This article aims to serve several purposes. First of all, it provides an overview of the opportunities and challenges involved in the implementation of a sustainable supply chain, as well as the CLSC. Secondly, It includes an analysis of the cost saving, risk mitigation, the delivery of a superior service with the provision of returns and the opportunity of reducing the company’s carbon footpr...

In recent years the topic of Sustainable Supply Chain Management (sSCM) has received growing attention and has become an increasingly popular research area. Today, companies must tackle multiple new challenges: they have to address the problem of rapid climate changes, face the negative impact of the financial crisis and the prices, deal with the growing public interest in ecology (e.g. Green L...

With the emergence of environmental protection as a global issue, implementing environmental practices for sustaining green supply chain management (GSCM) has received a lot of attention. This study investigates the impact of integration with suppliers and supply disruption risk on environmental practices. It also examines the role of supplier integration and supply disruption risk on performan...

Purpose Managing supply chains (SCs) for sustainability often results in conflicting demands, which can be conceptualized as tensions. This paper studies tensions electronics SC contexts and the related management responses by applying a paradox perspective. Design/methodology/approach A single case study on is conducted with companies third-party organizations embedded units of analysis, using...

This paper presents a framework for tour operators to use in the implementation of supply chain management processes to improve sustainability performance. This is critical for a sector that historically has treated impacts as externalities and suppliers as commodities, and in which recent sustainability actions have been informal or ecosavings led. This framework is part of the outcome from th...

Over the past few decades, there have increasing concerns about the negative impacts of business activities on the environment and society. Business activities have been straining earth’s rare resources, producing massive air, water, and land waste, and creating undesirable social consequences. There has been growing amount of research about sustainability as well as an increasing number of com...

supply chain management is one of modern approach in the field of operation and production management. nowadays success and survival of manufacturing organizations depend on effectiveness and productivity of supply chains. this research tries to investigate contributing factor to enhance supply chain productivity. then by using fuzzy promethe-a multiple attribute decision making (madm) - tous a...

Integrating environmental considerations into supply-chain management has become an increasingly important issue for industry, government and academic researchers. Supply chain managers are being required to respond to the challenges of new legislation, standards and regulations; changing customer demands; drivers for efficiency, cost effectiveness and return on investment; while simultaneously...

This working paper examines recent sustainability reports published by corporations listed on the London Stock Exchange. Changes in UK legislation mean reporting of carbon emissions is now mandatory for these companies. This provides an opportunity to analyze the relative carbon associated with different sectors, and the significance of internal action, covered by sustainable operations managem...

The Internet and its related services create an interactive working environment for users. Through the Internet, effective collaboration becomes possible whenever, wherever, and with whomever. Recently, there has been a significant growth in e-Business transactional information sharing and collaboration especially in supply chain management. The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of co...