6. Final considerations
For the achievement of this research objectives, we analyzed 339 publications on GSCM, searching “Web of Science”, “Scopus”, “Taylor & Francis” “Science Direct” and “Ingenta Connect” databases, selecting the terms “Green Supply Chain management” and “GSCM” in the title, abstract and keywords, applying the restriction of be published in English language journals between 2006 and 2016, as an extended sequel of Srivastava (2007) research.
For the construction of Systematic Literature Review, articles resulting from the research were read, studied and classified in categories related to methodological procedures, context, and area where the research took place. Such reading process of 339 articles was necessary to make feasible the literature analysis (research areas, authors, methods, etc.), seen in Tables 5e15. For the development of the Research Profiling, articles information was loaded to VantagePoint software and, after processing, they were organized in tables and graphs. Data was also processed by CitNetExplorer to identify Citation networks, and by CitEspace to generate research cluster figures.