Special Issue "Managing Sustainability Practices across Multi-Tier Supply Networks"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Management".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2022.

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Mahmoud M. Yasin
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Guest Editor
Department of Management and Marketing, College of Business and Technology, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN 37614, USA
Interests: operations management; supply chain management; sustainable supply chain management
Dr. Mohammad S. Q. Najjar
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Guest Editor
Department of Business Administration, An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine
Interests: supply chain management; sustainable supply chains; social responsibility; complexity theory

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Sustainable supply chain management has been gaining increasing attention from both academicians and scholars during the last two decades. Several practices have been adopted to manage direct suppliers, such as codes of conduct and physical site audits (Liu et al., 2018; Koberg and Longoni, 2019; Sánchez-Flores et al., 2020). However, extending sustainability practices to lower-tier suppliers is much more complex (Sauer and Seuring, 2019; Fraser et al., 2020; Govindan et al., 2020), specifically in global and complex supply networks (Choi et al., 2001; Roy et al., 2018; Koberg & Longoni, 2019). Suppliers across lower tiers are less transparent and traceable (Mejías et al., 2019; Fraser et al., 2020), and violations usually originate from suppliers who are beyond the firm’s direct control (Govindan et al., 2020). Therefore, this Special Issue focuses on this gap. It seeks to understand the different governance mechanisms and practices adopted by leading firms to extend sustainability practices across lower-tier suppliers. Conceptual approaches and empirical research (both case studies and survey-based research) can significantly contribute to this research gap. Topics of interest might include (but are not limited to) managing sustainability across multi-tier supply networks, governance mechanisms in managing sustainability practices across multi-tier supply networks, barriers and complexities in global multi-tier sustainable supply networks, and complex multi-tier sustainable supply networks.

References:

Choi, T. Y., Dooley, K. J., & Rungtusanatham, M. (2001). Supply networks and complex adaptive systems: Control versus emergence. Journal of Operations Management, 19(3), 351–366. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0272-6963(00)00068-1

Fraser, I. J., Müller, M., & Schwarzkopf, J. (2020). Transparency for Multi-Tier Sustainable Supply Chain Management: A Case Study of a Multi-tier Transparency Approach for SSCM in the Automotive Industry. Sustainability, 12(5), 1814.

Govindan, K., Shaw, M., & Majumdar, A. (2020). Social sustainability tensions in multi-tier supply chain: A systematic literature review towards conceptual framework development. Journal of Cleaner Production, 123075.

Koberg, E., & Longoni, A. (2019). A systematic review of sustainable supply chain management in global supply chains. Journal of Cleaner Production, 207, 1084–1098.

Liu, L., Zhang, M., Hendry, L. C., Bu, M., & Wang, S. (2018). Supplier Development Practices for Sustainability: A Multi-Stakeholder Perspective. Business Strategy and the Environment, 27(1), 100–116.

Mejías, A. M., Bellas, R., Pardo, J. E., & Paz, E. (2019). Traceability management systems and capacity building as new approaches for improving sustainability in the fashion multi-tier supply chain. International Journal of Production Economics, 217, 143–158.

Roy, V., Schoenherr, T., & Charan, P. (2018). The thematic landscape of literature in sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) A review of the principal facets in SSCM development. International Journal of Operations & Production Management, 38(4), 1091–1124.

Sánchez-Flores, R. B., Cruz-Sotelo, S. E., Ojeda-Benitez, S., & Ramírez-Barreto, M. (2020). Sustainable Supply Chain Management—A Literature Review on Emerging Economies. Sustainability, 12(17), 6972.

Sauer, P. C., & Seuring, S. (2019). Extending the reach of multi-tier sustainable supply chain management–Insights from mineral supply chains. International Journal of Production Economics, 217, 31–43.

Prof. Dr. Mahmoud M. Yasin
Dr. Mohammad S. Q. Najjar
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • multi-tier sustainable supply networks
  • complex multi-tier sustainable supply networks
  • social and environmental aspects in global multi-tier supply networks

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