From a literature review to a conceptual framework for sustainable supply chain management

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From a literature review to a conceptual framework for sustainable supply chain management

Stefan Seuring¹, Martin Müller²•Institutions (2)

University of Kassel¹, University of Oldenburg²

01 Oct 2008-Journal of Cleaner Production (Elsevier)-Vol. 16, Iss: 15, pp 1699-1710

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a literature review on sustainable supply chain management taking 191 papers published from 1994 to 2007 into account, and a conceptual framework to summarize the research in this field comprising three parts.

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About: This article is published in Journal of Cleaner Production.The article was published on 2008-10-01. It has received 4760 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Supply chain sustainability & Supply chain.

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An Organizational Theoretic Review of Green Supply Chain Management Literature

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Joseph Sarkis¹, Qinghua Zhu², Kee-hung Lai³•Institutions (3)

Saint Petersburg State University¹, Dalian University of Technology², Hong Kong Polytechnic University³

01 Mar 2011-International Journal of Production Economics

TL;DR: In this article, the authors categorize and review recent green supply chain management literature under nine broad organizational theories, with a special emphasis on investigation of adoption, diffusion and outcomes of GSCM practices.

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1,691 citations

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...These GSCM literature reviews typically begin at or around 1990 (e.g., Seuring and Müller, 2008b; Srivastava, 2007)....
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...As the field matured, anecdotal case studies evolved into theoretical development investigations, and eventually theory testing empirical studies along with more advanced formal modeling tools for evaluating GSCM (Seuring and Müller, 2008b)....
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...Thus, ample opportunity exists for green supplier development, which has been rarely investigated, within the scope of SNT (Seuring and Müller, 2008a)....
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Blockchain technology and its relationships to sustainable supply chain management

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Sara Saberi¹, Mahtab Kouhizadeh¹, Joseph Sarkis¹, Lejia Shen¹•Institutions (1)

Worcester Polytechnic Institute¹

03 Apr 2019-International Journal of Production Research

TL;DR: This paper critically examines how blockchains, a potentially disruptive technology that is early in its evolution, can overcome many potential barriers and proposes future research propositions and directions that can provide insights into overcoming barriers and adoption of blockchain technology for supply chain management.

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Abstract: Globalisation of supply chains makes their management and control more difficult. Blockchain technology, as a distributed digital ledger technology which ensures transparency, traceability, and sec...

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1,637 citations

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...…social aspects of sustainability has not been well-defined on the literature and is less mature overall in sustainable supply chain research (Hutchins and Sutherland 2008; Seuring and Müller 2008; Fahimnia, Sarkis, and Davarzani 2015) which makes the social performance measurement more challenging....
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Business Models for Sustainable Innovation: State of the Art and Steps Towards a Research Agenda

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Frank Boons¹, Florian Lüdeke-Freund², Florian Lüdeke-Freund³•Institutions (3)

Erasmus University Rotterdam¹, Lüneburg University², University of Hamburg³

14 Jun 2012-Social Science Research Network

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review the current literature on business models in the contexts of technological, organizational, and social sustainability innovations and propose examples of normative 'boundary conditions' that business models should meet in order to support sustainable innovations.

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Abstract: The aim of this paper is to advance research on sustainable innovation by adopting a business model perspective. Through a confrontation of the literature on both topics we find that research on sustainable innovation has tended to neglect the way in which firms need to combine a value proposition, the organization of the upstream and downstream value chain, and a financial model, in order to bring sustainability innovations to the market. Therefore, we review the current literature on business models in the contexts of technological, organizational, and social sustainability innovations. As the current literature does not offer a general conceptual definition of sustainable business models, we propose examples of normative 'boundary conditions' that business models should meet in order to support sustainable innovations. Finally, we sketch the outline of a research agenda by formulating a number of guiding questions.

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1,477 citations

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...This condition requires that a firm actively engages suppliers into sustainable supply chain management (Seuring and Muller 2008)....
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...There is substantial literature on how supply chains are reorganized in the process of making them more sustainable (e.g., Boons and Mendoza, 2010; Seuring and Müller, 2008; Vermeulen and Seuring, 2009)....
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...This condition requires that a firm actively engages suppliers into sustainable supply chain management, which includes, for example, forms of social issue management and materials cycles that avoid/reuse wastes (Seuring and Müller, 2008)....
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...Also, modeling studies give insight into the complex way in which, for instance, regulatory standards and supply chain pressures interact in a supply chain (Saint-Jean, 2008; Seuring and Müller, 2008)....
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...Also, modeling studies give insight into the complex way in which, for instance, regulatory standards and supply chain pressures interact in a supply chain (Saint Jean, 2008; Seuring and Müller, 2008)....
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Business Models for Sustainable Innovation: State-of-the-Art and Steps Towards a Research Agenda

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Frank Boons¹, Florian Lüdeke-Freund²•Institutions (2)

Erasmus University Rotterdam¹, Lüneburg University²

01 Apr 2013-Journal of Cleaner Production

TL;DR: In this article, the authors review the current literature on business models in the contexts of technological, organizational and social innovation and propose examples of normative requirements that business models should meet in order to support sustainable innovations.

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Reverse logistics and closed-loop supply chain: A comprehensive review to explore the future

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Kannan Govindan, Hamed Soleimani¹, Devika Kannan²•Institutions (2)

Islamic Azad University¹, Aalborg University²

01 Feb 2015-European Journal of Operational Research

TL;DR: The aim of this paper is to review recently published papers in reverse logistic and closed-loop supply chain in scientific journals and identify gaps in the literature to clarify and to suggest future research opportunities.

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1,364 citations

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