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Improving the sustainability of the food sector through Supply Chain 4.0 technologies: the role of consumers
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Circular economy and food waste in supply chains: a literature review
Full text linkThis paper aims to analyse how circular economy (CE) is implemented in the context of food supply chains (SCs) and understand how supply chain management (SCM) can support the transition towards a CE of food waste (FW). Based on a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) and Citation Network Analysis (CNA) of 333 papers, the focus of the study is located at the intersection of three areas, i.e. FW, CE and SCM. We explored how these concepts and fields of research relate to each other and identified research trajectories. The analysis and the synthesis of the reviewed papers allow for identifying research areas and highlighting a lack of a holistic discussion of FW, CE and SCM, which appear weakly related to each other in the existing literature, even if they are essential to the development of circular SCs in the food industry. A research agenda is drawn to drive future research endeavours
A Systematic Literature Network Analysis on Environmental Performance Indicators for supply chains
No full textCulture counts: Implications of consumer preferences for more sustainable ecommerce fulfillment
No full textEcommerce has grown rapidly over the last few years, providing a variety of fulfillment options with various levels of harm to the environment. To inform companies' strategies, this study investigates how national culture relates to consumers' ecommerce fulfillment choices and consumers' willingness to adopt environmentally -sustainable efulfillment options. Through a survey, the research extends the Theory of Planned Behavior to ecommerce fulfillment options for U.S. and Western European consumers. Hypotheses are developed, derived from Schwartz's theory of cultural orientations. Data are analysed through Partial Least Square Structural Equation Modeling. Findings support that Western European consumers are more willing to switch to efulfill-ment transportation methods that reduce environmental impact, regardless of whether they indicate that by improving the environment is a strong value. U.S. consumers are generally unwilling to switch from their preferred ecommerce fulfillment options to more sustainable choices, with few exceptions. By unveiling differ-ences in planned behavior related to cultural orientations, the findings support that businesses should consider differences in consumers' regional behaviors and preferences when designing their ecommerce fulfillment strategies and improving their environmental performance
Crossing the chasm: investigating the relationship between sustainability and resilience in supply chain management
Full text linkIn recent years, several studies have been conducted on the joint investigation of sustainability and supply chain resilience. However, they revealed the presence of divergent viewpoints in discussing the sustainability-resilience relationship. To fill this gap, this paper presents a Systematic Literature Network Analysis that combines the traditional systematic literature review with bibliometric techniques to analyse how the relationship between supply chain sustainability and supply chain resilience has been addressed by previous literature in the main research thematic areas of the field. The analysis revealed the presence of four perspectives for organizing the concepts of supply chain sustainability and supply chain resilience, sustainability and resilience are considered to be two different concepts that rely on separate and distinguishable goals, resilience is considered a component of sustainability, sustainability is considered a component of resilience, and they are considered as synonyms. The rationale for the presence of different perspectives can be identified in the level of detail with which sustain-ability and resilience objectives are considered. As a result, an original framework is developed to explain the different perspectives and link them with the emerging research streams of the literature. Research allows for providing conceptual clarity on definitions and the combination of resilience and sustainability to build a solid theoretical background for academics and to help effectively drive managerial decisions
Increasing supply chain resilence in a global sourcing context
No full textManaging risk has emerged as an issue of critical importance for today’s globalised supply chains. This article focuses on inbound supply risk in a global sourcing context, where increased distances between sources of supply and final markets add uncertainty to supply continuity through longer and more variable lead times. After an in-depth analysis of international supply process vulnerability, this paper identifies a set of approaches for managing risk in order to enhance supply chain resilience. Then, a simulation-based framework for assessing the effectiveness of the proposed approaches was developed and applied on a real case
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