Open AccessExpanding boundaries: Nongovernmental organizations as supply chain members
Author(s) -
David G. Hyatt,
Jonathan L. Johnson
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
elementa
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.011
H-Index - 34
ISSN - 2325-1026
DOI - 10.12952/journal.elementa.000093
Subject(s) - supply chain , cognitive reframing , business , sustainability , acknowledgement , context (archaeology) , public relations , supply chain management , stakeholder , marketing , industrial organization , political science , psychology , social psychology , ecology , paleontology , computer security , computer science , biology
Using a social movement perspective, we propose a framework that includes nonprofit actors as members of supply chains in a context that we call sustainable supply chain facilitation, particularly within multi-stakeholder supply chain sustainability initiatives. In this framework, certain nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) work alongside other supply chain firms, going beyond technical roles to serve as coordinators, conveners, organizers, brokers, and negotiators who facilitate multiparty agreement on sustainability issues within and across supply chains. We describe a set of roles consisting of third-party facilitators (3PF), fourth-party facilitators (4PF), and fifth-party facilitators (5PF) serving in increasingly strategic roles with increasing numbers of actors, and with increasing potential for co-creation of value in global supply chains. Reframing nongovernmental organizations as members of supply chains instead of outsiders provides a dramatically different perspective. This explicit acknowledgement of membership can help business and NGO managers to rethink their own roles and motivations and to find collaborative solutions in the steady transition to more sustainable supply chains.