Sustainable Supply Chain Management: Taxonomy, Gaps, and Future Directions

Abstract

Over the past few decades, there have increasing concerns about the negative impacts of business activities on the environment and society. Business activities have been straining earth’s rare resources, producing massive air, water, and land waste, and creating undesirable social consequences. There has been growing amount of research about sustainability as well as an increasing number of companies that show efforts to integrate sustainability into their operations. However, the accumulative literature is still maturing at the micro levels and is currently fragmented. The existing studies reside in the level of understanding the phenomenon and building theories. In particular, there is lim..