Examining the role of virtue ethics and big data in enhancing viable, sustainable, and digital supply chain performance

Bag, Surajit; Rahman, Muhammad Sabbir; Srivastava, Gautam; Shore, Adam; Ram, Pratibha

doi:10.1016/j.techfore.2022.122154

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“…Digitalization provides greater visibility and traceability of goods, enabling companies to monitor their progress and make informed decisions. The third is “data-driven decision-making” (Bag et al , 2023). Digitalization provides access to real-time data, which can be used to make data-driven decisions and improve supply chain performance.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…4.1 Theme 1 (circular and sustainable supply chain) Circular and sustainable supply chain theme is a highly weighted theme in both published literature and social media, implying it is crucial for both scholars and industry professionals (Genovese et al, 2017;Bag et al, 2020;Bag et al, 2021b;Zhang et al, 2022;Bai et al, 2022;Bag et al, 2023). In a business-to-business (B2B) context, a circular and sustainable supply chain refers to the creation of a closed-loop system where businesses work together to produce products or services with minimal environmental impact (Bag et al, 2021a).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Recent trends in supply chain management of business-to-business firms: a review and future research directions

Shrivastava

2023

JBIM

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Purpose This study aims to identify the trending topics, emerging themes and future research directions in supply chain management (SCM) through multiple source of data. The insights would be of use to academics, practitioners and policymakers to leverage latest developments in addressing current and future challenges. Design/methodology/approach This study uses a multiple source of data such as published literature and social media data including supply chain blogs and forums contents on business-to-business (B2B) firms to identify trending topics, emerging themes and future research directions in SCM. Topic modeling, a machine learning technique, is used to derive the topics and themes. Examining supply chain blogs and forums offer a valuable perspective on current issues and challenges faced by B2B firms. By analyzing the content of these online discussions, the study identifies emerging themes and topics of interest to practitioners and researchers. Findings The study synthesizes 1,648 published articles and more than 1.3 lakh tweets, discussions and expert views from social media, including various blogs and supply chain forums, and identifies six themes, of which three are trending, and the other three are emerging themes in the supply chain. Rather than aggregate implications, the study integrates findings from two databases and proposes a framework encompassing the drivers, processes and impacts on each theme and derives promising avenues for future research. Originality/value Prior literature has majorly used published research articles and reports as a primary source of information to identify the trending theme and emerging topics. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first study of its kind to examine the potential value of information from social media, such as blogs, websites, forums and published literature to discover new supply chain trends and themes related to B2B firms and derive encouraging possibilities for future research.

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Section: Drivers Process and Impacts For Each Themementioning

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Recent trends in supply chain management of business-to-business firms: a review and future research directions

Shrivastava

2023

JBIM

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“…On the other hand, the concept of business ethics “acquires special significance with regard to new processes taking place in the field of open innovation and digitalization” (Roša and Lobanova, 2022, p. 9). Bag et al (2023) argue that digital technology (e.g. big data, block chain) is analysed and treated by humans and the lack of business ethics may lead to disastrous consequences (erroneous decision-making, the use of technology for illegal aims).…”

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Digitalization and money laundering: the moderating effects of ethical behaviour of firms and corruption

Khelil

Ammari

Bouraoui

et al. 2023

JMLC

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Purpose This paper aims to investigate the relationship between digitalization and money laundering and tests whether ethical behaviour of firms and corruption moderate this association. Design/methodology/approach The sample includes 114 countries during 2016. Basel Anti-Money Laundering Report for 2016 is used to collect data concerning money laundering. Digitalization proxies are collected from digital adoption index from the World Bank for 2016. Finally, the remaining variables are gathered from the Global Competitiveness Report for the same year. Findings Results show negative and significant associations between the overall digitalization score and sub-scores dealing with digitalization adoption by businesses, people and government and money laundering. When testing for the moderating effect of corruption, the negative and significant association remains stable for both low and high corrupt environments for the overall digitalization score and sub-scores dealing digitalization adoption by businesses and people and money laundering. Similarly, ethical behaviour of firms does not moderate the association between digitalization (overall index and digitalization by business and people) and money laundering, as the relationship remains negative and significant for low and high ethical behaviour sub-samples. By contrast, the association becomes insignificant between digitalization adoption by government and money laundering for countries characterized by high corruption and low ethical behaviour of firms, while it is negative and significant for countries characterized by low corruption and high ethical behaviour firms. Originality/value These findings confirm that digitalization effort represents a crucial arm to combat money laundering. It also emphasizes the interrelation that may exist between digitalization effort in governmental institutions and institutional environment, as low levels of money laundering cannot be reached if the digitalization effort undertaken by governments is not supported by low corruption and ethical business environment.

