TCU Neeley Research Highlights - Professor of Operations Management, Tyson Browning, alongside other experts share research insights with industry and academic leaders.
May 31, 2023
TCU Neeley School of Business professor of operations management, Tyson Browning, in collaboration with Timofey Shalpegin, and Ajay Kumar, reveal through their study how economic sanctions and consumer boycotts often unintentionally impact innocent businesses within supply chains, disrupting diversity, equity, and inclusion. This research explores how these measures affect various supply chain members and suggests strategies like mapping and shortening supply chains to alleviate these effects. (Productions and Operations Management, 2023).
Abstract
Economic sanctions and consumer boycotts are common tools to punish organizations for undesirable behavior and attempt to coerce them to change their actions. However, these tools occasionally spill over beyond the intended recipients and affect guiltless supply chain members, jeopardizing the principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion in supply chains. This study identifies four channels through which sanctions and boycotts propagate through supply chains. In particular, supply chain members can be affected by direct relationships with targeted organizations, disruptions in accessing foreign markets, inability to access technology, and logistics failures. Potential solutions include mapping supply chains, proactive cooperation, network analysis, and shortening supply chains. While the work provides a general framework for research and practitioners, it also identifies areas for further studies, such as the role of new technologies and the effect of sanctions and boycotts on supply chain sustainability.
