A buying firm might in future incur costs associated with a supplier’s CO2 emissions, safety violations or other social or environmental impacts. Learning about a supplier’s impacts requires costly effort, but is necessary (and sometimes sufficient) to reduce those impacts. The capital...

This paper contributes to a recent thrust in the OM literature on how various sorts of transparency influence social and environmental responsibility in a supply chain. In practice, companies are under pressure to publish their supplier lists and suppliers' violations, and some are beginning to...

An emerging financial innovation enabled by the Blockchain technology in agricultural supply chains is the capability to “tip the farmers.” This innovation empowers socially- conscious customers to identify the individual farmers of their sustainably-sourced products and reward these farmers...

This special issue implores us to address sustainability from the lens of emerging economies and the role that innovation can play in this context. We posit that, for sustainable operations research to be relevant in the context of emerging economies, it needs to incorporate social concerns and...

The mismatch between newsvendor theory and experimental observations has garnered significant attention in the literature; several theories have been developed to capture the observed behavior. Yet, there has been limited research on the implications of observed behavior, leaving both a...