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A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2022.
Special Issue Editors
Interests: sustainable procurement; work health and safety; organizational culture and behaviours
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Interests: construction sustainability; workplace health and safety; process improvement; project leadership
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Interests: procurement; front end planning; agile project management; risk management; project management in cross-cultural environments
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
There is an increasing community expectation to support sustainable products and practices through the billions spent by government and industry in their commercial operations. The way those dollars are spent has the ability to influence environmental, social and local (regional) industry capability outcomes. ISO 20400 defines sustainable procurement as the process of making purchasing decisions that meet an organisation’s needs for goods and services in a way that benefits not only the organisation but society as a whole, while minimising its impact on the environment. Sustainable procurement is a major change to industry practices that requires a shift in approach, priorities and practices of all stakeholders involved. The successful transformation will require synergetic efforts from government, client organisations and other stakeholders. It is challenging to be able to justify decisions for procurement, particularly if decisions become political, and if the right tools or data are not available. Although policies and guidelines have been developed to guide organisations’ sustainable procurement practices, the implementation of the policies and guidelines remains problematic in practice. Sustainable procurement involves a high degree of collaboration and engagement between all parties in a supply chain. The COVID-19 crisis has brought global economies to a standstill and has created unprecedented challenges to many sectors and their supply network. It is therefore critical to enhance the traceability and transparency of supply chain management and help to reinforce the path towards the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, setting new industry standards in sustainable practices.
This Special Issue seeks to respond to the challenges and opportunities for sustainable procurement in various sectors and explore theoretical and practical solutions for integration of sustainability into organisations’ procurement systems and supply network. We intend to cover all areas of sustainable procurement and provide a multidisciplinary perspective on challenges and opportunities, theories, practices and devleopments in this area. Original research, case studies and reviews are welcome to this Special Issue.
Dr. Yingbin Feng
Prof. Dr. Sherif Mohamed
Dr. Tiendung Le
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1900 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.