Sustainability and Green Supply Chain Management in Industrial Fields

Dear Colleagues,

Green supply chain management (GSCM) is a concept that integrates environmental aspects into traditional supply chain practices and can provide advantages not only through environmental performance but also at the organizational and economic levels (Machfudiyanto and Wijaya, 2024). Indeed, it is well known that the green management and environmental sustainability of the supply chain contribute to the reduction in whole-system costs through a more efficient use of resources such as water, energy and raw materials (Walker et al., 2008). In the modern era, green development has become essential to industrial supply chains (Shi et al., 2024).

Recently, GSCM has emerged as a novel sustainable solution approach to the traditional linear economic model of production and consumption (Panpatil et al., 2023). In the modern business world, environmental regulations, customer satisfaction, social awareness, environmentally friendly business process and economic growth are vital dimensions of competitiveness (Li et al., 2018).

The purpose of this Special Issue is to encourage research that provides evidence of the importance of sustainability in industrial fields through modelling, real-world applications, empirical investigations and case studies.

References:

1. Li, S., Shi, W., Li, H., Xu, N., Zhang, R., Chen, X., Sun, W., Wen, D., He, S., Pan, J. and He, Z. (2018), “Antibiotics in water and sediments of rivers and coastal area of Zhuhai City, Pearl River estuary, south China”, Science of the Total Environment, Vol. 636, pp. 1009-1019
2. Machfudiyanto, R.A., Wijaya, P.A (2024), “Green supply chain management strategy in the Indonesian construction industry using analytic network process to improve sustainability”, E3S Web of Conferences, 476
3. Panpatil, S.S.,  Lahane, S.,  Kant, R. (2023), “Performance measurement framework of green supply chain implementation in the context of Indian manufacturing organizations”, Journal of Advances in Management Research, 20 (4), pp. 623-652
4. Shi, W.,  Hu, Q.,  Zhou, Y. (2024), “Evolutionary game analysis of vehicle procurement in the courier industry from the perspective of green supply chain”, International Journal of Industrial Engineering Computations, 15 (1), 223-234
5. Walker, H., Di Sisto, L., and McBain, D. (2008). Drivers and barriers to environmental supply chain management practices: Lessons from the public and private sectors. Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management, 14(1), 69-85.

Dr. Giorgia Casella
Dr. Letizia Tebaldi
Prof. Dr. Eleonora Bottani
Guest Editors

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