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...