Sustainable supply chain management as a practice of green innovation - from literature review to conceptualisation Online publication date: Sun, 21-Feb-2016
by Stuart So; Henry Xu
International Journal of Business Innovation and Research (IJBIR), Vol. 10, No. 2/3, 2016
Abstract: The challenge of building a sustainable supply chain with an acceptable low carbon emission requires extensive research and remarkable innovation. Based on a comprehensive literature review, a conceptual model is developed to explain the adoption of sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) as a practice of green innovation. The aim of this work is to strengthen organisation's commitment to using this emerging practice in the future. A total of 66 articles are identified and assessed and the results show that previous studies lack the consideration of human factors and theoretical basis. Using the innovation diffusion theory as a theoretical lens, this paper demonstrates the concepts in real world applications with four relevant mini-cases. It shows that firms with positive organisational behaviour underpinned by pro-environmental technology and management systems can systematically adopt SSCM where ongoing commitment to this new practice is influenced by its regularisation in operations.
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