The Impact of Sustainability and Dynamic Capabilities on Global Supply Chain Management
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Management".
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Special Issue Editors
Interests: international business; supply chain management; digital strategy; sustainable innovation strategy; corporate social responsibility
Interests: operational management; supply chain management; digital strategy; innovation strategy
Interests: global supply chain management; disruptive technology trends; industrial system evolution
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Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue aims at examining dynamic environmental and technological factors that influence firm longevity and ecosystem sustainability. Complex disastrous factors challenge and disrupt the global supply chains in ways that require immediate and continuous responses from firms (Nishiguchi and Beaudet, 1998; Chang, Iakovou, and Shi, 2020; Chopra and Sodhi, 2014; Zhao et al., 2019; Shi, 2020). Natural disasters—the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, hurricanes, and typhoons—also directly affect the supply chain. As production facilities were destroyed due to earthquakes and tsunamis, supply channels and chains were interrupted along with the disruption of established firms’ supply chain networks (Mitroff, 1988; Craighead et al., 2007; Knemeyer et al., 2009; Fujimoto, 2011; Park et al., 2013; Park et al., 2019). However, there are other factors that have an overall impact on the global supply chain. For example, infectious diseases such as COVID-19 as of 2020 have driven the world into a panic with a huge impact due to less transportation and fewer operating factories, which are the main agents of the global supply chain (Fujimoto, 2020).
In response to such a dynamic external environment and technology factors that affect these global supply chains, implementing sociotechnical network capability to diverse risks is becoming increasingly critical for multinational firms. Such capabilities require risk mitigation, resilience responsiveness, business continuity plans, and future scenario planning strategies for achieving a sustainable competitive advantage (Hong and Park, 2020; Oliver and Parrett, 2018; Ramírez and Wilkinson, 2016; Singh and Hong, 2020; Tang et al., ,2018). In the context of mounting uncertainty in international relations, including hegemonic rivalry, nationalistic policies, trade tensions, research frontiers for firm longevity, and ecosystem sustainability are also expanding.
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Dr. Youngwon Park
Dr. Takahiro Fujimoto
Dr. Paul Hong
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Challenges of operating in a global supply chain (e.g. accidents, visible and invisible risks such as COVID-19 etc.)
- Sustainable Risk mitigation Strategies
- Future scenario planning
- Investigating risk, disruption and resilience of operations and supply chain management
- Implications of pandemics, epidemics, and other sources of uncertainty on global supply chain management
- Sustainable Ecosystem strategy
- Global platform strategy for sustainability
- Digitalization Strategy for global supply chain management (e.g. IoT, AI, Digital Transformation etc.)
- Metrics and performance of the IoT investment in global firms
- Sustainable logistics strategies
- Sustainable outsourcing strategies
- Characteristics of Sharing Economy for Sustainability
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