Integrating sustainability and resilience in the supply chain: A systematic literature review and a research agenda

Sustainability has emerged as an important industrial strategic outlook expanding beyond organizational boundaries to include the supply chain. Simultaneously, the industry has also been faced with supply chain resilience concerns. Research on the intersection of supply chain sustainability and resi...

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Published in:Business strategy and the environment 2021-11, Vol.30 (7), p.2858-2886
Main Authors: Negri, Marta, Cagno, Enrico, Colicchia, Claudia, Sarkis, Joseph
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Confusion
Evaluation
Literature reviews
Performance measurement
Resilience
Supply
supply chain
supply chain resilience
Supply chain sustainability
Supply chains
Sustainability
sustainable supply chain
Systematic review
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Summary:Sustainability has emerged as an important industrial strategic outlook expanding beyond organizational boundaries to include the supply chain. Simultaneously, the industry has also been faced with supply chain resilience concerns. Research on the intersection of supply chain sustainability and resilience is nascent and is a consequence of their observed mutual influences. However, confusion about concepts, implementation methods, and measurements of sustainable and resilient supply chains remains. This study completes a systematic literature review that critically examines several major observations and directions. We find the concept of sustainable supply chains is more established, and general agreement on its theoretical foundations exists. Supply chain resilience is relatively less mature. The nexus and relationships between the two topics are often incoherent: there is confusion on sustainable and resilient supply chains establishment; there is no clarity on what practices could jointly advance both areas. A major conflict exists since sustainability generally focuses on efficiency, while resilience seeks effectiveness. We recommend studies to analyze implementation relationships and impact. We also observe that performance measurement systems should be developed to assess supply chain sustainability and resilience performance taking with explicit consideration time horizons considered in these measures.
ISSN:0964-4733
1099-0836
DOI:10.1002/bse.2776