• Additive Manufacturing: Currently a Disruptive Supply Chain Innovation? 

      Engelseth, Per; Salman, Maryam; Mushtaq, Waqas; Awaleh, Fahad; Glavee-Geo, Richard (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Directs attention to additive manufacturing in a supply chain context. Analysis questions the degree it currently is a disruptive innovation. A case study consisting of interviews with 15 companies, including observations of some of these companies, providing a varied set of subcases. The research describes individual companies’ histories of using 3D printing tools, its current use and future ...
    • The Emergent Nature of Networked Sustainable Procurement 

      Engelseth, Per; Glavee-Geo, Richard; Janusz, Arthur; Niboi, Enoch (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-12-25)
      The complex and networked nature of sustainable procurement is evoked through confronting two conceptual models, the triple bottom line-inspired parallel-type “interlocking circles model” with the more systems-oriented series-type “concentric circles model”. This endeavor is integrated with a developed application of contingency theory rooted in network thinking. Two subcase narratives from Ghana, ...
    • Framing Sustainable Exports in Theory and Practice 

      Engelseth, Per; Glavee-Geo, Richard (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-05-26)
      Increasingly exporters need to take into consideration sustainable exports. This paper is an academic exercise that seeks to develop an analytical framework to demonstrate sustainable exports as a market embedded inter-organisational function. Influences of this investigation include institutional economics and sociology. The developed framework guides investigation of three published cases of ...
    • Framing Sustainable Healthcare Services 

      Engelseth, Per; Kozlowski, Remigiusz; Kamecka, Karolina; Gawinski, Lukasz; Glavee-Geo, Richard (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-06-11)
      This paper develops an analytical framework using process thinking to achieve sustainable healthcare services. Healthcare is characterised by low economic efficiency. At the same time, it is embedded in ethical concerns related to society and nature. Healthcare is thus conceptualised as functionality in an ecosystem. The patient is woven into both nature and society. Given the complex nature of ...
    • Power Imbalance and the Dark Side of the Captive Agri-food Supplier–Buyer Relationship 

      Glavee-Geo, Richard; Engelseth, Per; Buvik, Arnt (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-03-19)
      This paper highlights the dark side of power imbalance regarding its consequences in agri-food supplier–buyer relationships. We report on findings from two studies. The first study is based on a sample of 105 key informants, while study 2 is based on a sample of 444 key informants, all from the cocoa agri-food supply market of Ghana. While the first study focuses on the antecedents of power imbalance ...