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Sustainability management beyond corporate boundaries: from stakeholders to performance

01 Oct 2013-Journal of Cleaner Production (Elsevier)-Vol. 56, pp 1-6
TL;DR: The Journal of Cleaner Production (JCP) special volume as mentioned in this paper provides an overview of sustainable supply chain management, both on the theoretical and the practical side, with a focus on sustainability.
About: This article is published in Journal of Cleaner Production.The article was published on 2013-10-01. It has received 279 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Supply chain & Supply chain management.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors define the concept of circular economy from the perspective of WCED sustainable development and sustainability science, and conduct a critical analysis of the concept from a perspective of environmental sustainability, identifying six challenges, for example those of thermodynamics and system boundaries, that need to be resolved for CE to contribute to global net sustainability.

1,841 citations


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  • ...…difficult questions of inter-organizational sustainability management that have not been discussed in the current CE initiatives include (see e.g. Seuring and Gold, 2013; Seuring, 2004; Korhonen et al., 2004):Who is the leader in the network, who bears the biggest responsibility, who gains the…...

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TL;DR: Results indicate that the hybrid approach achieves better solutions compared to others, and that crowding distance method for LSP outperforms the former Grids method.

492 citations


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  • ...An increasing number of papers on sustainability and sustainable SCM were published in different journals recently (see Bai and Sarkis, 2010; Basurko and Mesbahi, 2012; Baumgartner, 2011; Bergenwall et al., 2012; Gimenez et al., 2012; Gunasekaran and Spalanzani, 2011; Linton et al., 2007; Pagell et al., 2008; Seuring and Gold, 2013; Smith and Ball, 2012; Tseng et al., 2013)....

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify key categories of sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) and related practices that are required to fulfill the demands of sustainability and, therefore, contribute to sustainability performance.
Abstract: Purpose – The aim of this paper is to identify key categories of Sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) and related practices that are required to fulfill the demands of sustainability and, therefore, contributing to sustainability performance. As part of this, the authors will identify different approaches in practice implementation in SSCM and supply chain management (SCM). SSCM has become a topic of great interest and is linked to the assumption that a more sustainable performance for businesses would be achieved on its implementation. Such performance has to be achieved with respect to all three dimensions of sustainability. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is conceptual in nature. The authors draw from literature on SSCM and examine frameworks and critical accounts on the topic. This allows identifying key aspects of SSCM and pointing out differences and overlaps with SCM. Findings – The authors identify five key categories which are of high importance for the sustainable management of sup...

413 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify and analyze the metrics that have been published in the literature on green supply chain management (GSCM) and sustainable supply chain Management (SSCM).

395 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a structured literature review of sustainability in purchasing and supply management, moving beyond the traditional environmental and social sustainability, and synthesize measures used to research sustainability across organizational boundaries.
Abstract: This paper provides a structured literature review of sustainability in purchasing and supply management, moving beyond the traditional environmental and social sustainability. The paper reviews the concept of sustainability at three levels of inter-organizational analysis - i.e. dyad, supply chain and network. The paper distils the nature and scope of existing research and synthesizes measures used to research sustainability across organizational boundaries. This literature review systematically analyzes existing literature. In particular, the review focuses on definitions and measures of sustainable purchasing and supply management to obtain an accurate view of current research. This paper uncovers two distinct trends in the type of research carried out. First, internal or dyadic issues are in focus and second, a tendency to deal with environmental, as opposed to social, sustainability. Despite the need to look beyond the dyad given the risks associated with the extended network, few studies do so in any of the sustainability dimensions. This review is limited by the method employed focusing on definitions and measures. Although the review considers supply chain and network research, it does so purely from a purchasing perspective, thus excluding issues such as logistics and transport. The paper identifies areas open to future research and provides practical insights into how sustainable purchasing and supply are measured. It also synthesizes existing measures of sustainability at different levels and organizes these into a taxonomy. The paper examines studies across multiple levels of analysis and integrates multiple fields of knowledge to show how research on sustainability in purchasing and supply is structured.

365 citations

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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.

4,760 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify and consolidate various supply chain initiatives and factors to develop key SCM constructs conducive to advancing the field and synthesize the large, fragmented body of work dispersed across many disciplines.

2,290 citations

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TL;DR: The process of theory construction in organizational studies is portrayed as imagination disciplined by evolutionary processes analogous to artificial selection as mentioned in this paper, and the quality of theory produced is predicted to vary as a function of the accuracy and detail present in the problem statement that triggers theory building, the number of and independence among the conjectures that attempt to solve the problem, and the number and diversity of selection criteria used to test the conjecture.
Abstract: The process of theory construction in organizational studies is portrayed as imagination disciplined by evolutionary processes analogous to artificial selection. The quality of theory produced is predicted to vary as a function of the accuracy and detail present in the problem statement that triggers theory building, the number of and independence among the conjectures that attempt to solve the problem, and the number and diversity of selection criteria used to test the conjectures. It is argued that interest is a substitute for validation during theory construction, middle range theories are a necessity if the process is to be kept manageable, and representations such as metaphors are inevitable, given the complexity of the subject matter.

1,821 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, a systematic review of the sustainable supply chain management literature in the principal Logistics and Supply Chain Management journals, across a 20-year time frame, is presented.
Abstract: Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to conduct a systematic review of the sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) literature in the principal logistics and supply chain management journals, across a 20‐year time frame.Design/methodology/approach – The authors use a systematic literature review methodology. This methodology allows for the minimization of researcher bias and the maximization of reliability and replicability. The study's empirical validity is further enhanced by demonstrating high levels of inter‐coder reliability across families of codes.Findings – The field of SSCM has evolved from a perspective and investigation of standalone research in social and environmental areas; through a corporate social responsibility perspective; to the beginnings of the convergence of perspectives of sustainability as the triple bottom line and the emergence of SSCM as a theoretical framework. While the SSCM research has become more theoretically rich and methodologically rigorous, there are numerous oppo...

1,311 citations