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Unveiling Unbalance on Sustainable Supply Chain Research: Did We Forget Something?

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Abstract

Even though it has been theorized that initiatives on sustainable development should pursue an equilibrium among social, environmental and economic dimensions, several studies have pointed that an unbalance exists regarding the consideration of the three dimensions. However, there is little evidence to support such unbalance. Thus, in this article, we propose a tool to determinate sustainable dimensions balance by representing sustainable efforts according to their orientation. To test our tool, we reviewed about ten years of literature from top tier journals dealing with Sustainable Supply Chain issues to establish the sustainable efforts undertaken. Our results visually unveil unbalance on research in this field and show that most research is oriented to environmental and economic aspects, leaving social issues aside.

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Notes

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    Some authors, as Handfield et al. [17], use the term Environmental Supply Chain Management instead of GSCM. All the same, both terms are equivalents.

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    Some authors, as Ciliberti et al. [18], use the term Social Responsible Supply Chain Management instead of Logistics Social Responsibility. Others, as Murphy and Poist [14], use the term Socially Responsible Logistics. All the same, cited terms are equivalents.

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  1. Facultad de Ingeniería en Sistemas, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Ladrón de Guevara, E11-253, P.O. Box 17-01-2759, Quito, Ecuador

    Edison Loza-Aguirre, Marco Segura Morales & Carlos Montenegro Armas

  2. CERAG FRE 3748, CNRS/UGA, 150, rue de la Chimie, BP 47, 38040, Grenoble Cedex 9, France

    Edison Loza-Aguirre

  3. Facultad de Ingeniería, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Av. 12 de Octubre 1076 y Vicente Ramón Roca, Quito, Ecuador

    Henry N. Roa

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  1. DEI/FCT, Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

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  2. Systems Department, Universidad Estatal Península de Santa Elena, La Libertad, Ecuador

    Teresa Guarda

Appendix: Coding Scheme

Appendix: Coding Scheme

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Table 2. Coding scheme for classifying articles according to their SD orientation. An article is coded within a SD dimension if its main subject is listed on the ‘Themes’ column. Since some articles deal with quite a few problems at the same time, an article could be coded in one or more dimensions.
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Loza-Aguirre, E., Morales, M.S., Roa, H.N., Armas, C.M. (2018). Unveiling Unbalance on Sustainable Supply Chain Research: Did We Forget Something?. In: Rocha, Á., Guarda, T. (eds) Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Technology & Systems (ICITS 2018). ICITS 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 721. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73450-7_26

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