Jeremy Hall

University of Nottingham | Notts · International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility (ICCSR)

Purpose The research is based on a critically analyzed literature review focused on the unanticipated outcomes, trade-offs and tensions of sustainable operations and supply chain management (OSCM), including the articles selected for this special issue. Design/methodology/approach The authors introduce the key concepts, issues and theoretical foun...

Purpose - We introduce the key concepts, issues and theoretical foundations of this special issue on "The hidden side of sustainable operations and supply chain management (OSCM): Unanticipated outcomes, trade-offs and tensions". We explore these issues within this context, and how they may hinder our transition to more sustainable practices. Desi...

It is widely acknowledged that entrepreneurship can help the poor escape poverty. However, while many people in impoverished regions engage in entrepreneurial activities, many fail to develop successful businesses. This paper examines why impoverished people may choose to engage in entrepreneurship, the characteristics that shape their entrepreneur...

Special issue call for papers from International Journal of Operations & Production Management: The hidden side of sustainable operations and supply chain management: Unanticipated outcomes, trade-offs and tensions Submission due date: 31 May 2019 Reviewer first report: 31 July 2019 Revised paper submission: 31 October 2019 Reviewer second reports...

Technological entrepreneurship has been widely acknowledged as a key driver of modern industrial economies, and more recently, a panacea for environmental and social problems. However, our current understanding of how green-technology ventures emerge and diffuse more sustainable innovations remains limited. We advance theory on green entrepreneursh...

We explore how income differences influence heterogeneous entrepreneurial responses to the institutional environment in Brazil shapes low-income entrepreneurs' propensity to exploit the informal rather than the formal economy. Drawing on the Brazilian Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) data, entrepreneurship discourse and institutional theory, w...

Innovation has been widely acknowledged as a key mechanism for addressing sustainable development concerns. However, less attention has focused on downstream commercialization challenges such as achieving increasingly complex and stringent regulatory approval. Such challenges may hinder the development of more sustainable technologies, especially t...

We explore how income differences influence heterogeneous entrepreneurial responses to the institutional environment in Brazil shapes low-income entrepreneurs' propensity to exploit the informal rather than the formal economy. Drawing on the Brazilian Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) data, entrepreneurship discourse and institutional theory, w...

We explore how a standardization effort (i.e., when a firm pursues standards to further innovation) involves different search processes for knowledge and innovation outcomes. Using an inductive case study of Vanke, a leading Chinese property developer, we show how varying degrees of knowledge complexity and codification combine to produce a typolog...

We propose reforming the Brazilian regulatory safety framework (BRSF) for offshore oil and gas production and drilling operations. Brazil has emerged as a leading offshore producer with extensive proven reserves yet to be exploited. However, the BRSF has not been updated since 2007, and there are now major concerns about the industry׳s safety, part...

OVERVIEW: We discuss the challenges of managing university intellectual property (IP) for applications in diverse settings that are often inadequately served by standard IP management approaches. Strategies focused on profit appropriation through legal mechanisms and control of key resources may work in some industrial settings, but may hinder inno...

Entrenched poverty and persistent inequality persists throughout Latin America. We propose that a potential solution to rectify this problem is to better integrate countries' national systems of innovation policies with their inclusive growth agendas. Drawing on a preliminary assessment of Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama and Peru, we fou...

Two challenging imperatives we face today are the amelioration of global poverty and reducing environmental impacts such as global climate change. This article discusses these challenges in the ‘Base of the Pyramid’ (BOP), impoverished socio-economic groups from underdeveloped regions that have traditionally been excluded from economic participatio...

Technovation journal has published a number of papers on the topic of innovation and entrepreneurial dynamics. This research field has been termed as 'Base of Pyramid' (BoP), emerging as one of the key research areas for a wide number of researchers. Researchers have discussed radical and complex reengineered product innovations in the context of b...

This article investigates legitimization processes and organizations' strategies for developing and diffusing new technologies. Drawing on cases in agricultural transgenic technology and genomics in forestry, the authors provide a framework to help managers develop strategies for more efficient technology development and diffusion. Strategies that...

This article investigates legitimization processes and organizations' strategies for developing and diffusing new technologies. Drawing on cases in agricultural transgenic technology and genomics in forestry, the authors provide a framework to help managers develop strategies for more efficient technology development and diffusion. Strategies that...

This Policy Brief explores how potential economic and social benefits of applied research can be more fully realized. Structural hurdles that prevent innovations from making the leap ‘from lab to living room’ are considered. Two projects funded by Genome Canada are used to illustrate the challenges of innovation, emphasizing the need to build econo...

