题   目：Supply Chains and Business in the Anthropocene: Shifting from Ecological Harm to Systemic Regeneration

嘉　宾：Joseph Sarkis 教授 伍斯特理工学院

主持人：曾智宇 助理教授 上海交通大学安泰经济与管理学院

时　间：2026年10月20日（周二）14:00-15:30

地　点：上海交通大学安泰经济与管理学院包兆龙图书馆A303

内容简介：

For decades, supply chain management and business, in general, has focused primarily on cost reduction, operational speed, and firm-level efficiency. Holistically, however, these optimized industrial networks act as primary drivers of environmental stress, pushing ecosystems toward critical thresholds. This presentation synthesizes my research across supply chain design, digitalization, and environmental strategy to examine how operations can shift away from standard mitigation approaches, such as traditional "Net-Zero" models, toward active ecological restoration. Using a Drivers, Pressures, State, Impact, Responses (DPSIR) framework, the session outlines how business and supply chain drivers generate specific environmental pressures, and how the resulting ecological changes loop back to create operational and financial risks for industry. Finally, the talk examines the responses of how modern business tools—including analytics, multi-criteria modeling, and digitalization—can provide tools and capabilities to help achieve a regenerative image. Rather than using these tools solely to optimize internal corporate margins, they can serve to support nature-positive operational strategies. The presentation concludes by providing potential future research paths that can help achieve a desirable regenerative supply chain future.

演讲人简介：

Joseph Sarkis is Professor of Management in the Business School at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). He received his Ph.D. from the University at Buffalo. His research and teaching span environmental sustainability, technology, operations, and supply chain management, Professor Sarkis has authored or co-authored over 600 publications across a wide range of outlets. His scholarship has addressed sustainable and circular supply chains, environmental management, technology and sustainability, supply chain analytics, and the emerging challenges of biodiversity and regenerative business. He has served as Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Engineering Management Review and has held editorial positions with numerous leading journals in operations, supply chain, transportation, sustainability, and management.  Professor Sarkis has been recognized as a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics (Web of Science) for more than a decade. He is an International Program Coordinator for the Greening of Industry Network (GIN) and co-editor of the GIN book series published by Springer Nature. He also serves as Co-Chair of the Future Earth Circular Economy Working Group.  Professor Sarkis has held visiting scholar and distinguished visiting positions internationally, including the TEC-LOGd Chaire d’Excellence at Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France, a Sea-Sky Scholar position at Dalian University of Technology, and a Rachel Carson Visiting Scholar position at Chatham University.

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