The sustainable agenda has yet to find its way into textbooks within SCM. Besides sporadic paragraphs, and a occasional chapter (very rare!), most textbooks are centered around traditional performance objectives followed by related strategies and structures. Even titles of the textbooks contain more or less the same wording but in different order; operations, logistics, management, strategic, supply chain, planning, production………
Gyöngyi and I (Árni) want to do something about that.
We want to bring the sustainable agenda into the class-room in a format other than of journal articles. We want to experiment with disintermediation and the idea of open access.
More to follow on…..SCM for societal impact.
Árni
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A good way of doing this is to send your articles to the authors of the best selling textbooks in SCM and OM. Mention how they fit in with particular topics in their textbooks. I actually met Bill Stevenson (Operations Management, McGraw-Hill) and he was actually looking for sustainability articles and ideas (it is a running theme he wishes to introduce) into his textbook. So if you see authors of popular textbooks, go up to them and talk it up.
Hi Joe,
That may be the way to go, i.e. to authors and not leave this to the publishers. Recently I reviewed a textbook in Logistics for a publisher where I recommended a stronger profile in CSR, sustainability and reverse logistics. This book has now a green cover.