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This study aimed to understand how a structure reconfiguration contributes to an inclusive sociotechnical transition. A case study was carried out in Fortaleza city, Brazil, between 2017 and 2019 focused on two integrated sharing mobility initiatives (i.e. bike sharing and e-carsharing). Findings show that the public-private partnership created to implement these initiatives was possible through the integration of various sociotechnical actors, who play multiple roles and develop strategies to institutionalise the sustainable shared mobility program. Findings reveal that such integration, which occurs by collective actions promoted by the state, third sector, community, and market, changed the city's dynamic towards an inclusive sustainability transition. We mapped insights into how the roles and responsibilities of the actors involved accelerate the sustainability transition. This paper contributes to theory and practice by illustrating a transition model using a local perspective that supports the institutionalisation of a sustainable mobility transition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract In the face of natural disasters, companies attempt to maintain the sustainability of their business by implementing an appropriate set of organisational practices. Based on the practice-based view of strategic management, this paper aims to identify intra- and inter-organisational supply chain practices that help focal companies in the cashew nut supply chain in Brazil respond to natural disasters. To this end, three in-depth, qualitative case studies informed by semi-structured interviews and secondary data were conducted in Brazil. The data were analysed using qualitative content analysis supported by NVivo software and based on an analytic framework that links resources and practices to performance in a natural disaster context. The findings indicate that companies embark on different trajectories depending on the resources and practices they deploy in response to natural disasters. While one company demonstrated a negative performance due to competitive inertia and low productivity, two companies maintained and increased their performance results based on inter-organisational collaboration. Findings demonstrate that responding to natural disasters requires companies to reorganise their strategies towards sustainability and to develop new practices such as food safety, organic production and social responsibility. Highlights • Cashew supply chains face sustainability challenges in light of natural disasters. • Organisational assets and practices help achieving supply chain sustainability. • Inter-organisational practices and collaboration are crucial for the response. • Practices are benchmarks that help diffusing sustainability within the sector. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

More than having a focus on performance and rational decisions, supply management studies need to emphasise the effects of managers' social relations to implement sustainability. These social relations can be explained by the micro-level analyses and shape managers' behaviours. Therefore, we explore in this paper whether and how local managers experience sustainability decisions through social capital theory. A qualitative research study involving clothing supply players operating in an emerging economy was developed that relied on semi-structured interviews and secondary data as data sources. Data were inductively analysed using NVivo software and organised into three categories: individuals, interrelationship and structure. The results show that the micro level of sustainability implementation is better explained when cognitive and relational capital are related to experience (e.g. awareness of sustainability scandals) and agency elements. However, structure capital as a component of the micro level triggered unexpected opportunistic behaviours (e.g. misconduct and naturalised child labour). This paper contributes to both theory and practice since it shows how micro-level decisions interfere in sustainability implementation based on (1) actions resulting from existing close relational ties and (2) the influence of the operating context. Unlike previous research, this paper is original by showing that a local supply can generate unexpected consequences, such as opportunistic behaviour camouflaged as cultural norms. • The micro-level analysis explains how to implement sustainability. • Relational ties can lead to unsustainable behaviours. • Operating context plays a key role towards sustainability implementation. • Opportunistic behaviours are camouflaged as cultural norms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Amidst the high number of frameworks associated with supply chain sustainability (SCS), proper consideration to the role and importance of micro and small enterprises (MSEs) has been missing in the literature. To address this research gap, this paper investigates the driving factors that support MSE supply chains to achieve sustainability. We employ institutional and complexity theories to broaden our understanding of the dynamics behind neglected supply chain structures, especially the ones predominantly formed by MSEs. An in-depth nested case study is carried out in a MSE supply chain in an emerging economy, where 33 supply chain players were involved in the data collection. Using a combination of deductive and inductive approaches to analyze the data, we find that to truly implement SCS, research and practice should consider not only the strategic, structural and process levels, but also the contextual level, which is critical dimension to SCS dynamics. Results show that MSE supply chains contribute significantly to regional socio-economic development due to their local roots and regional history. Also, findings demonstrate that MSE supply chains have enhanced resilience to crises (e.g., economic, political and other disruptions) because they are often focused on long-standing economic activities within the regional ecosystems. This paper contributes to theory by arguing that SCS is a much more complex phenomenon in practice than the current theory implies. Therefore, incorporating the diversity from reality and the peculiarities of MSE supply chains into the SCS debate helps the literature to get closer to the SCS practice. • MSE supply chain sustainability requires a multi-level