Research Paper Addresses Walmart Sustainability
David Hyatt
An article co-authored by David Hyatt, research associate professor of supply chain management at the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the U of A, addresses how Walmart came to be one of the most sustainability-minded companies in the world.
The article entitled "Walmart tried to make sustainability affordable. Here's what happened" was published at theconversation.com. "The Conversation is a platform for sharing academic research but written for popular audiences," Hyatt said.
Hyatt and his co-author - Andrew Spicer, an associate professor of international business at the University of South Carolina - spent five years studying Walmart's sustainability program, which they call "an ambitious effort to figure out how to get its budget-conscious customers to buy more sustainable products."
They trace the origins and history of the effort back to Lee Scott, chief executive officer of Walmart from 2000 to 2009, and examine what prompted the move. The article says, "Our findings highlight both the promises and perils of what one Walmart executive optimistically termed the 'democratization of sustainability.'"
The article also extensively examines the concept of sustainability, at one point asking, "What's 'sustainable' anyway?"
Read the entire article online at https://theconversation.com/walmart-tried-to-make-sustainability-affordable-heres-what-happened-76771.
The Conversation article was based on work published in the California Management Review.
About the Sam M. Walton College of Business: The Sam M. Walton College of Business is a nationally and internationally recognized leader in business education and research. Since its founding at the University of Arkansas in 1926, the Walton College has grown to become the state's premier college of business – as well as a nationally competitive business school. The Walton College has been ranked as a top 30 public business college by U.S. News & World Report for more than a dozen years in a row.
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Contacts
David Graham Hyatt, coord. academic sustainability
Supply Chain Management
479-575-6085,
dhyatt@uark.edu
David Speer, senior director of communications
Sam M. Walton College of Business
479-575-2539,
dlspeer@uark.edu
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