This paper introduces a holistic approach to the study of sustainable development of global product chains. We first present a number of perspectives on this topic from disciplines such as economic geography, management science, sociology and environmental sciences. Each of these approaches brings in a specific focus: the consequences of geographic...

Innovation has been widely regarded as a panacea for sustainable development, but there remains considerable uncertainty about how it will lead to a more sustainable society. We analyze the role of innovation and business models for the link between the integration of sustainable management with other corporate functions and the economic and enviro...

This paper explores why firms should include sustainable development considerations in supply chains as a means of improving social and environmental impacts of production systems. The recognition of financial, social and environmental elements however creates greater complexity, which makes optimisation approaches to sustainable supply chain probl...

abstractPolicy makers often see entrepreneurship as a panacea for inclusive growth in underdeveloped ‘Base of the Pyramid’ (BOP) regions, but it may also lead to unanticipated negative outcomes such as crime and social exclusion. Our objective is to improve the understanding of how entrepreneurship policies can lead to socially inclusive growth at...

Prepared for Genome BC by the GSEAC Sub-committee: R. E. Ommer (chair), J. Atkinson-Grosjean, C. Benoit, N. R. Caron, R. Downey, J. K. Hall, J. E. Halliwell, B. Kingwell, G. C. van Kooten. http://www.genomebc.ca/files/3113/3132/3486/Bottlenecks_Final2.pdf

The replacement of petroleum-based feed stocks with more environmentally sound alternatives has gained widespread interest in a number of industries. Sustainably managed, forest biomass can be a key driver in this transition by providing a source of biofuels, chemical feedstocks and lignin-based polymers. New genomic and metagenomic approaches can...

This paper analyzes the evolution of five electricity distribution companies in the Northeast of Brazil using technical and financial indicators. Three privatized and two public firms were analyzed between 1997 and 2008. The financial indicators are used as proxies for the capacity of the business to generate value for shareholders, while the techn...

This article discusses the emerging research concerned with sustainable development and entrepreneurship, which is the focus of this special issue of the Journal of Business Venturing. Entrepreneurship has been recognized as a major conduit for sustainable products and processes, and new ventures are being held up as a panacea for many social and e...

This paper analyzes the evolution of five electricity distribution companies in the Northeast of Brazil using technical and financialindexes. Three privatized and two public firms were analyzed between 1997 and 2008. The financial indexes are related to the profitability andfirm’s capacity of generating value for its shareholders, while the technic...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore recent calls to include social and environmental considerations in supply chains by analyzing the sourcing of raw materials from impoverished communities to reduce environmental impacts and social exclusion in biofuels production. Design/methodology/approach – A case study methodology based on inter...

This paper analyzed the evolution of five electricity distribution companies in the Northeast of Brazil using technical and financial indexes Three privatized and two public firms were analyzed between 1997 and 2008 The financial indexes are related to the profitability and firm's capacity of generating value for its shareholders, while the technic...

Increasing interest in biofuels trade between developed and developing countries has spurred worldwide discussions on issues such as subsidies and the ‘food for fuel’ crisis. One issue missing in recent discourse is the pressure exerted on developing countries to adopt large-scale mechanized farming practices to increase economic efficiencies. Such...

Many argue that transgenic technology will have wide-ranging implications for farmers in developing nations. A key concern is that competencies may be destroyed by predominantly foreign multinational transgenic technologies, exacerbating problems of social exclusion in the case of subsistence farmers. Conversely, those that fail to adopt the techno...

It is widely accepted that firms play an important stewardship role in addressing sustainable development concerns. A key challenge in this role is to balance the often conflicting pressures created by sustainable development—firm-level economic performance versus environmental degradation and social disruption. Drawing on complexity theory, risk m...

This article explores the variables that drive small firms to choose quasi-integration as an alternative to vertical integration in situations of high asset frequency. Drawing on transaction cost theory and institutional approaches, we develop and test several hypotheses regarding quasi-integration among homebuilders and land developers in a major...

We investigate the entrepreneurial opportunities and ethical dilemmas presented by technological turbulence. More specifically we investigate the line between Baumol’s [J. Polit. Econ. 98 (1990) 893] productive (e.g. innovation), unproductive (e.g. rent seeking) and destructive (e.g. criminal) entrepreneurship through three examples of Internet inn...

This paper analyzes Canadian Government attempts to encourage and measure commercialization of university knowledge for socio-economic improvement. Universities are regarded as major, insufficiently exploited, repositories of knowledge. Here, paths by which knowledge can be transferred across institutional boundaries, and various input and output/o...

