“…To identify these risks and their impact, this paper refers to multiple case studies and approaches to evaluate/analyse and propose a risk mitigation strategy. The research mainly focuses on sustainable and closed‐loop SC reputational risks as that is the central drive in an organisation to implement sustainable SC (Petersen & Lemke, 2015; Dahlmann & Roehrich, 2019; Dias Galuchi, Rosales, & Batalha, 2019; Frei, Jack, & Krzyzaniak, 2020); risks can have a negative impact on financial status (financial risk) due to lack of product sales and retailer procurement sharing, which indirectly affects the inventory process, leading also to operational risks (Bressanelli, Perona, & Saccani, 2019; Hussain & Malik, 2020; Macdonald, Zobel, Melnyk, & Griffis, 2018).…”