دانلود رایگان مقاله انگلیسی چارچوبی برای انتخاب فرآیندهای زنجیره تامین پایدار و استفاده صنایع از رویکرد یکپارچه - الزویر 2018

Abstract:

This study introduces a process view of sustainable supply chain management and identifies 17 sustainable supply chain processes (SSCPs) from literature. Further, a framework is proposed to identify the significance of various SSCPs on firm performance using the theoretical lenses of stakeholder theory and resource based view. Through a semi-structured interview of stakeholders, critical SSCPs across eight industries were identified in the Indian context. The study identifies five important SSCPs, such as sustainable design and development, strategic sourcing and efficient technology and sustainable product returns and recycling. Among the selected industries, pharmaceutical, agricultural and chemical industries were identified to be the front-runners in SSCPs practice. Subsequently, these five processes and three industries were evaluated using strategic decision making approach by integrating group decision making and fuzzy multi-criteria decision making methods. To handle the uncertainties of strategic decision making, six Fuzzy Multi-Criteria Decision Making methods have been applied and compared to understand their relevance while evaluating the above industries, based on the above identified SSCPs. This study introduces an approach to enhance sustainability of supply chain that can be extended across industries through a process view of supply chain, in emerging economies like India.

6.1. Conclusions

Ever-rising stakeholders’ preferences towards improving supply chain performance has triggered the adoption of SSCPs across firm’s supply chain by effective deployment of firm resources. However, role of firms’ resources towards practice of each SSCP under stakeholders’ preferences is yet to be substantiated. Additionally, identification and evaluation of SSCPs (and industries) with a high impact on 3BL performance and high stakeholders’ preferences is not reported either. This paper proposes a framework to address the above concern. Initially, this study identifies 17 discernible SSCPs from the previous literature using stakeholder theory and the RBV, which have an impact on the sustainability performance of the entire supply chain. The 17 identified SSCPs are further classified into six groups, such as sustainable design and development, sustainability evaluation and regulatory issues, based on similarity in the process outcomes.

As mentioned earlier, it is important for firms to prioritize the adoption of SSCPs based on their impact on supply chain performance. In this context, we have identified five key SSCPs namely sustainable product development and commercialization (SSCP 2), sustainable customer relationship management (SSCP 5), use of environment friendly technologies (SSCP 9), sustainable sourcing (SSCP 6), and sustainable product returns and recycling (SSCP 3). We find that these SSCPs are increasingly being emphasized by Indian practitioners, which corroborates Forrester (2005), Chen and Hung (2016), and Zailani et al. (2012).