Track: Supply Chain Management (SCM)

Abstract

This paper reports on recent work that focus on investigating the decolonization need in supply chain management. The definition of the term decolonization will be explored and will be followed by the characterization of current colonization practices and dynamics. More precisely the current value chain perspective will be analyzed to compare and contrast with the corporate valuation versus the people valuation in some supply chain industries. The research will rely on literature review as well as secondary data of published case studies. The results of this work will help pave the road for more work in this under-served research track in supply chain management especially regarding the underpinning dynamics of modern colonial practices in global south supply chains. In addition, the analysis will shed some light on the challenges facing practitioners and policy makers to better plan for and correct important issues of power, finance and labor in today’s supply chains. Finally, it is hopeful that this work will reveal some ethical problems in the field of supply chain management that will open the door for further research and different scholastic and practical discussions.