approach, including strategic, structural, process and contextual considerations. • MSE supply chains offer significant contributions to local and regional development. • MSE supply chains have enhanced resilience to crises and disruptions due to their long-standing operation within the regional ecosystems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper argues in favor of a paradigm shift in supply chain sustainability (SCS) studies, from a sustainability-performance approach to a sustainability-practice approach. It focuses on how sustainability occurs rather than on what it takes to ensure sustainable operations through a process-oriented understanding of sustainability as a practice. The sustainability-practice approach also supports a shift from the triple bottom line perspective to a focus on sustainable development goals (SDGs). The present research enables the idea that sustainability emerges from a bundle of practices to achieve and to keep some goal as well as contributes to understanding how a medium organization and its supply chain practice sustainability, toward the SDG 12. A four-years qualitative case study was conducted in a Brazilian family-owned company that manufactures rubber products for the health and educational fields, and content analysis was used to reveal the doings and sayings of sustainability as a practice. Findings indicate that sustainability occurs, both internally and along the supply chain, through five different practices: cooperating, understanding, deeming, improving, and changing the logic. Thus the paper provides a representation of practicing sustainability to show how practices take place as a new theoretical lens for SCS studies and to have real-world contributions. • The sustainability-practice approach explains how supply chain sustainability emerges. • Practicing sustainability occurs through a bundle of practices. • Supply chain sustainability face the responsible production and consumption goal. • Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) rely on sustainability-practice approach. • A practice-based approach on sustainability can enable the pursue of SDGs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

• We model the e-carsharing influence on urban transportation systems. • We test e-carsharing long-term scenarios and their effects. • E-carsharing creates positive externalities for electric vehicles (EV). • E-carsharing creates negative externalities on the conventional automotive chain. • E-carsharing contribute to reduce CO2 emissions. Moving toward sustainable mobility, the sharing economy business model emerges as a prominent practice that can contribute to the transition to sustainability. Using a system dynamics modeling approach, this paper investigates the impacts of an e-carsharing scheme in carbon emissions and in electric vehicle adoption. We study the VAMO scheme located in Fortaleza, Brazil, as the first e-carsharing scheme in the country. We study two policies combined: a VAMO planned growth policy and a retirement policy for conventional vehicles. Our results show that the VAMO incentive policy is an important factor to reduce emissions and to increase awareness of electric vehicles, highlighting the role of the government as an institutional entrepreneur, stimulating and sustaining the VAMO scheme. The retirement policy in combination with the VAMO incentive policy obtained the best results in our simulations, reducing 29% of CO 2 emissions and increasing 36% electric vehicle adoption, when compared to the business-as-usual scenario. The main conclusions are that such e-carsharing schemes offer direct and indirect benefits to urban mobility (specially to electric vehicle adoption) and that they depend on how the government supports them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Social innovations for sustainable consumption have attracted policymakers' attention internationally as a possible means to reach sustainability and climate change goals. So far, most of the research on the emergence and potential of social innovations has been carried out in the Global North. Consequentially, some theoretical approaches and concepts have not been reviewed critically for their applicability in other contexts. This paper explores similarities and differences in the emergence and development process of social innovations for sustainable consumption in different cultural and geographical contexts to fill this gap. The objective is to enrich current concepts with more context-sensitive categories. On this account, the paper undertakes an explorative qualitative cross-country analysis of innovations for sustainable consumption in diverse sectors, using a sample of 87 cases collected by desk research in Brazil, Germany, and Iran. The analysis is based on a procedural perspective on innovation and refers to the three phases problematization, experimentation, and restabilization. The research shows that, in the problematization phase, the initiatives differ in taking up "globalized" challenges affecting most countries worldwide versus "locally emerged" ones, more connected to socio-economic, cultural, or political specifics. Experimentation with possible solutions differentiates between "imported" versus "locally" invented or appropriated context-specific approaches. Forms and degrees of restabilization depend mainly on framings for start-ups or non-governmental organizations and the local government's openness for innovative approaches. Based on the manifestation of these characteristics, the analyses result in four different qualitative types. The identified categories complement existing typologies, which so far neglect the geopolitical scope of the addressed problems and the tested solutions. Further empirical analyses in different countries will show whether the identified categories and types are helpful for a better understanding of the emergence and development of social innovations for sustainable consumption in different socio-economic, geopolitical, and cultural contexts. • The analytical framework combines the phenomena of sustainable consumption with the three phases of the innovation process. • Social innovations for sustainable consumption differ in their reaction to global or local challenges. • The solutions to global and local challenges can be imported, locally invented, or appropriated context-specific approaches. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]