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Individual sustainability competences in Supply Chain Management

2017

Sustainability has become imperative for companies within global business settings. Within the context of supply chain management, the business case to integrate environmental and social aspects of sustainable development and foster sustainable supply chains has been developed extensively. In higher education settings, key competences for sustainable development have been defined, with a specific focus towards systems thinking, future thinking, normative perspectives, strategic competences and action approaches. Both discourses have evolved in separate settings (educational versus business context), resulting in a gap between educational interpretations on sustainability competences and business developments on (green) supply chain management. In this paper we explore the position of individual sustainability competences in the context of supply chain management. This contribution aims to clarify the relevance of such competences as systems thinking and future thinking in the contex...