Sustainable supply chain management in emerging economies: Trade-offs between environmental and cost performance

Esfahbodi, Ali; Zhang, Yufeng; Watson, Glyn

doi:10.1016/j.ijpe.2016.02.013

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“…The majority of the research amplifies the necessity to make trade-offs in supply chain management (Esfahbodi, Zhang & Watson, 2016;Morrison-Saunders & Pope, 2013;Beckmann, Hielscher & Pies, 2014;Seuring, 2013;Studies, 2012). However, only a few researches analyse how the combination of supply chain capabilities can influence resilience.…”

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Managing Capabilities for Supply Chain Resilience Through it Integration

Gružauskas

Vilkas

2017

Economics and Business

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Abstract. The trend for e-commerce, estimated population size to 11 billion by 2050, and an increase in urbanization level to 70 % is requiring to re-think the current supply chain. These trends changed the distribution process: delivery distances are decreasing, the product variety is increasing, and more products are being sold in smaller quantities. Therefore, the concept of supply chain resilience has gained more recognition in recent years. The scientific literature analysis conducted by the authors indicate several capabilities that influence supply chain resilience. Collaboration, flexibility, redundancy and integration are the most influential capabilities to supply chain resilience. However, the authors identify that the combination of these capabilities to supply chain resilience is under researched. The authors indicate that by combining these capabilities with the upcoming technologies of industry 4.0, supply chain resilience can be achieved. In the future, the authors are planning to conduct further research to identify the influence of these capabilities to supply chain resilience, to quantify supply chain resilience, and to provide further practices of industry 4.0 concept usage for supply chain resilience.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Managing Capabilities for Supply Chain Resilience Through it Integration

Gružauskas

Vilkas

2017

Economics and Business

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“…In addition, water for production must minimize waste water [46,47]. These activities lead to environment-friendly products [48], which means that SSCM ultimatey aims to enhance environmental performance [43,49]. In addition, labor processes must be treated as ethically as possible in production process [50].…”

Section: Sustainable Supply Chainsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Eco-design is explicitly described in ISO 14001, where it recognizes and considers the environmental impact [49], aiming to minimizes the negative environmental impact during the product's life cycle [53]. To achieve this, collaboration in purchasing and production among organizations and partners is necessary.…”

Section: Sustainable Supply Chainsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Sustainable distribution indicates a delivery process where transportation costs are reduced and the carbon footprint is minimized, as defined in ISO 14001 [49]. To attain these goals in distribution process, a firm must consider inventory control, warehousing, and packaging, and must make decisions on facility locations.…”

Section: Sustainable Supply Chainsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A policy can be a regulation or green incentives [49,71]. In the financial market, mutual funds or pension funds may require environmental activities and sustainable practices of the firm in which they are investing [72,73].…”

Section: Sustainable Supply Chainsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Sustainable Supply Chain Based on News Articles and Sustainability Reports: Text Mining with Leximancer and DICTION

Kim

2017

Sustainability

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Abstract:The purpose of this research is to explore sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) trends, and firms' strategic positioning and execution with regard to sustainability in the textile and apparel industry based on news articles and sustainability reports. Further analysis of the rhetoric in Chief executive officer (CEO) letters within sustainability reports is used to determine firms' resoluteness, positive entailments, sharing of values, perception of reality, and sustainability strategy and execution feasibility. Computer-based content analysis is used for this research: Leximancer is applied for text analysis, while dictionary-based text mining program DICTION and SPSS are used for rhetorical analysis. Overall, contents similar to the literature on environmental, social, and economic aspects of the triple bottom line (TBL) are observed, however, topics such as regulation, green incentives, and international standards are not readily observed. Furthmore, ethical issues, sustainable production, quality, and customer roles are emphasized in texts analyzed. The CEO letter analysis indicates that listed firms show relatively low realism and high commonality, while North American firms exhibit relatively high commonality, and Europe firms show relatively high realism. The results will serve as a baseline for providing academia guidelines in SSCM research, and provide an opportunity for businesses to complement their sustainability strategies and executions.

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