مقاله انگلیسی رایگان در مورد ارزیابی عملکرد مدیریت زنجیره تامین بر اساس اقتصاد دایره ای – الزویر 2018

Nowadays, the sustainable supply of natural resources, increasing cost pressures with economic sustainability, environmental and political constraints in the supply chain, and environmental problems gained importance for businesses to have sustainable economic models. With the transition of linear economy to circular economy, companies need to consider sustainability and closed-loop cycle. Circular economy emphasizes minimal resource consumption and environmental protection, thus companies consider implementing green supply chain. Especially traditional supply chain produces waste, cause ecological problems and does not consider society and environment. Due to stricter regulations, high level of commercial competition and increased public pressure, companies increasingly need to include environmental concerns into their strategic planning and their practices as a corporate environmental strategy (Zhu et al., 2008; Vanalle et al., 2017). Between the late 1980s and the early 1990s, green awareness emerged as new competitive strategic weapon for firms. Also, several factors caused companies to engage in environmental considerations including, economic and legislation concerns, social responsibility, ethics and stakeholder pressures (Walton et al., 1998; Beamon, 1999; Bansal and Roth, 2000; Carter et al., 2000; Sarkis, 2003; Hervani et al., 2005; Ferguson and Toktay, 2006; Walker et al., 2008). Environmental and social concerns lead the closed loop processes to prevent disposal of consumed goods. Within this closed loop, circular economy proposes a system based approach on recycling and reusing materials and to reduce the amount of materials, therefore it makes sustainability more possible (Sauvé et al., 2016). Companies became more environmentally-conscious in the supply chain aiming to reduce waste, preserve the quality of product life, and conserve natural resources to serve customers better (Walton et al., 1998; Min and Kim, 2012). Wei et al. (2014) emphasized that GSCM within the circular economy plays an important role in the development of manufacturing industry.