Call for paper on: Special Issue: Sustainable Logistics and Supply Chain Management in Emerging Markets

Journal: Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review

Special Issue on: Sustainable Logistics and Supply Chain Management in Emerging Markets

Introduction

According to the World Bank, since 1970, the overwhelming trends of population growth, shorter product life cycle and the increased purchasing power of consumers have contributed to an increase of 138% in per capita consumption in developed markets as well as an increase of 231% in emerging markets (i.e., those developing countries that have some characteristics of a developed market, but are still developing, such as China and India) by 2013. The substantial global consumption growth leads to a massive demand on global resources (e.g., materials and energy) and induces plenty of pollutants. Given the finite nature of the global resources and the limited ability of the ecosystem to absorb pollutants, sustainability has currently endured as a topic of interest to a large variety of firms and countries. As a result, companies’ decisions on production, supply chain, logistics, product development, and distribution technologies that determine the efficiency of resources consumption and the types and intensity of pollutants induced to the ecosystem, play a crucial role in contributing solutions to the sustainability challenges.

Despite the importance of sustainability, there is a lack of thorough understanding on sustainable logistics and supply chain management in emerging markets that plays an important role in the world economy. Furthermore, for the emerging markets, the adoption of sustainable logistics and supply chains is also particularly important to ensure their active integration into the global economy, wherein sustainability is a crucial condition to access the resources and to attract customers (e.g., the EMD Report). For instance, a number of mainstream global investors (like the ‘ethically’ focused funds) are now using a hybrid model combining environmental, social and governance criteria when making their investment decisions. Consequently, adopting and promoting sustainable logistics and supply chains has become one of the inexorable choices that the global market presents to the firms and governments in emerging markets. For example, emerging markets should devote more efforts to reducing the environmental pollutions, e.g., by adopting green process innovation. Besides, given the limited economic conditions in the emerging markets, various challenges in adopting and promoting sustainable logistics and supply chain management in emerging markets should also be considered. These challenges can be the quite limited infrastructure investments in logistics, the high replenishment costs induced by poor road infrastructure and a lack of formal distribution channels, the unsafe working conditions, as well as insufficient relevant and timely information for making decisions.

Topics of interest in this special issue

This special issue aims at encouraging researchers to study sustainable logistics and supply chain management in the emerging market context from various perspectives. We accept a variety of methodologies, like the game theoretical approach, quantitative empirical analysis, mathematical modeling, big data analytics, as well as behavioral experiments. We welcome papers that address, but are not limited to, the following research topics about sustainable logistics and supply chain management in emerging markets.

• Optimization models for sustainable logistics and supply chains in emerging markets
• Coordination of sustainable supply chains in emerging markets
• Responsible sourcing in emerging markets
• Logistics and supply chain visibility and social responsibility in emerging markets
• Secondhand markets in emerging markets
• Supply chain waste management in emerging markets
• Sustainable marketing-operations interface in emerging markets
• Sustainable supply chain finance in emerging markets
• Cleaner production in emerging markets
• Closed-loop supply chain management in emerging markets
• Government interventions and sustainability policies in emerging markets
• Technological innovations for sustainable logistics and supply chains in emerging markets
• Performance implications of adopting sustainable logistics and supply chains in emerging markets
• Risk management of sustainable logistics and supply chains in emerging markets
• Consumer welfare and ethical consumers in emerging markets
• Industry challenges and opportunities in managing sustainable logistics and supply chains in emerging markets
• Value of sharing economy and social cooperatives in sustainable logistics and supply chain management in emerging economies

This special issue features carefully selected peer-refereed papers that address challenges with a variety of topics. The guest editors believe that the collected papers in this special issue not only bring important managerial and academic insights which contribute to the literature, but they also help lay the foundation for future studies and research in this important area.

Submission and review process: Submission process and papers must adhere to the normal author guidelines of Transportation Research PartE: Logistics and Transportation Review, which can be found at: https://www.elsevier.com/journals/transportation-research-part-e-logistics-and-transportation-review/1366-5545/guide-for-authors

Submission must be made via https://www.evise.com/profile/api/navigate/TRE with clear selection indicating that the submission is for this Special Issue.

All submissions to the Journal TRE: should be submitted via the Transportation Research Part E online submission system. When you submit your paper to the special section, please choose article type “Sustain SCM in Emerge Mkt” otherwise your submission will be handled as a regular manuscript.

Papers submitted to the Special Issue will be subjected to normal thorough double-blind review process.

