Sustainability, Circular Economy and Bioeconomy Practices in Resilient Supply Chains
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Bioeconomy of Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 December 2023) | Viewed by 2525
Special Issue Editors
Interests: sustainable supply chains; strategic operations management; reverse logistics; remanufacturing
Interests: supply chain risk management; sustainable supply chains; bioeconomy; decision-making; operations research
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: supply chain risk management; supply chain resilience; sustainable supply chains
Interests: partner selection; collaborative network organization; managing supplier relations; service supply chain management; modeling and analysis of healthcare service operations; reverse logistics management
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Supply chain sustainability, circular economy (CE), and bioeconomy practices have attracted global attention for achieving sustainable development goals. CE and bioeconmy are system-wide concepts of sustainability when viewed as a regenerative system in which resource input and waste, emission, and energy leakage are minimized by slowing, closing, and narrowing material and energy loops. However, given that the know-how and key resources critical for achieving these system-wide objectives do not reside in a single entity, both sustainability, CE, and bioeconomy practices go beyond a given firm’s borders and require a concerted collaborative effort among supply chain entities.
Recently, supply chain resilience has also become an important phenomenon in light of the recent COVID-19 pandemic and other disruptions. It is important to integrate sustainability, CE, bioeconomy, and resilience practices within the supply chain environment to achieve optimal economic, social and environmental performance. While the importance of resilience, sustainability, CE, and bioeconomy practices as a source of competitive advantage cannot be overemphasized, not much understanding exists on how sustainability, circular economy, bioeconomy, and resilience practices co-exist and/or influence each other.
This special issue provides an opportunity to address intersections of sustainability, circular economy, and bioeconomy concepts in the context of resilient supply chains. Researchers are encouraged to submit articles from the perspective of operations and/or supply chains practices, concepts, strategies and/or policy formulations using innovative methods, theories, tools, and techniques.
Dr. Muhammad Dan Asabe Abdulrahman
Dr. Sanjoy Kumar Paul
Dr. Priyabrata Chowdhury
Dr. Rakesh Raut
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sustainability
- circular economy
- bioeconomy
- resilience
- operations management
- supply chain management
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