Sustainable Supply Chain Management: A Comprehensive Systematic Review of Industrial Practices

Ehsan Shekarian, Behrang Ijadi, Amirreza Zare and Jukka Majava
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Ehsan Shekarian: European Shared Service Center, Rockwell Automation, 3065 WB Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Behrang Ijadi: Department of Accounting and Information Systems, School of Business, University of Canterbury, Christchurch 8041, New Zealand
Amirreza Zare: School of Engineering and Sciences, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Puebla 72453, Mexico

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 13, 1-30

Abstract: Sustainable business practices are those that allow companies to increase their profit while still considering the triple bottom line of sustainability, which involves economic, environmental, and social aspects. There are a lot of studies exploring various aspects of supply chain practices. However, there remains a gap for the proposal of a complete framework concerning various industries. This research fills this gap by studying existing empirical and review studies. Based on a content analysis of 86 studies, 789 practices are derived and categorized, leading to a comprehensive classification of sustainable practices in supply chains. Moreover, the employed methods to analyze the data are investigated. The practices are cross-checked versus the studied industries showing the current sustainable industries. The details of the studied papers are presented in a comprehensive table. The sustainable framework showing the industrial solutions toward sustainable supply chains is divided into 38 minor practices classified into 11 main categories. This paper provides a novel interpretation of the sustainable solutions addressed by different industries and presents a new and updated classification of the literature identifying future directions. This offers many advantages for practitioners and researchers to transform a supply chain into an improved version in the bigger picture.

Keywords: supply chain management; sustainable supply chains; sustainable practices; industrial classification; review (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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