مقاله انگلیسی رایگان در مورد مدیریت زنجیره تامین پایدار در کشورهای در حال توسعه – الزویر 2018

Sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) is defined by Seuring and Müller (2008: 1700) as “the management of material, information and capital flows as well as cooperation among companies along the supply chain while taking goals from all three dimensions of sustainable development, i.e., economic, environmental and social, into account which are derived from customer and stakeholder requirements”. Different authors emphasize different dimensions of sustainability. When dealing with environmental issues, companies and academics refer to green supply chain management or environmental management programmes that aim to reduce harmful effects to the environment (Brik et al., 2013; Mathiyazhagan et al., 2015; Zhu and Sarkis, 2004). Environmental initiatives include moves towards green purchasing, resource efficiency, product design for the environment, waste management, ecoefficiency in operations and reverse logistics (Hsu et al., 2016; Sen, 2009). When seeking the integration of environmental concerns into supply chain management, coordination among actors in the supply chain has been found to be the key (Zhu et al., 2010). Social sustainability is associated primarily with labour conditions, well-being, quality of life, equality, diversity and connectedness, both within and outside the community (Mani et al., 2016), with an emerging research area on integration of the local community into supply chain activities (Bendul et al., 2016). Finally, the economic dimension is usually measured in terms of sales, market share, operational efficiency, and upgrading (Gimenez and Tachizawa, 2012; Marchi et al., 2013). SSCM is a research area that has received increasing attention in the last decade. A number of reviews of the literature have been published with different foci, such as the definition and measurement of SSCM (Miemczyk et al., 2012; Seuring and Müller, 2008), their environmental impacts, green supply chain management (Fahimnia et al., 2015), and green purchasing (Appolloni et al., 2014); while others are focused on the social impacts of SSCM (Yawar and Seuring, 2015; Zorzini et al., 2015). Finally, some articles discuss both environmental and social effects (Ashby et al., 2012).