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Stefan Seuring notes that the German article I noticed on sustainability in
supply management of the Volkswagen AG - Effect on medium-sized companies is
actually just a brief version of an English language article of his. See
below.

FYI
Charles Wankel
ONE-L list director

-----Original Message-----
From: Stefan Seuring [mailto:seuring@uni-kassel.de]
Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2010 1:47 PM
To: Charles Wankel
Cc: Koplin, Julia, Dr. (K-BG)
Subject: Re: ARTICLE OF THE DAY: Sustainability in supply management of the
Volkswagen AG - Effect on medium-sized companies

Dear Charles,

many thanks for pointing to our work.
The paper you refer to is a kind of short version of the attached one, which
we were asked to provide to an issue of a German langugage (non-reviewed in
our case).

Please find the full paper published in the Journal of Cleaner Production
attached.

For our further publications in the field.please feel free taking a look at
our website:
http://www.uni-kassel.de/agrar/ima/?c=4

As a second paper, I attache a literature review on sustainable supply chain
management, which I hope, you would fine useful.

Kind regards and have a nice week,


Stefan




Charles Wankel schrieb:
>
> I post this article citation in the hope that it will be of use and
> interest to ONE-L members and possibly generate some discussion.
>
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Charles Wankel
>
> ONE-L list director
>
> St. John's University, New York
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> */MANAGEMENT EDUCATION FOR GLOBAL SUSTAINABIITY (/*available from
> online booksellers)
>
>
>
> Seuring, Stefan; Koplin, Julia. Sustainability in supply management of
> the Volkswagen AG - Effect on medium-sized companies.
> /Betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung und Praxis/, volume: 62
> issue: 1(Jan-Feb 2010) pages: 71-81 .
>
> Addresses:
> 1. Univ Kassel, Fachgebiet Int Management, D-37213 Witzenhausen,
> Germany 2. Volkswagen AG, Vorstandburo Konzernbeschaffung, D-38436
> Wolfsburg, Germany
>
> E-mail Addresses: seuring@uni-kassel.de
> <mailto:seuring@uni-kassel.de>, julia.koplin@volkswagen.de
> <mailto:julia.koplin@volkswagen.de>
>
>
>
> Abstract: In recent years sustainability management has become a major
> challenge for companies. This is not only a issue of medium- and
> long-term survival, but environmental and social aspects have to be
> integrated into corporate action. This is particularly true as they
> are part of global supply chains, where only a minor part of the
> overall value creation takes part within the enterprises themselves.
>
> Against this background, companies integrate environmental and social
> standards into their supply management thereby fulfilling demands
> towards the three pillars of sustainability. The paper presents by the
> example of the Volkswagen AG, Wolfsburg, Germany, how overarching
> requirements of sustainable development are operationalised. This
> allowed integrating respective guidelines into supply policies and
> processes at Volkswagen. Both the process as well as central outcome
> of the project are outlined within the paper, where also the
> consequences for medium-sized companies are discussed.
>
>
>
> Full text of the full article is available (in German) from the
> databases: ABI/INFORM Global and ProQuest Research Library.
>
>
>
> EXCERPT
>
> Its reference list:
>
> Literaturverz eichnis
>
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> Marburg, 2008, S. 7-22.
>
> Bluhm, K./Geicke, A. (2007): Gesellschaftliches Engagement im
> Mittelstand - altes Phänomen oder neuer Konformismus? In: Berliner
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> Jg. 4/5, S. 27-36.
>
> Buscher, U./Wels, A./Winter, D. H. (2008): Eine bibliografische
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> Berücksichtigung der Risikoguantifizierung. In: Otto, AJ Obermaier, R.
> (Hrsg.): Logistikmanagement - Analyse, Bewertung und Gestaltung
> logistischer Systeme, S. 347-375.
>
> Carroll, A. B. (1991): "The pyramid of corporate social
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>
> Corbett, C. J./Kirsch, D. A. (2001): International diffusion of ISO
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>
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> 2007.
>
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>
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>
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>
> Koplin, J. (2006): Nachhaltigkeit im Beschaffungsmanagement - Ein
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>
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> 13. Jg., Heft 4, S. 49-54.
>
> Large, R. (2009): Strategisches Beschaffungsmanagement - Eine
> praxisorientierte Einführung. Mit Fallstuthen, Wiesbaden, 2009.
>
> Müller, M. (2005 a): Action Research in Supply Chain Management - An
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>
> Müller, M. (2005 b): Informationstransfer im Supply Chain Management -
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>
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>
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>
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>
> Volkswagen AG (Hrsg.) (2007): Nachhaltigkeitsbericht 2007/2008 - Wir
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>
> (http://www.volkswagenag.com/vwag/vwcorp/info_center/de/publications/2
> 007/09/ nachhaltigkeitsbericht. -bin. acq/qual-BinaryStorageltem.
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>
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>
> (http://www.vwgroupsupply.com/b2b/vwb2b_folder/supply2public/downloads
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>
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>

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Prof. Dr. Stefan Seuring
Department of International Management
Faculty of Organic Agricultural Sciences University of Kassel Steinstr. 19
37213 Witzenhausen
Germany
Tel. +49 5542 98 1206
Fax +49 5542 98 1207
seuring@uni-kassel.de
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