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Sustainability Issues in Supply Chain Management

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Management".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2023) | Viewed by 9290

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Guowei Hua

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School of Economics and Management, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China
Interests: logistics management and supply chain; facility location; operation management
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Prof. Dr. T. C. Edwin Cheng

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PolyU Business School, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Interests: e-business and e-commerce; information systems management; innovation and technology management; operations management; quality management; scheduling science; supply chain management
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Prof. Dr. Hao Zhang

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Science and Technology Department, Business School, Beijing Technology and Business University, Beijing 102488, China
Interests: supply chain and logistics management; applied economics; data management; complex system modeling and simulation
Dr. Luoyi Sun

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1. Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
2. Department of Operations, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Groningen, 9700 AB Groningen, The Netherlands
Interests: supply chain management; operations management, platform management
Dr. Xiaoxue Zhou

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National Institute of Transportation Development, Bejing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China
Interests: sustainable logistics management; sustainable transportation

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

As the outlook for globalization grows cloudy and COVID-19 spreads, its effects on supply chains around the world are amplified. Supply chain management has become more challenging, and sustainability is being emphasized.

Many innovative and sustainable practices are developed, which would affect every aspect from the last-mile delivery to the entire supply chain. There are contemporary three main aspects of factors challenging the existing theories of supply chain management:

  1. Emergencies and geopolitics

From the pandemic to the war in Ukraine, intensifying geopolitical risk has been an increasing feature of world politics. One of the economic consequences of such emergencies is the further debilitation of the system of integrated supply chains and financial markets. More attention is needed to optimize the supply chain processes to grapple with disruptions aroused from geopolitics based on the sustainability goals.

  1. Digital technologies

We are witnessing the latest digital technologies, including artificial intelligence, blockchain, big data analytics, industrial internet of things, and cloud computing, bringing real-time visibility to the supply chain. A visible supply chain enables supply chain managers to make their decisions more flexible, responsive, and efficient, based on their operation process, resources, and other capabilities.

  1. Environmental responsibility and green technologies

The environmental impact of logistics and supply chain activities is beginning to be more particularly concerned. To speed up the shift from dirty energy, the adoption of clean energy will inevitably create various challenges as the new practices become embedded, from delivery, such as switching to electric vehicles, to the entire supply chain, such as redesigning the whole network to develop green supply chains.

In response to the increasing pressures to incorporate innovative sustainable practices into supply chain management, this Special Issue aims at attracting research focused on the general theme of sustainability, with particular attention to the contemporary factors affecting unforeseeable disruptions of supply chains and to the potential of technologies to enhance the sustainability of supply chains. We believe this topic will capture a variety of contributions due to cross-cutting issues, including digital technology, emergency, geopolitics, energy, environmental performance and responsibility, and other fields.

Prof. Dr. Guowei Hua
Prof. Dr. T.C. Edwin Cheng
Prof. Dr. Hao Zhang
Dr. Luoyi Sun
Dr. Xiaoxue Zhou
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Keywords

  • sustainable supply chain management
  • sustainable operations management
  • digital technologies for sustainability
  • geopolitics and emergencies
  • risk management for sustainable supply chain
  • supply chain disruptions

