Publication: Mapping the knowledge base of sustainable supply chain management: A bibliometric literature review
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2020-09-01
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20711050
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Mahidol University
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Sustainability (Switzerland). Vol.12, No.18 (2020)
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Suthep Nimsai, Chanin Yoopetch, Polin Lai Mapping the knowledge base of sustainable supply chain management: A bibliometric literature review. Sustainability (Switzerland). Vol.12, No.18 (2020). doi:10.3390/SU12187348 Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/59059
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Mapping the knowledge base of sustainable supply chain management: A bibliometric literature review
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© 2020 by the authors. Supply chain management (SCM) concerns itself with the integration of a firm's internal management processes with the external environment. This could explain why sustainability has been embraced by scholars who study SCM. This bibliometric review was untaken with the explicit goals of updating and extending prior reviews of research on sustainable SCM (S-SCM). The goals of this research were to document the scope and development of S-SCM research; identify influential journals, authors, and documents; analyze the intellectual structure of this field of sustainability inquiry, and highlight emerging topics on the frontier of S-SCM inquiry. By using bibliometric tools, a relatively large and rapidly growing corpus of peer-reviewed research documents concerned with S-SCM were found. Citation analyses of journals, authors, and documents yielded a surprisingly high level of scholarly content for a literature body of such recent vintage. The author co-citation analysis revealed three coherent but closely connected groups of thought that comprise the intellectual structure of this knowledge base. Finally, the analysis identified a constellation of topics concerned with the integration of internal processes (e.g., decision-making, manufacturing, sensitivity analysis, risk assessment, life-cycle assessment) and the organizational environment (e.g., climate change, gas emissions, carbon emissions, greenhouse gases, energy utilization, climate change). The results of this research concluded that SCM practitioners and scholars may have embraced sustainability more than any other field of management.