From Power to Sustainability? (de Lima et al. 2025) | FT50 JOOM

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🎙️ Welcome to another episode of Revise and Resubmit! 🎙️
Where the ink is dry, but the ideas are just getting started. 🧠📚

Today, we’re not just following the supply chain…
We’re chasing the ripple of power—through fields, farms, factories, and futures. 🌾🌍

📄 The article we’re unpacking?
“From Power to Sustainability? Unpacking the Role of Justice in Agricultural Commodity Supply Networks”
Published in the Journal of Operations Management—a top-tier, FT50 powerhouse of a journal where only the most rigorous research gets a seat at the table. 🍽️📈

👨‍🔬👩‍🔬 Brought to us by a brilliant team: Felipe Alexandre Lima, Evelyne Vanpoucke, Stefan Gold & Stefan Seuring.

These researchers went deep—like, Mato Grosso, Brazil deep—interviewing, observing, and analyzing the tangled web of power in agricultural supply networks.

And what they uncovered?
Power isn’t just a corporate lever. It’s a force that shapes justice, equity, and sustainability.
⚖️ Too much power in the wrong hands leads to manipulation, exploitation, and environmental fallout.
💡 But balanced power—shared, intentional, and fair—can create a cascade of good: fair wages, protected ecosystems, empowered communities.

They don’t just diagnose the problem—they give us six propositions and a sharp theoretical model to turn power from a wrecking ball into a building block. 🧱🌱

So here’s the question we’re wrestling with today:
In a world hungry for sustainability, how do we shift power without losing control?

🙏 Special thanks to the authors—Felipe Lima, Evelyne Vanpoucke, Stefan Gold, and Stefan Seuring—and to Wiley Periodicals LLC, publishing on behalf of the Association for Supply Chain Management, for giving this research the spotlight it deserves.

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Reference

de Lima, F.A., Vanpoucke, E., Gold, S. and Seuring, S. (2025), From Power to Sustainability? Unpacking the Role of Justice in Agricultural Commodity Supply Networks. J Oper Manag. https://doi.org/10.1002/joom.1372

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