- Title
- Sustainable operations management and social responsibility in an Australian disaster recovery operation
- Creator
- Oloruntoba, Richard
- Relation
- 9th International Symposium on Multinational Business Management Entrepreneurship, Organizational Change and Employment Management. Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Multinational Business Management: Entrepreneurship, Organizational Change and Employment Management (Nanjing, China 20-21 June, 2017) p. 67-75
- Publisher
- Nanjing University Press
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2017
- Description
- Sustainable and socially responsible approaches to Operations Management (OM) has gained ground within multinational business management and the not for profit public sector. Similarly, research on sustainable and socially responsible approaches to disaster management is generating interest and gradually diffusing into mainstream research (Anholt, 2010; Oloruntoba, 2015). This paper builds on this foundation by exploring sustainable and socially responsible criteria in an Australian disaster response operations case study. The article traces the historical evolution of the concept of sustainability and social responsibility in OM literature; and illustrates with a case study of disaster management activities of the Queensland and Australian governments in the response to the 2006 Cyclone disaster in Queensland. The contribution of this article is the discussion of aspects of sustainable and socially responsible activities undertaken during "Operation Recovery" - the label given to a series of longer term cyclone recovery operations undertaken in the aftermath of the cyclone Larry disaster of 20th March 2006 in north Queensland, Australia. The paper also provides a broad model for analysis and implementation of sustainable and socially responsible operations approaches. Additionally, the paper outlines key variables of such approaches within a natural disaster recovery context; and highlights plausible relationships between the operations approaches adopted and the perceived positive outcome of the event. Lastly, the article highlights potential areas of improvement in such sustainable and socially responsible practices and approaches.
- Subject
- multinational businesses; not for profit; disaster recovery; sustainability; social responsibility
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1398848
- Identifier
- uon:34492
- Language
- eng
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