TY - JOUR
T1 - Supply chain collaboration for sustainability
T2 - A literature review and future research agenda
AU - Chen, Lujie
AU - Zhao, Xiande
AU - Tang, Ou
AU - Price, Lydia
AU - Zhang, Shanshan
AU - Zhu, Wenwen
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2017/12
Y1 - 2017/12
N2 - New technology is altering business strategies and innovation capabilities while increasing the possibilities of production and process innovation. Supply chain collaboration undertaken for the sake of sustainability is currently speeding up this process of change; a growing pool of research is exploring the links between sustainability collaboration and company performance on economic, environmental, and social metrics. It is a good time to review the literature to reveal what has been studied and what are the gaps in the current body of knowledge, and also to comment on what the future research agenda should include. For these purposes, the authors conducted a systematic literature review and a quantitative bibliometric analysis. Results indicate that research about supply chain collaboration for the purpose of sustainability is gaining growing attention in the business field; however, environmental and economic considerations still dominate the research, while there is a lack of consideration about social concerns such as child labor and personal development. In addition, the collaboration partners under investigation have mainly been the company and its customers and suppliers, whereas competitors and other horizontal collaboration partners have received little attention.
AB - New technology is altering business strategies and innovation capabilities while increasing the possibilities of production and process innovation. Supply chain collaboration undertaken for the sake of sustainability is currently speeding up this process of change; a growing pool of research is exploring the links between sustainability collaboration and company performance on economic, environmental, and social metrics. It is a good time to review the literature to reveal what has been studied and what are the gaps in the current body of knowledge, and also to comment on what the future research agenda should include. For these purposes, the authors conducted a systematic literature review and a quantitative bibliometric analysis. Results indicate that research about supply chain collaboration for the purpose of sustainability is gaining growing attention in the business field; however, environmental and economic considerations still dominate the research, while there is a lack of consideration about social concerns such as child labor and personal development. In addition, the collaboration partners under investigation have mainly been the company and its customers and suppliers, whereas competitors and other horizontal collaboration partners have received little attention.
KW - Literature review
KW - Supply chain collaboration
KW - Sustainability
KW - Triangulation technique
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85018684024&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.ijpe.2017.04.005
DO - 10.1016/j.ijpe.2017.04.005
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85018684024
SN - 0925-5273
VL - 194
SP - 73
EP - 87
JO - International Journal of Production Economics
JF - International Journal of Production Economics
ER -