Purchasing and Supply Management towards Sustainability
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 November 2021) | Viewed by 784
Special Issue Editors
Interests: strategic sourcing and supply management; supply risks; multitier supply chain management; sustainable supply chain management
Interests: supply chain sustainability
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Dear Colleagues,
The importance of sustainable development is unquestionable. While firms can directly influence sustainability performance within their own organizational boundaries, their product’s footprint also depends on the sustainability performance of the related supply chain partners—upstream and downstream. Focusing on the upstream supply chain, the purchasing and procurement functions play a key role in developing sustainable practices in a firm’s supply network. Firms struggle with limited resources (i.e., skills, time, budgets), little transparency or the complexity of their large and global supply networks. Yet, the full implementation of sustainable practices in supply networks still remains a vision for most supply networks.
This Special Issue seeks to bring together papers that enhance the further development of firms’ purchasing and supply management functions to improve and ensure sustainability performance of firms’ related supply networks.
Prof. Dr. Jörg H. Grimm
Prof. Dr. Chunguang Bai
Prof. Dr. Erik Hofmann
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Sustainable multitier supply chains and the management of subsuppliers
- Diffusion of sustainability standards in supply networks
- Corporate social responsibility and supply chain finance
- Innovations and circular economy at the supply side
- Digitalization and sustainability in purchasing
- Blockchain technology and sustainable supply management
- Supplier selection: economical vs. environmental and social criteria
- Integrating purchasing incentives: savings measurement and sustainable behavior
- Theories in sustainable supply management
- State-of-the art analysis of literature at the intersection of sustainability and supply management
- Methodological approaches in sustainable supply management
- Future outlook on the examination of sustainability issues in procurement and supply management
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