Title: Sustainable procurement: a critical analysis of the research trend in supply chain management journals

Authors: Suman Tiwari; Chan Shiau Wei; Muhammad Faraz Mubarak

Addresses: Faculty of Technology Management and Business, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, Batu Pahat, Johor, Malaysia ' Faculty of Technology Management and Business, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, Batu Pahat, Johor, Malaysia ' Faculty of Management Sciences, SZABIST University, Campus 100 Clifton, Block 5, Karachi, Pakistan

Abstract: Since the dawn of new millennium, sustainable procurement (SP) has captivated the attention of scholars worldwide. In this context, this paper provides a critical analysis of SP research trend in supply chain management (SCM) journals. The analysis has been carried out using existing literature of SP research contributed by the authors and institutions from assorted countries. Specifically, the research tendency of SP in SCM is identified through a systematic analysis of sustainable procurement research articles published in ten selected SCM journals from 1990 to 2016. The analysis revealed that SP research has an increasing trend in recent times, indicating its widely growing significance. The research topics covered in this paper to focus on the sustainability issues of procurement practices are sustainability issues on the network of supply chain, foundation, SP process, and enablers as well as the determinant of SP. This comprehensive study provides practical insights to researchers and industrialists on the nature and scope of SP in SCM.

Keywords: sustainable procurement; supply chain management; SCM; sustainability issues.

DOI: 10.1504/IJBPSCM.2019.100855

International Journal of Business Performance and Supply Chain Modelling, 2019 Vol.10 No.3, pp.266 - 282

Received: 08 Jun 2018
Accepted: 17 Apr 2019
Published online: 18 Jul 2019 *

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