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Sustainable operations management: a typological approach
Lawrence M. Corbett
capital of Seychelles University of Wellington (New Zealand)
lawrence.corbett@vuw.ac.nz
Received September 2008
Accepted April 2009
Abstract: This paper discusses the nature of sustainability and sustainable development as
they relate to operations management. It proposes a typology for sustainable operations
management that is based on the life cycle stages of a product and the three dimensions of
embodied kind responsibility. The aim is to show how this typology development could
provide a useful approach to integrating the diverse strands of sustainability in operations,
utilize industrial ecology and carbon neutrality as examples. It does this by providing a
focused subset of environmental concerns for an industrial ecology approach, and approximately
research propositions for the issue of carbon neutrality.




Keywords: operations management, sustainability, environment, typology
1 macrocosm
Sustainability and sustainable development are terms that have endure prominent
in everyday life over young years, particularly associated with the debates around
global warming and corporate social responsibility. These themes have gained
increased profile in such new-fangled films as An Inconvenient Truth (Bender & David,
2006) and The Corporation (Achbar & Simpson, 2003). This paper aims to collide with an
initial (and modest) attempt to integrate these themes as they relate to operations
management, and to generate discussion for its future development. The typology
also aims to help managers meet an integrated approach to sustainable
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