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Sustainable Supply Chain Management

In: Practical Sustainability

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  • Navid Sabbaghi
  • Omid Sabbaghi

Abstract

Regulators, customers, courts, shareholders, directors, partners, and (indirectly) competitors place demands on products or firms to reduce their ecological footprint. These demands are known now, but in the future they may be uncertain. In order for firms to survive and compete, they must supply operational innovations both within their firm and further upstream (e.g., their suppliers and their suppliers’ suppliers) in order to meet future sustainability demands. These demands and the supply chain’s response in terms of innovations create sustainability risks that endanger the firm’s survival. The need for firms to manage sustainability risk has driven the evolution of supply chains from operating in forward-only modes to operating in symbiotic modes. This chapter presents an overview of sustainable supply chain management and its focus on managing product and process waste, by-products, and energy consumption in order to manage sustainability risks. Building upon this background of sustainable supply chains, the chapter describes sustainability risks that firms in a supply chain face and surveys methods for inducing sustainable practices among supply chain partners, particularly upstream partners.

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  • Navid Sabbaghi & Omid Sabbaghi, 2011. "Sustainable Supply Chain Management," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Practical Sustainability, chapter 0, pages 101-119, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-11636-8_5
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230116368_5
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    1. Martin Gerner, 2019. "Assessing and managing sustainability in international perspective: corporate sustainability across cultures – towards a strategic framework implementation approach," International Journal of Corporate Social Responsibility, Springer, vol. 4(1), pages 1-34, December.

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