Decision Support for Sustainable Supply Chain Design and Management

Dear Colleagues,

In the last few decades, sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) practices have been developed to integrate environmental concerns into organizations by reducing unintended negative consequences on the environment by production and consumption processes. Existing SSCM literature shows barriers, including complexity and uncertainty, and requirements, including organizational culture and strategy. Decision theory (DT), which provides deeper insight into this, is being studied as a theoretical perspective in SSCM. Thus, at the current time, it is worthwhile to investigate a set of key themes (planning, execution, coordination, and collaboration) and associated research opportunities (with respect to governance, risk, compliance, performance management, and the sustainability dimensions) of SSCM using DT supported techniques and methodology. This Special Issue of Informatics welcomes submissions on the topic of decision support for sustainable supply chain design and management. This inherently interdisciplinary topic draws from research in information science, environmental engineering, management science, artificial intelligence, knowledge engineering and management, and information systems. We encourage authors to submit their original research articles, work in progress, surveys, reviews, and viewpoint articles in this field. This Special Issue welcomes applications, theories, models, and frameworks that are concerned with (but not limited to) the following topics:

Prof. Dr. Wei Yan
Prof. Dr. Junliang He
Prof. Dr. Chun-Hsien Chen
Guest Editors

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