains. This connects advances constructs cleaner production, chains by exploring classic case company an economy that, even facing considerable challenges, been able to succeed transforming its entire chain. Drawing from stakeholder theory contingency theory, this offers four contributions discourses follows: 1) it proposes innovation-centered approach management, adapting extending TCOS uncertainty framework; 2) suggests that way manages influenced established network relationships shape evolution trajectories; 3) argues are dynamic entities should then be considered understood through lenses evolutionary approaches; 4) context-specific challenges therefore theoretical, managerial generalizations difficult achieved.