Building Diverse, Equitable, and Inclusive Operations and Supply Chains: Bringing Public Policy Back In


Bodrozic, Zlatko ORCID: 0000-0003-1408-1924 and Gold, Stefan (2025) Building Diverse, Equitable, and Inclusive Operations and Supply Chains: Bringing Public Policy Back In PRODUCTION AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT, 34 (4). pp. 837-845. ISSN 1059-1478, 1937-5956

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Abstract

While we have seen some encouraging examples of firms that try to drive diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practices into their supply chains, progress has been frustratingly slow. We argue that a key impediment today and a potential enabler tomorrow—and thus an important subject of operations and supply chain management (OSCM) research—is the array of public policies that sets the “rules of the game” in OCSM. We differentiate three types of public policy regimes—laissez-faire, regulatory, and transformative—and analyze how each differentially affects DEI practices in OSCM. Our analysis suggests that the laissez-faire type may not offer sufficient incentives to trigger a comprehensive change in DEI practices, while the regulatory and transformative types offer more incentives but, in many instances, do not work as expected. By analyzing the effects of distinct public policy activities for DEI-related practices—for example, through comparative empirical studies or modeling and simulation—OSCM scholars can make important contributions to a more comprehensive implementation of DEI practices.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: diversity, equity, inclusion, operations management, supply chain management, public policy
Divisions: Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences > School of Management
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 12 Mar 2025 11:28
Last Modified: 16 Jun 2026 04:36
DOI: 10.1177/10591478241229077
Open Access URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1059...
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