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“…BT, a decentralized and distributed database that is used to keep track of an evergrowing collection of records, enables digital supply chains (DSCs) to improve their sustainability, resilience and agility (Sanka et al, 2021). Furthermore, BT makes use of a data access infrastructure that refreshes itself in real time and can execute financial transactions using computer algorithms without third-party validation (Bag et al, 2023;€ Ozt€ urk and Yildizbas ¸i, 2020). Through the safe transmission of data in a distributed way, BT has the potential to enhance operations in various functions of an organization, including its SC (Lim et al, 2021).…”

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“…, 2021). Furthermore, BT makes use of a data access infrastructure that refreshes itself in real time and can execute financial transactions using computer algorithms without third-party validation (Bag et al. , 2023; Öztürk and Yildizbaşi, 2020).…”

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Blockchain technology for viable circular digital supplychains: an integrated approach for evaluating the implementation barriers

Benabdellah

Zekhnini

Cherrafi

et al. 2023

BIJ

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PurposeBlockchain technology (BT) is creating a new standard for all business operations. It can assist businesses in handling the complexity of circular digital supply chain (DCM) management. Despite this optimistic view, several barriers hinder its implementation. In this regard, this study contributes to Industry 4.0, circular economy (CE), the viability with a critical emphasis on its potential ramifications and influence on the future agenda while using BT technology in the supply chain (SC). In addition, the research reduces the knowledge gap by investigating and ranking the key barriers to the deployment of BT in viable circular digital supply chains (VCDSCs) and studies their interdependencies and causal relationships. The purpose of this paper is to address these issues.Design/methodology/approachThe barriers to BT adoption in the VCDSC are identified through a thorough literature review and considering viability performance. These barriers are then classified using the analytical hierarchy process (AHP) method. Decision-making trial and evaluation laboratory (DEMATEL) is then employed to examine the cause/effect, correlation, and connection among the 14 barriers selected barriers from the AHP classification to estimate each barrier's overall degree of impact over the others.FindingsThis paper identifies and analyzes the BT adoption barriers in the VCDSC as well as examines how the key barriers interact. As a result, according to the AHP/DEMATEL method, the most prominent influencing barriers to the BT implementation in the VCDSC are “Data transparency,” “Market competition,” “Missing infrastructure,” “Lack of standardization,” “Complex protocol,” “Lack of industry involvement,” “Financial constraints,” “Missing infrastructure,” “Data transparency” and “Interoperability.” The outcomes offer a potential path for identifying important barriers as well as insight into the implementation of BT in the SC while integrating different capabilities such as viability, sustainability and CE principles.Practical implicationsManagers and researchers will benefit from this research by gaining an understanding of the challenges that must be prioritized and examined for BT to be implemented successfully in the VCDSC.Originality/valueThe use and implementation of blockchain-enabled VCDSC continue to face challenges despite an increase in relevant practice and research. Despite the benefits of BT, managers struggle to apply such technology in the context of their company. In this respect, this paper uses an integrated AHP–DEMATEL for categorizing the BT barriers as well as the interrelationship between them. In this respect, this paper presents the BT barriers studied are those related to the use of BT in the SC while integrating different paradigms such as viability, digitalization and CE. While many studies look at the barriers to BT adoption; none of them has ever included the viable capability, which means the ability to “react agilely to positive changes, be resilient to absorb negative events and re-cover after disruptions and survive at long-term periods.” The study concludes with insightful comments based on the findings and suggestions for eradicating those obstacles and their associated effects.

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Examining the role of virtue ethics and big data in enhancing viable, sustainable, and digital supply chain performance

Cited by 29 publications

References 85 publications

Recent trends in supply chain management of business-to-business firms: a review and future research directions

Recent trends in supply chain management of business-to-business firms: a review and future research directions

Digitalization and money laundering: the moderating effects of ethical behaviour of firms and corruption

Blockchain technology for viable circular digital supplychains: an integrated approach for evaluating the implementation barriers

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