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Anthony Alexander (PhD MBA MA) Lecturer in Opera-ons Management (2017) School of Business, Management & Economics. University of Sussex Prof. Roger Mansfield Post-Doctoral Research Fellow (2015-16), Cardiff Business School. ESRC Doctoral Research Fellow for Sustainable Supply Chain Management (2012-15) , Cardiff Business School . fm10aa@mail.wbs.ac.uk

Work history 1996-2002 Digital broadcast and broadband internet operaBons

Work history 2002-2006 CommunicaBons and sustainability consultancy Incl. Urban Regenera.on, and Climate Change policies

Work history – from policy to applica.on 2006-2010 Director of Research for engineering consultancy London Bridge staBon (The Shard) embodied carbon modelling regarding preserva&on of structural New Towns book elements. Long-term study of economic and social Snow Hill, Birmingham – sustainability. Ins&tute of Civil Engineers award for sustainability (exemplary minimisa&on of Ebbw Vale: Exemplar Sustainable site waste) Community Regenera&on of former Corus Steelworks Social, Economic and Environmental Sustainability

Relevance to resource efficiency, waste management and SSCM? • A) Working with organisa&ons including u&li&es, local authori&es, deprived communi&es, etc. • B) 15 years experience working on sustainability • C) Knowledge of waste management, recycling sector, barriers to ac&on. • D) Understanding of prac&cal reali&es (commercial / poli&cal).

2010-2012 Warwick Business School MBA, plus sustainable business consultancy 2012-2015 ESRC Doctoral Research Fellow in Sustainable Supply Chain Management

• PhD thesis Sustainable Supply Chain Management and Decision Theory: a qualita.ve explora.on using planetary boundaries and social founda.ons.

What are planetary boundaries and social foundaBons? A.k.a ‘Doughnut Economics’ Dr. Kate Raworth’s new model for sustainable development. Used to answer the ques.on: How might social, economic and environmental aspects of sustainable SCM be Source: Oxfam. The 11 dimensions of the social founda.on are balanced? illustra.ve and are based on governments’ priori.es for Rio+20. The nine dimensions of the environmental ceiling are based on the planetary boundaries set out by Rockström et al (2009)

Planetary Boundaries Rockström, J., Steffen, W., Noone, K., Persson, Å., Chapin, F.S., Lambin, E.F.....Schellnhuber, H.J. (2009). A safe operaBng space for humanity . Nature , 461 (7263), 472-475.

Social FoundaBons Libg and Griessler (2005) SD is “ both a norma.ve and analy.cal concept.”

Sustainable Development (SD) is generally cited back to this quote: " Humanity has the ability to make development sustainable to ensure that it meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future genera-ons to meet their own needs. " (Brundtland, 1987) Warm words, but too general to be made opera&onal... The PB+SF framework can be considered as a new defini&on of necessary condi&ons for SD: " to ensure that the use of Earth’s resources achieves the human rights of all – 7 billion people, rising to at least 9 billion – while simultaneously ensuring that the total pressure on Earth systems remains within planetary boundaries. " (Leach, Raworth and Rockstrom, 2011, UNESCO) This was foremost in the minds of the UN working group forming the Sustainable Development Goals

PhD research ques-on: How might social, economic and environmental aspects of sustainable SCM be balanced...in management decision making so that a safe and just future can be achieved? 5 cases across various sectors. Around 40 in-depth interviews Focused on PB+SF awareness, supply chain knowledge, bounded ra&onality, barriers and drivers.

The Cynefin Framework – a systems typology of decision contexts Snowden and Boone (2007) A leader’s framework for decision making, Harvard Business Review, Nov 2007. French, S., Maule, J., Papamichail, N. (2009) Decision Behaviour, Analysis and Support, Cambridge University Press .

Alexander, Walker andNaim (2014) Decision theory in sustainable supply chain management: a literature review, Supply Chain Management: An Interna&onal Journal, vol 5/6, p504-522 Complex Opera-onal Adap-ve Research Systems, So_ (Hard OR) Systems Methodology Leadership, risk, resilience? Bureaucra-c standards and metrics, KPIs, performance

Alexander, Walker andNaim (2014) Decision theory in sustainable supply chain management: a literature review, Supply Chain Management: An Interna&onal Journal, vol 5/6, p504-522 Complex Opera-onal Adap-ve Research Systems, So_ (Hard OR) Systems Methodology Leadership, risk, resilience? Bureaucra-c standards and metrics, KPIs, performance

Academic and funcBonal disciplines at different levels of analysis for SD and PB . Level of analysis Scale Academic discipline / locus Product level Micro Environmental engineering / product design Firm level Micro Opera&ons Management / opera&ons strategy / strategic management. S u p p l y C h a i n Meso Supply Chain Management (incl. procurement & logis&cs) / Level opera&ons strategy / strategic marke&ng / strategic management (verBcal) Sector Level Meso Strategic management (compe&&on & co-opera&on), economics, (Horizontal) strategic marke&ng / macro-marke&ng. N a B o n a l , Macro Public policy / macro-economics / geography & ecology (plus/ R e g i o n a l & incl. industrial ecology / Earth systems science) I n t e r n a B o n a l Level Global Level Macro Earth systems science / ecology / industrial ecology How can the macro scale of PB + SF be linked to the micro scale of firms or communiBes?

END RESULT: Model of substanBve SSCM with drivers and barriers DRIVERS BARRIERS SUBSTANTIAL PB+SF Important firms: Important but problemaBc firms: IMPACTS IN THEIR (to be encouraged and assisted) (to be assisted) SUPPLY CHAIN empowered to influence SC and has Substan&al PB+SF impacts but substan&al PB+SF impact. disempowered to act . Need help to overcome barriers to ac&on, such as no economic alignment, no technical capability for viable alterna&ve, regulatory and compe&&ve barriers etc. INSUBSTANTIAL Less important Less important PB+SF IMPACTS IN legisla&on present (UK building Weak supply chain power. THE SUPPLY CHAIN regula&ons, etc.) but impacts are small. Legisla&on now addresses PB/SF elsewhere in supply chain EMPOWERED TO INFLUENCE THE DISEMPOWERED TO INFLUENCE SUSTAINABILITY OF THE SUPPLY CHAIN: SUSTAINABILITY OF SUPPLY CHAIN:

Current projects • A) The role of circular business models (CBMs) in creaBng sustainable prosperity (New Business Models conference). • B) Old wine in new boiles? How closed loop supply chains, reverse logisBcs and industrial ecology underpin the circular economy concept. (Bri&sh Academy of Management conference) • C) RevisiBng Jevon's Paradox: is eco-efficiency a false hope for sustainable operaBons management? (European Opera&ons Management Associa&on conference)

Avenues for collaboraBon... Mapping impacts and resource flows to help advance social founda&ons within planetary boundaries. Linking PB+SF to SDGs. Role of CE/Waste Mgt in poverty reduc&on. Use of social sustainability data (like UK Indices of Mul&ple Depriva&on) mapped onto geographical areas. Use of satellite applica&ons, mapping and resource flows. Can movement of materials be observed to determine length of supply chains? Role of new technology to alter the value dynamics of recycled materials (collec&on, processing, manufacture, redistribu&on).