IJPR 全球可持续发展的多级可持续供应链管理

IJPR 全球可持续发展的多级可持续供应链管理

Important dates:

First submission deadline: 31 October, 2020

1st round decision (major revision): 31 December, 2020

Resubmission: 31 March, 2021

2nd round decision (minor revision): 30 June, 2021

Final acceptance: 31 August 2021

Sustainability is a growing global concern. Production and consumption are the causes of these pressing issues (Tseng et al., 2016). As a result, sustainability is strategically important in both academic research and management practice. Industries and organisations are pressured by various stakeholder and advocacy groups to become more sustainable (Sarkis, 2018; Bai et al., 2019, Kusi-Sarpong et al. 2019, Orji et al., 2019). Organisations have started to respond to this important call by implementing sustainable practices not only within their operations but also in their extended supply chains (Khan et al. 2018; Kusi-Sarpong et al., 2016).

This important step of managing sustainability beyond the focal firm has predominantly focused on an arms-length solution of targeting the first-tier supplier, which is not enough in dealing with the complex issues (Tachizawa and Wong, 2014). A focal firm may not be able to control the unsustainable practices of their suppliers, customers may potentially link their suppliers’ negative behaviours to them (Hartmann and Moeller, 2014). Thus, with a focus on supply chains, leading firms, which play a central role in the entire network, may be at greater risk for being held accountable for the failure of their deep – multi-tier – suppliers, with profound consequences including damage of corporate reputation, increased operational cost, eroded consumer confidence, revenue and margins.

It is unavoidable that such circumstances undermine business sustainability in the long term, particularly under the influence of stricter regulatory compliance, pressure from media, non-government organizations (NGO) and other external stakeholders. How far leading and focal organisations can influence their supply chains to address these pressing global sustainability issues and concerns will determine the diffusion depth level of global supply chain sustainability practices. Multi-tier sustainable supply chains are a vehicle to aid in this important global goal (Sarkis et al., 2019). Multi-tier supply chain management requires that leading firms be able to apply supply chain leadership and supply chain learning to extend their sustainability initiatives to lower-tier suppliers (Gong et al, 2018; Jia et al, 2019).

We invite original manuscripts and studies from scholars, academicians, and industry practitioners to share their latest research in improving industrial and supply chains sustainability through multi-tier supply chain management strategies. Submitted manuscripts and studies may include both theoretical and methodological studies. Analytical methods including multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) models, simulations, network design and optimisation models, case studies, and empirical statistical analyses are all welcome.

Topics of interest

Potential topics for the Special Issue include, but are not limited to the following:

Barriers, enablers, and tools for diffusion of sustainability standards throughout a multi-tier supply chain;
Multi-level analyses and roles of various partners in multi-tier supply chains in managing dissemination of sustainable supply chain management practices; multiple perspectives are encouraged;
How can product research models, tools, theories, and perspectives need to expand to multi-tier complex relationships for multi-tier sustainable supply chain management.
Successes and failures in studies and practice related to multi-tier sustainable supply chains. Practical and clear implications to advance the body of knowledge and practical experience.
Production and supply chain theory advances needed to fully appreciate and investigate the multi-tier sustainable supply chain situation, its complexities, and non-linear relationships.
The interactions and roles of various sustainability elements - social, environmental, and economic - in various supply chain structural and social environments: Linear, closed-loop, and emergent circular economy network investigations.

Principal Guest Editor

Dr. Simonov Kusi-Sarpong (S.Kusi-Sarpong@soton.ac.uk),

Department of Decision Analytics and Risk, Southampton Business School,

University of Southampton, Southampton UK.

Co-editors

Dr. Yu (Jack) Gong (Y.Gong@soton.ac.uk),

Southampton Business School, University of Southampton, UK

Prof. Steve Brown (Steve.Brown@soton.ac.uk),

Southampton Business School, University of Southampton, UK

Dr. Himanshu Gupta (himanshug@iitism.ac.in),

Department of Management Studies, IIT (ISM), India

Prof. Chunguang Bai (cbai@uestc.edu.cn),

School of Management and Economics, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), China

Dr. Ifeyinwa Juliet Orji (ify.juliet@suda.edu.cn)

Dongwu Business School, Soochow University, China

Dr. Stephan Vachon (svachon@ivey.ca),

Ivey Business School, Western University, Canada

References

Bai, C., Kusi-Sarpong, S., Badri Ahmadi, H., & Sarkis, J. (2019). Social sustainable supplier evaluation and selection: a group decision-support approach. International Journal of Production Research, 1-22.

Gong, Y., Jia, F., Brown, S., & Koh, L. (2018). Supply chain learning of sustainability in multi-tier supply chains: A resource orchestration perspective. International Journal of Operations & Production Management, 38(4), 1061-1090.

Hartmann, J., & Moeller, S. (2014). Chain liability in multitier supply chains? Responsibility attributions for unsustainable supplier behavior. Journal of operations management, 32(5), 281-294.

Jia, F., Gong, Y., & Brown, S. (2019). Multi-tier sustainable supply chain management: The role of supply chain leadership. International Journal of Production Economics, 217, 44-63.

