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Theory Building Within Sustainable Operations Management (SOM): An Introduction to Part II

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This part of the book concerns theoretical developments in the sustainable operations management (SOM) research field. Sustainable operations management is a growing research field with clear and distinctive roots in organizational and managerial practice, linking to mainstream research on operations management (Angell & Klassen, 1999; Pagell & Shevchenko, 2014). It has also a strong emphasis on pragmatism, predominantly touting technical papers and best-case examples (Min & Kim, 2012; Seuring & Müller, 2008). For this reason, it has been heralded by managers and other practitioners (Joas, Theobald, McGuinness, Garzillo, & Kuhn, 2013). The route from research results to the practical implementation of concepts in business seen in examples such as the use of life-cycle assessments and cradle-to-cradle principles in public purchasing policies is relatively fast.

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  1. Department of Business and Management, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

    Poul Houman Andersen

  2. Department of Industrial Economics and Technology Management, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

    Poul Houman Andersen

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Houman Andersen, P. (2019). Theory Building Within Sustainable Operations Management (SOM): An Introduction to Part II. In: de Boer, L., Houman Andersen, P. (eds) Operations Management and Sustainability. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93212-5_6

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