Sustainability Risk for Global Production Networks in the Automobile Industry: A Case of Supplier Networks

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  • Jakob E. Beer
  • Jayantha P. Liyanage
چکیده

Sustainability risk for global production networks can be considered more important than ever due to its distributed nature. The automobile industry relies heavily on its global supply networks. Nevertheless, little is being done to improve the sustainability of complex production environments. In practice, there is a number of factors that regulate the sustainability risk in any industry, and this paper pays special attention on how flexibility requirements can help mitigate sustainability risk by reducing the chance of unnecessary supply noncompliance performance.

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تاریخ انتشار 2011