I study how supply chains can work within the limits of people and planet.

Supply chain management research predominantly examines sustainability from the perspective of buying firms, analyzing how procurement strategies, supplier governance, and compliance mechanisms can reduce negative environmental and social outcomes associated with their supply chains. While this approach has advanced our understanding of firm‐level practices, it suffers from a fundamental unit‐of‐analysis problem: Socio‐ecological footprints emerge from the interaction of multiple supply chains and other actors within specific localities, yet research often treats the supply chains of individual buying firms as independent units. Consequently, interventions that appear successful for individual firms may leave harm in place or merely displace it rather than resolve underlying causes. We introduce the footprint perspective as a complementary approach to sustainable supply chain management research. While the buying firm perspective usually traces supply chains from the buying firm to its suppliers, the footprint perspective begins its investigation in the localities where supply chain activities are entangled with socio‐ecological systems. This perspective treats localities as the unit of analysis, examining how interdependencies among supply chains, locality actors, and ecosystems jointly produce socio‐ecological footprints. We compare the assumptions of these two perspectives and outline an empirical playbook for putting this conceptual shift into practice.

The global climate crisis is pushing firms toward sustainable supply chain practices, with digital technology offering a vital pathway to track greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This research investigates the factors influencing the adoption of digital traceability systems for managing these emissions, focusing on implementation scope and supply chain complexity (SCC). Drawing on Institutional Theory and Transaction Cost Economics, we conducted a choice‐based conjoint experiment with managers in manufacturing sectors to capture the trade‐offs in their decision‐making process. Our results show that firms are more likely to consider technology solutions when (a) those solutions cover Scope 1, 2, and 3 GHG emissions, and (b) there is greater SCC due to ‘detail‐numerousness’ (number of elements in a system) and ‘detail‐variety’ (heterogeneity of these elements). However, dynamic complexity (changing nature of elements) has an ambiguous impact on technology adoption. “Detail‐numerousness” (e.g., number of products produced) is the most critical attribute for internal operations, while “detail‐variety” (e.g., geographical dispersion and supplier heterogeneity) has the greatest impact on upstream supply chains. This research extends the supply chain technology adoption literature by providing a nuanced empirical understanding of how distinct dimensions of SCC at both internal and upstream levels shape the adoption of digital traceability.

This study bridges agroecology and regenerative supply chain management by translating agroecology's practice-based evidence into supply chain design terms for agri-food systems. Drawing on an abductive systematic literature review of 72 peer-reviewed articles, we synthesize four agroecology-informed supply chain practice sets: agroecological production, knowledge transfer and co-creation, embedded and solidarity-based market relationships, and organizing forms for value chain coordination. These practices were conceptualized into four agroecological supply chain configurations—bridged, scaffolded, civic, and territorial—that differ in who coordinates exchange, how demand is structured, and where capabilities and governance reside. We further map the four practice sets to core regenerative supply chain management principles and highlight distributive justice as a cross-cutting condition for durable regenerative outcomes. The study elaborates a developmental logic, which indicates that producer-led, territorially embedded chains supported by local innovation networks and deep producer-consumer integration are positively associated with systemic regeneration.

Five afternoons of sessions for authors developing papers, co-organised with Andreas Wieland and Hannah Stolze. My sessions were on writing a good paragraph and a good introduction, and an open "ask the editors" closing.

Virtual keynote, in a joint session with Hakan Karaosman and ECOALF, drawing on our research on post-growth supply ecosystems in craft-dependent fashion.