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Low-Carbon Supply Chain Operation Decisions and Coordination Strategies Considering the Consumers’ Preferences
by Limin Su, Yongchao Cao and Wenjuan Zhang
Sustainability 2023, 15(14), 11078; https://doi.org/10.3390/su151411078 - 15 Jul 2023
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Implementing the low-carbon transformation strategy has become an inevitable choice for manufacturing enterprises. However, suppliers often overlook the impact of consumers’ preferences for low-carbon products (LCPs) on their own low-carbon strategies. Based on this idea, this study uses game theory models to analyze [...] Read more.
Implementing the low-carbon transformation strategy has become an inevitable choice for manufacturing enterprises. However, suppliers often overlook the impact of consumers’ preferences for low-carbon products (LCPs) on their own low-carbon strategies. Based on this idea, this study uses game theory models to analyze how consumer preferences affect suppliers’ decision-making and coordination strategies in low-carbon supply chains (LCSCs). Results show that (1) manufacturers and retailers are more likely to produce and promote LCPs as consumers become more sensitive to carbon emission reduction (CER); (2) manufacturers are less likely to produce LCPs but retailers are more likely to promote them as consumers become more sensitive to promotional rates; and (3) manufacturers are less likely to produce LCPs but retailers are more likely to promote them as consumers become more sensitive to retail prices. This study concludes that consumer preferences play a crucial role in determining suppliers’ decisions and coordination strategies in LCSCs. Full article
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Employees’ Perceptions of Green Supply-Chain Management, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Sustainability in Organizations: Mediating Effect of Reflective Moral Attentiveness
by Yasir Hayat Mughal, Kesavan Sreekantan Nair, Muhammad Arif, Fahad Albejaidi, Ramayah Thurasamy, Muhammad Asif Chuadhry and Saqib Yaqoob Malik
Sustainability 2023, 15(13), 10528; https://doi.org/10.3390/su151310528 - 4 Jul 2023
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(1) Background: The increasing level of concern over reduction non-renewable resources, global warming, pollution, and social issues has led firms to initiate green and social activities. Furthermore, there is limited empirical evidence on the potential impact of green initiatives, corporate social responsibility (CSR), [...] Read more.
(1) Background: The increasing level of concern over reduction non-renewable resources, global warming, pollution, and social issues has led firms to initiate green and social activities. Furthermore, there is limited empirical evidence on the potential impact of green initiatives, corporate social responsibility (CSR), and reflective moral attentiveness (RMA) on sustainable performance. The purpose of this study was to investigate the mediating effect of reflective moral attentiveness (RMA) on the relationship between green supply-chain-management practices (GSCM) and CSR on sustainable performance. Based on the natural-resource-based view, stakeholder resource-based view, and signaling theory, this study investigated the role of GSCM practices and CSR in sustainable performance using cross-sectional data from the manufacturing and services industries from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, in Pakistan. (2) Methods: Using a non-probability convenience-sampling method, 500 employees were selected from the firms which are listed on the Pakistan stock exchange (PSE) and questionnaires were distributed. Complete questionnaires were received from 380 employees and used in the analysis, yielding a response rate of 76%. Partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) software was used for the confirmatory-factor analysis (CFA) and the testing of the hypotheses. The CFA results revealed the reliability and validity of the questionnaires. (3) Results: The results of the structural model (hypotheses testing) show that four attributes of GSCM practices (internal environmental management, green purchasing, cooperation with customers, and eco-design) have a positive influence on sustainable performance, while investment recovery and CSR were found to be insignificant. Moreover, there were significant and positive influences of GSCM and RMA on sustainable performance. On the other hand, control variables, such as gender, experience, and age, were found to have no significant role in sustainable performance. A further analysis revealed that reflective moral attentiveness mediated the relationship between GSCM, CSR, and sustainable performance. (4) Conclusions/implications: This study has several implications for green services and manufacturing firms specifically and for practitioners, researchers and academics in general. The innovation and novelty of this study lie in its determination of the contribution of RMA, GSCM, and CSR to achieving sustainable performance. Firms can improve their clean production activities by incorporating this model as a strategy. Future studies may add moderators and mediators to explore the impact of CSR and GSCM practices upon sustainability. Full article
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Logistics Service Supply Chain Vertical Integration Decisions under Service Efficiency Competition
by Xiaomeng Zhang, Qilan Zhao, Jianjun Zhang and Xiongping Yue
Sustainability 2023, 15(5), 3915; https://doi.org/10.3390/su15053915 - 21 Feb 2023
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In the logistics sector, price competition is no longer the only form of horizontal competition between logistics service integrators; instead, it frequently takes the form of service efficiency competition among chains. Facing fierce market competition, vertical resource integration gradually becomes the trend in [...] Read more.
In the logistics sector, price competition is no longer the only form of horizontal competition between logistics service integrators; instead, it frequently takes the form of service efficiency competition among chains. Facing fierce market competition, vertical resource integration gradually becomes the trend in logistics industry integration. Using the inverse derivation method and comparative analysis, this study examines the relationship between the overall profit of its chain and that of the rival chain under service efficiency competition with or without the integration strategy. Furthermore, it builds two parallel competition logistics service supply chain models based on the inter-chain Nash competition and Stackelberg game of the chain members. The study results demonstrate that when the cost per unit of service efficiency is fixed, the greater the intensity of competition between chains, the more managers should tend to choose an integration strategy to maximize their profits. More interestingly, we find that the optimal integration decision of the supply chain is independent of the competitive intensity when the cost required to improve the unit service efficiency is extremely high. Full article
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