Knowledge Management Practices for Sustainable Supply Chain Management: A Challenge for Business Education

In the last decades, business competition has been increasingly among supply chains (SCs) rather than individual firms. Today, considering challenges of environmental, social, and economic sustainability, it is becoming even more vital to coordinate co-manage company resources, activities, innovative efforts at SC level. Consequently, knowledge, which a critical resource for companies, needs be managed properly not only in single firms but also across SCs. For education managers, this implies double challenge: first, make students future executives become aware knowledge management (KM) practices that can adopted; second, facilitate assimilation these effective SCs, ensure higher environmentally sustainable performances. Standard definitions classifications great help, current studies are very fragmented. This study contributes by exploring literature examining KM proposed defined different authors. A systematic review descriptive analysis selected papers showed trend focus fields. addition, based on drawn from literature, paper discusses possible systematization key The major contribution effort re-definition re-classification their potential importance management. especially useful organizing courses targeted managers.