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Sustainable Retail Supply Chain Management – A Bibliometric Viewpoint

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In this paper, we examine the research domain of sustainable retail supply chain management (SRSCM). Sustainability is a multi-dimensional construct trying to balance social, environmental as well as economic objectives simultaneously. By using citation and co-citation analysis we are able to illustrate the intellectual foundation and roots of this field of research. Our results show that the research domain of SRSCM is embedded in a number of various research sub disciplines including sustainability, retail, logistics, operations and supply chain management as well as the consumer side of supply chain.

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    Underlined numbers indicate circle numbers in Fig. 1; LCS = Local citation score; GCS = Global citation score.

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  1. Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

    Kristina Petljak

  2. University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

    Herbert Kotzab

  3. Universiti Utara Malaysia, Sintok, Malaysia

    Herbert Kotzab

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  2. Maritime Business and Logistics, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

    Hans-Dietrich Haasis

  3. Logistics Management, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

    Herbert Kotzab

  4. Department of Production Engineering, Universität Bremen, Bremen, Germany

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Petljak, K., Kotzab, H. (2020). Sustainable Retail Supply Chain Management – A Bibliometric Viewpoint. In: Freitag, M., Haasis, HD., Kotzab, H., Pannek, J. (eds) Dynamics in Logistics. LDIC 2020. Lecture Notes in Logistics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44783-0_21

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