Key dates:

The first submission date: 1 September 2019

The final submission deadline: 31 December 2019

Expected completion date: 31 August 2020

For any enquires please contact the guest Editors:

Guest-editors:

Chun-Hung CHIU, PhD

Sun Yat-Sen University, China: zhaojx5@mail.sysu.edu.cn

Shu GUO, PhD

University of Liverpool, UK Email: eunice.guo@liverpool.ac.uk

Hugo LAM, PhD

University of Liverpool, UK: Email: hugolam@liverpool.ac.uk

Andrew LYONS, PhD             

University of Liverpool, UK: Email: A.C.Lyons@liverpool.ac.uk

Juzhi ZHANG, PhD

University of Science and Technology of China, China: zjuzhi@ustc.edu.cn

呼吁发表论文：专题：新兴市场的可持续物流和供应链管理

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review

特刊：新兴市场的可持续物流与供应链管理

导言

根据世界银行的资料，自1970年到2013年，人口增长的巨大趋势、产品生命周期缩短和消费者购买力的提高导致发达市场人均消费增长138%，新兴市场(即那些具有发达市场某些特点但仍在发展中的发展中国家，如中国和印度)增长231%。全球消费的大幅增长导致了对全球资源(如材料和能源)的巨大需求，并产生了大量的污染物。鉴于全球资源的有限性和生态系统吸收污染物的能力有限，可持续目前已成为许多公司和国家感兴趣的主题。因此，公司关于生产、供应链、物流、产品开发和分销技术的决策，决定了资源消耗的效率以及对生态系统产生的污染物的类型和强度，在促进解决可持续性挑战方面发挥了关键作用。

尽管可持续性具有重要意义，但对新兴市场的可持续物流和供应链管理缺乏透彻的了解，而这种管理在世界经济中发挥着重要作用。此外，对新兴市场而言，采用可持续的物流和供应链对于确保它们积极融入全球经济也特别重要，在全球经济中，可持续性是获取资源和吸引客户的一个关键条件(例如，EMD报告)。例如，一些主流的全球投资者(如“以道德为重点”的基金)现在作出投资决策时采用了将环境、社会和治理标准相结合的混合模式。因此，采用和促进可持续物流和供应链已成为全球市场向新兴市场的公司和政府提供的必然选择之一。例如，新兴市场应更加努力减少环境污染，例如采用绿色工艺创新。此外，鉴于新兴市场的经济条件有限，还应考虑在新兴市场采用和促进可持续物流和供应链管理方面的各种挑战。这些挑战可能是物流基础设施投资相当有限，道路基础设施薄弱导致的补给费用高昂，缺乏正式的分销渠道，工作条件不安全，以及相关和及时的决策性信息不足。

这期特刊中值得关注的话题

这一专题旨在鼓励研究人员从不同的角度研究新兴市场环境下的可持续物流和供应链管理。我们接受多种方法，如博弈论方法、定量经验分析、数学建模、大数据分析以及行为实验。我们欢迎关于新兴市场可持续物流和供应链管理的以下研究主题的论文，但不限于此。

• 新兴市场可持续物流和供应链优化模型
• 新兴市场可持续供应链的协调
• 新兴市场的道德采购
• 新兴市场的物流和供应链透明度和社会责任
• 新兴市场的二手市场
• 新兴市场的供应链废物管理
• 新兴市场的可持续营销-运营交叉研究
• 新兴市场的可持续供应链融资
• 新兴市场的清洁生产
• 新兴市场的闭环供应链管理
• 新兴市场的政府干预和可持续性政策
• 新兴市场可持续物流和供应链的技术创新
• 新兴市场采用可持续物流和供应链的绩效影响
• 新兴市场可持续物流和供应链的风险管理
• 新兴市场的消费者福利和道德消费者
• 新兴市场可持续物流和供应链管理面临的挑战和机遇
• 共享经济和社会合作社在新兴经济体可持续物流和供应链管理中的价值

本期特刊刊登了经过精心挑选的同行评审论文，旨在解决各种主题的挑战。客座编辑认为，这期特刊所收集的论文，不仅为这一重要领域的未来研究和研究提供了重要的管理和学术见解，也为这一重要领域的研究奠定了基础。

提交和审查程序：提交过程和论文必须遵守TRE的正常作者指南，可在以下网站找到：https：/www.lesvier.com/日志/运输-研究-部分-电子物流和运输-评论/1366-5545/指南-为作者

提交必须通过https：/www.evise.com/profile/api/导航/tre有明确的选择，表明提交的是这特刊的文章。

所有的论文必须在TRE在线提交系统提交。当您将论文提交到专区时，请选择文章类型“Sustain SCM in Emerge Mkt”，否则，你的文章将会作为常规文章处理。

提交特刊的论文将接受正常、彻底、双盲的审查.

主要日期：

首次提交日期：2019年9月1日

最后提交截止日期：2019年12月31日

预期完成日期：2020年8月31日

如有任何查询，请联络特邀编辑：

特邀编辑：

Chun-Hung CHIU, PhD

中山大学，中国：zhaojx 5@mail.sysu.edu.cn

Shu GUO, PhD

英国利物浦大学，电子邮件：eunice.guo@liverinfo.gov.hk.ac.uk

Hugo LAM, PhD

英国利物浦大学，电子邮件：hugolam@liverinfo.gov.hk.ac.uk

Andrew LYONS, PhD

英国利物浦大学，电子邮箱：A.C.Lyons@liverpool.ac.uk

Juzhi ZHANG, PhD

中国科学技术大学，电子邮箱：zjuzhi@ustc.edu.cn