Interactions Along the Supply Chain for Building Dynamic Capabilities for Sustainable Supply Chain Management

Abstract

Today’s dynamic business environments require that company expand their focus beyond the gates of their premises. The growing number and relevance of social and environmental issues, in particular, attracts companies’ efforts along the entire supply chain. Yet, doing so requires capabilities companies need to develop in order to cope with a dynamic set of challenges with various business effects. Using a key constituent in supply chains – interactions – as a starting point, this conceptual contribution conducts an initial investigation of how interactions can help develop dynamic capabilities for an effective sustainable supply chain management. The analysis arrives at the conclusion that interactions can be used in a variety of situations to promote the development of dynamic capabilities. These results identify a number of interaction properties that can play an important role in developing a certain dynamic capability. The findings present a first approach of these issues. As such, it serves to shed light on the research direction that could potentially reveal a promising aspect of interactions, which has been neglected to date.