Green Supply Chains and Digital Supply Chains: Identifying Overlapping Areas

Viviana D’Angelo () and Valeria Belvedere
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Viviana D’Angelo: Department of Economics and Business Management Science, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, 20123 Milan, Italy
Valeria Belvedere: Department of Economics and Business Management Science, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, 20123 Milan, Italy

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 12, 1-18

Abstract: This article explores the overlapping between green supply chains and digital supply chains through a bibliometric analysis of the two scientific domains. Using articles’ bibliographic data, we conducted a bibliometric analysis of the literature on green supply chains and digital supply chains to examine the intellectual structure of these research domains. By analyzing 131 studies belonging to five different clusters where digital supply chains and green supply chains overlap, our results reveal different overlapping intensity in the different clusters identified. These results reveal also grey areas in the academic research on green and digital supply chains and they may inspire further research explorations, such as addressing whether and how this approach could produce benefits for companies in terms of environmental and operational performance.

Keywords: green supply chains; Industry 4.0; digital technologies; bibliometric analysis; research area (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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