This chapter proposes a model describing why firms should invest in environmental supply chain innovation or ‘green supply’ activities. It argues that large high profile companies are under pressure from a wide range of stakeholders to improve their environmental performance. In contrast, small supplier firms are under less pressure, but are highly...

In this article, the authors review various streams of research suggesting that although companies are increasingly under pressure to manage conflicting or difficult-to-reconcile stakeholder demands, managers are still largely behind the curve in recognizing, justifying and developing the capabilities to do so. In contrast to primary stakeholders s...

Contemporary frameworks for evaluating technological innovations contend that innovative success is dependent upon the ability of firms to acquire and assimilate new knowledge without disrupting value chain members such as suppliers, customers and complementary innovators. These frameworks, however, provide little advice on how to deal with radical...

This article further develops a theory of guided preparation and new venture performance and tests its fundamental relationships on a sample of 159 new ventures that received outsider assistance 5–9 years earlier and had been in business for 3–8 years. The results suggest that the long-term growth of the ventures since start-up is significantly rel...

summaryThis paper discusses some of the trends and emerging issues in corporate sustainable development innovation (SDI). In the last few years sustainable development pressures have been recognized as a serious challenge and major strategic issue by managers. Although pressures vary across industrial and national contexts, they are increasingly ch...

This article explores the variables that drive small firms to choose quasi- integration as an alternative to vertical integration in situations of high asset frequency. Our study provides new insights by focusing on (1) the preferences of small, vulnerable firms, and (2) an institutionalized form of quasi- integration. The findings indicate that th...

To foster sustainable development, an innovation strategy must have vision that transcends a maelstrom of complex, and sometimes contradictory, demands.

The purpose of this paper is to explore the dynamics of environmental innovation using the case of Ballard Power System’s Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) fuel cell technology. Many have argued that this technology offers considerable environmental benefits and may surpass the internal combustion engine as the dominant vehicular power source. However...

The UK launch of the Science Enterprise Challenge in 1999 has stimulated interest in the evolutions of science-based firms and this paper argues that Popper’s seminal diverse contributions to philosophy are directly relevant to them. It begins by commenting on the applications of both Kuhn’s and Popper’s concepts to technological (as against) scien...

This paper explains how a class of IT-intensive capital goods called control systems are used to co-ordinate the flow of goods, traffic, materials, funds, services or information through complex supply, production or distribution systems. The paper examines how they increase productivity by improving the utilization of installed capacity, creating...

This paper investigates the circumstances under which “environmental supply chain dynamics” (ESCD) emerge. ESCD are a phenomenon where environmental innovations diffuse from a customer firm to a supplier firm. Its relevance is based on the argument that systemic approaches are needed to understand the environmental implications of industrial system...

The objective of this paper is to increase our understanding of knowledge management policies in project-based organisations from a human resource management perspective, a neglected dimension in the knowledge management discourse (Scarbrough & Swan, 1999). We hypothesise that incentive structures play a major role in the operational success or fai...

There has been much discussion regarding the potential environmental benefits and hazards associated with agricultural biotechnology. Some argue that it can eliminate the need for a wide range of material inputs such as pesticides and herbicides. Others argue that it will increase the demand for non-sustainable and potentially hazardous `agri-busin...

We investigate the entrepreneurial opportunities and ethical dilemmas presented by technological turbulence. More specifically we investigate the line between productive and unproductive (i.e. illegal or unethical) entrepreneurship (Baumol 1990) through three examples of Internet innovation—spam, music file sharing, and Internet pharmacies. The eme...

This paper analyzes the evolution of five electricity distribution companies in the Northeast of Brazil using technical and financial indexes. Three privatized and two public firms were analyzed between 1997 and 2008. The financial indexes are related to the capacity of the business to generate value for shareholders, while the technical indexes ar...

Acknowledgements The Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada (SSHRC) and the Brazilian National Counsel of Technological and Scientific Development (CNPq) supplied funding for this research. We would also like to acknowledge those that agreed to participate in our field studies.

This paper presents a new theoretical explanation of how the management of control systems’ innovation can be used to improve the economic performance of firms in certain service sectors. In particular it focuses on service sectors where control systems can be used to co-ordinate the flow of goods, traffic, materials, funds, or information through...

This paper explores the role of control systems in the evolution of critical infrastructure. It explains how control systems co-ordinate the flow of goods, traffic, materials, funds, or information through complex supply, production or distribution systems. The paper examines how they increase productivity by improving the utilisation of installed...