Khan, S. A., Kusi-Sarpong, S., Arhin, F. K., & Kusi-Sarpong, H. (2018). Supplier sustainability performance evaluation and selection: A framework and methodology. Journal of cleaner production, 205, 964-979.

Kusi-Sarpong, S., Sarkis, J., & Wang, X. (2016). Assessing green supply chain practices in the Ghanaian mining industry: A framework and evaluation. International Journal of Production Economics, 181, 325-341.

Kusi-Sarpong, S., Gupta, H., & Sarkis, J. (2019). A supply chain sustainability innovation framework and evaluation methodology. International Journal of Production Research, 57(7), 1990-2008.

Orji, I. J., Kusi-Sarpong, S., & Gupta, H. (2019). The critical success factors of using social media for supply chain social sustainability in the freight logistics industry. International Journal of Production Research, 1-18.

Sarkis, J., Gonzalez, E. D. S., & Koh, S. L. (2019). Effective multi-tier supply chain management for sustainability. International Journal of Production Economics, 217, 1-10.

Tachizawa, E. M., & Wong, C. Y. (2014). Towards a theory of multi-tier sustainable supply chains: a systematic literature review. Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, 19(5/6), 643-663.

Tseng, M. L., Tan, K. H., Geng, Y., & Govindan, K. (2016). Sustainable consumption and production in emerging markets. International Journal of Production Economics, 181, Part B, 257-261.

全球可持续发展的多级可持续供应链管理

重要日期：

首次提交截止日期：2020年10月31日

第一轮决定（大修）：2020年12月31日

重新提交：2021年3月31日

第二轮决定（小修）：2021年6月30日

最终接收：2021年8月31日

可持续性是全球日益关注的问题。生产和消费是这些紧迫问题的根源（Tseng等，2016）。因此，可持续性在学术研究和管理实践中都具有重要的战略意义。行业和组织受到各种利益相关者和支持团体的压力，要求它们变得更具可持续性（Sarkis，2018；Bai等，2019，Kusi-Sarpong等，2019，Orji等，2019）。组织已经开始响应这一重要的号召，不仅在其经营范围内，而且在其延伸的供应链中实施可持续的实践（Khan等，2018，Kusi Sarpong等，2016）。

管理焦点企业以外的可持续性的这一重要步骤主要集中在针对一级供应商的公平解决方案上，这在处理复杂问题方面是不够的（Tachizawa和Wong，2014）。焦点企业可能无法控制其供应商的不可持续行为，客户可能会将其供应商的负面行为与其联系起来（Hartmann和Moeller，2014）。因此，以供应链为重点，在整个网络中发挥核心作用的领导企业可能面临更大的风险，因为它们要为其深层次的多级供应商的失败承担责任，从而产生深远的后果，包括损害企业声誉、增加运营成本、削弱消费者信心，收入和利润。

从长期来看，这种情况不可避免地会损害企业的可持续性，特别是在更严格的法规遵从性、来自媒体、非政府组织和其他外部利益相关者的压力下。领导和焦点组织能够在多大程度上影响其供应链，以解决这些紧迫的全球可持续性问题和担忧，这将决定全球供应链可持续性实践的传播深度。多级可持续供应链是帮助实现这一重要全球目标的工具（Sarkis等，2019）。多级供应链管理要求领导企业能够运用供应链领导力和供应链学习，将其可持续性举措扩展到较低层级的供应商（Gong等，2018；Jia等，2019）。

我们邀请来自学者、学会会员和行业从业者的原稿和研究，分享他们通过多级供应链管理战略提高工业和供应链可持续性的最新研究成果。提交的手稿和研究可包括理论研究和方法研究。分析方法包括多准则决策（MCDM）模型、仿真、网络设计和优化模型、案例研究和实证统计分析都是受欢迎的。

感兴趣的主题

本期特刊的潜在主题包括但不限于以下内容：

在多级供应链中传播可持续性标准的障碍、促成因素和工具；
多级供应链中不同合作伙伴在管理可持续供应链管理实践传播方面的多层次分析和角色；鼓励多视角；
如何将产品研究模型、工具、理论和观点扩展到多级复杂关系，以实现多级可持续供应链管理。
多级可持续供应链相关研究和实践的成功与失败。实际和明确的含义，以推进知识体系和实践经验。
生产和供应链理论的进步需要充分认识和研究多级可持续供应链的情况、复杂性和非线性关系。
各种可持续性要素（社会、环境和经济）在各种供应链结构和社会环境中的交互和作用：线性、闭环和新兴循环经济网络研究。

首席特邀编辑

Simonov Kusi Sarpong博士（S.Kusi-Sarpong@soton.ac.uk),

南安普敦商学院决策分析与风险系，

英国南安普敦大学

联合编辑

Yu (Jack) Gong 博士(Y.Gong@soton.ac.uk),

英国南安普顿大学南安普顿商学院

Steve Brown 教授(Steve.Brown@soton.ac.uk),

英国南安普顿大学南安普顿商学院

Himanshu Gupta 博士(himanshug@iitism.ac.in),

印度管理研究部

Chunguang Bai 教授(cbai@uestc.edu.cn),

中国电子科技大学管理与经济学院

Ifeyinwa Juliet Orji 博士(ify.juliet@suda.edu.cn)

苏州大学东吴商学院

Stephan Vachon 博士(svachon@ivey.ca),