Sustainability in purchasing and supply: Defining the territory

Joe Miemczyk () and Thomas Johnsen ()
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Joe Miemczyk: Audencia Recherche - Audencia Business School
Thomas Johnsen: Audencia Recherche - Audencia Business School

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Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to provide a review of definitions for sustainability in the area of purchasing and supply. In order to do this a literature review is used to define the term sustainability at different levels of supply including the: 1) purchasing, procurement and sourcing 2) supply chain and 3) network levels. Furthermore, measures used in recent studies are also presented in order to demonstrate the typical scope of studies.

Keywords: Purchasing; sustainable; networks (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-05-16
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Published in 19th Annual IPSERA Conference, May 2010, Lappeenranta, Finland

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