Sustainable Supply Chain Management in a Circular Economy: A Bibliometric Review
Issued Date
2022-08-01
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eISSN
20711050
Scopus ID
2-s2.0-85137251777
Journal Title
Sustainability (Switzerland)
Volume
14
Issue
15
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SCOPUS
Bibliographic Citation
Sustainability (Switzerland) Vol.14 No.15 (2022)
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Theeraworawit M., Suriyankietkaew S., Hallinger P. Sustainable Supply Chain Management in a Circular Economy: A Bibliometric Review. Sustainability (Switzerland) Vol.14 No.15 (2022). doi:10.3390/su14159304 Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/84265
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Sustainable Supply Chain Management in a Circular Economy: A Bibliometric Review
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Abstract
Since the mid-2010s, the circular economy has emerged as a key conceptual lever in corporate efforts to achieve greater environmental sustainability. Corporations have increasingly drawn upon the circular economy perspective in efforts to rethink sustainable supply chain management practices. This new corporate approach to sustainable supply chain management is evident in an emerging literature that has yet to be fully documented. In this systematic review of research, bibliometric methods were applied to a database of 709 Scopus-indexed documents. Author co-citation analysis identified four schools of thought comprising the intellectual structure of this literature: Sustainable Production and Environmental Management, Sustainable Supply Chain Management, Reverse Supply Chain Management, and Circular Economy. Synthesis of these themes suggests that the adoption of a circular economy perspective is transforming sustainable supply chain management in two important ways. First, this perspective reorients supply chain management away from a narrow focus on efficiency and waste reduction and towards a new paradigm of redesign, reuse, and product transformation. Second, adoption of the circular economy highlights and leverages reverse cycles in the supply chain. Thus, circular economy business models enable supply chain management to enhance corporate contributions to sustainable production and consumption. Drawing upon this framing of supply chain management within a circular economy, the review proposes a new framework for accelerating corporate sustainability.