Link between Digital Technologies Adoption and Sustainability Performance: Supply Chain Traceability/Resilience or Circular Economy Practices

Aylin Duman Altan (), Ömer Faruk Beyca and Selim Zaim
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Aylin Duman Altan: Department of Industrial Engineering, Istanbul Technical University, 34485 Istanbul, Türkiye
Ömer Faruk Beyca: Department of Industrial Engineering, Istanbul Technical University, 34485 Istanbul, Türkiye
Selim Zaim: Department of Management, Ibn Haldun University; 34480 Istanbul, Türkiye

Sustainability, 2024, vol. 16, issue 19, 1-17

Abstract: Technological progress and digitalization have ushered in significant transformations in business strategies. At present, research is scarcely focused on the influence of the adoption of digital technologies (DTs) on establishing comprehensive relationships within the context of a circular economy (CE), and the supply chain (SC) framework to contribute to the Resource-Based View (RBV) theory. This study utilizes survey data collected from 235 manufacturing practitioners employed by Turkish manufacturing enterprises to explore a model elucidating the relationship between DTs adoption and sustainability performance (SP) through supply chain traceability (SCT), supply chain resilience (SCR), and circular economy practices (CEPs), based on 10R strategies. Through this linkage, this research accentuates that the exclusive integration of CEPs with digital technology solutions is insufficient for industrial enterprises to attain their long-term sustainability goals. It underscores the necessity of ensuring SCT and/or SCR in this context.

Keywords: circular economy; supply chain; traceability; resilience; digital technologies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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