Journal
SUSTAINABILITY
Volume 11, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/su11041137
Keywords
drivers of sustainable supply chain management; sustainable supply chain management; systematic literature review
Funding
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) [392323616]
- Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH)
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With the increase in awareness of environmental and social issues associated with the development and the use of products, stakeholdersespecially consumersare showing more concern regarding these issues. To address new developments and changing trends, organizations are now compelled to identify and implement innovative and sustainable solutions, not only within their organizations' boundaries, but also across the whole supply chain network. The primary goal of this paper was to identify and analyze drivers of sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) that influence or encourage organizations to undertake sustainability initiatives and implement sustainable solutions throughout their supply chains. For this purpose, a systematic literature review was conducted and 1559 drivers of SSCM were identified from 217 journal articles. Precise interpretation, clear definitions, restructuring, and classification into external and internal driver categories produced a list of 40 unique drivers of SSCM. The results revealed that regulatory and market pressures, with reference to the number of citations, are the most prevailing drivers of SSCM for the implementation of sustainability practices. Classification of the drivers of SSCM into primary and secondary driver categories may assist practitioners and decision makers in prioritizing sustainability-related initiatives and adopting sustainability practices across the whole supply chain network.
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