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Paul, S.K., Ali, S.M. and Moktadir, M.A. (2020), "Guest editorial", Modern Supply Chain Research and Applications, Vol. 2 No. 3, pp. 115-116. https://doi.org/10.1108/MSCRA-08-2020-024
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Copyright © 2020, Sanjoy Kumar Paul, Syed Mithun Ali and Md. Abdul Moktadir
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Editorial for the special issue on “managing sustainability, resilience, and circular economy in supply chains”
Managing sustainability, resilience and circular economy are the key research issues in global business trends. Global business is now more competitive, and business organizations need to consider sustainability practices to improve supply chain activities (Moktadir et al., 2018a). Maintaining sustainability in supply chains imperative to achieve economic, social, environmental and operational sustainability (Chowdhury and Paul, 2020; Munny et al., 2019; Suhi et al., 2019). Likewise, supply chain resilience is the key business performance indicator that can help to achieve the sustainability of the business organization in the competitive market (Moktadir et al., 2018b). Finally, the circular economy is the concept of an industrial economy, in which greater resource productivity is promoted by developing ways to continually re-acquire and reintroduce discarded assets after the completion of one life cycle. The concept of supply chain resiliency, sustainability and circular economy becomes more imperative in the wake of the recent coronavirus pandemic, known as the COVID-19 (Ivanov, 2020; Paul and Chowdhury, 2020a, 2020b; Sarkis et al., 2020; Taqi et al., 2020).
This special issue aims to advance the knowledge on sustainability, resilience and the circular economy in supply chains and to expand its knowledge in new dimensions. In this special issue, we have published five papers. These papers contribute to the knowledge and explore new dimensions of sustainability, resilience and the circular economy.
The first article was a viewpoint, which addressed the prioritization and focus of supply chain managers in the area of resiliency and sustainability in the wake of COVID-19 (de Sousa Jabbour et al., 2020). The second article was a systematic literature review on the carbon footprint for a sustainable supply chain (Ghosh et al., 2020). The third article explored how to enhance supply resiliency to manage the impacts of COVID-19 in the context of the small retailing sector (Chowdhury et al., 2020). The fourth article developed a meta-heuristic algorithm to design a sustainable supply chain network in the context of the agro-food sector (Dwivedi et al., 2020). The fifth article developed a model to determine the performance indicators in the context of the resilient pharmaceutical supply chain (Karmaker and Ahmed, 2020).
References
Chowdhury, P. and Paul, S.K. (2020), “Applications of MCDM methods in research on corporate sustainability: a systematic literature review”, Management of Environmental Quality, Vol. 31, pp. 385-405, doi: 10.1108/MEQ-12-2019-0284.
Chowdhury, M.T., Sarkar, A., Paul, S.K. and Moktadir, M.A. (2020), “A case study on strategies to deal with the impacts of COVID-19 pandemic in the food and beverage industry”, Operations Management Research. doi: 10.1007/s12063-020-00166-9.
de Sousa Jabbour, A.B.L., Jabbour, C.J.C., Hingley, M., Vilalta-Perdomo, E.L., Ramsden, G. and Twigg, D. (2020), “Sustainability of supply chains in the wake of the coronavirus (COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2) pandemic: lessons and trends”, Modern Supply Chain Research and Applications. doi: 10.1108/MSCRA-05-2020-0011.
Dwivedi, A., Jha, A., Prajapati, D., Sreenu, N. and Pratap, S. (2020), “Meta-heuristic algorithms for solving the sustainable agro-food grain supply chain network design problem”, Modern Supply Chain Research and Applications. doi: 10.1108/MSCRA-04-2020-0007.
Ghosh, P., Jha, A. and Sharma, R. (2020), “Managing carbon footprint for a sustainable supply chain: a systematic literature review”, Modern Supply Chain Research and Applications. doi: 10.1108/MSCRA-06-2020-0016.
Ivanov, D. (2020), “Predicting the impacts of epidemic outbreaks on global supply chains: a simulation-based analysis on the coronavirus outbreak (COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2) case”, Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Vol. 136, p. 101922, doi: 10.1016/j.tre.2020.101922.
Karmaker, C. and Ahmed, T. (2020), “Modeling performance indicators of resilient pharmaceutical supply chain”, Modern Supply Chain Research and Applications, In press.
Moktadir, M.A., Ali, S.M., Rajesh, R. and Paul, S.K. (2018a), “Modeling the interrelationships among barriers to sustainable supply chain management in leather industry”, Journal of Cleaner Production, Vol. 181, pp. 631-651, doi: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.01.245.
Moktadir, M.A., Rahman, T., Rahman, M.H., Ali, S.M. and Paul, S.K. (2018b), “Drivers to sustainable manufacturing practices and circular economy: a perspective of leather industries in Bangladesh”, Journal of Cleaner Production, Vol. 174, pp. 1366-1380, doi: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.11.063.
Munny, A.A., Ali, S.M., Kabir, G., Moktadir, M.A., Rahman, T. and Mahtab, Z. (2019), “Enablers of social sustainability in the supply chain: an example of footwear industry from an emerging economy”, Sustainable Production and Consumption, Vol. 20, pp. 230-242, doi: 10.1016/j.spc.2019.07.003.
Paul, S.K. and Chowdhury, P. (2020a), “Strategies for managing the impacts of disruptions during COVID-19: an example of toilet paper”, Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management, Vol. 21 No. 3, pp. 283-293, doi: 10.1007/s40171-020-00248-4.
Paul, S.K. and Chowdhury, P. (2020b), “A production recovery plan in manufacturing supply chains for a high-demand item during COVID-19”, International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management. doi: 10.1108/IJPDLM-04-2020-0127.
Sarkis, J., Cohen, M.J., Dewick, P. and Schröder, P. (2020), “A brave new world: lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic for transitioning to sustainable supply and production”, Resources, Conservation and Recycling, Vol. 159, p. 104894, doi: 10.1016/j.resconrec.2020.104894.
Suhi, S.A., Enayet, R., Haque, T., Ali, S.M., Moktadir, M.A. and Paul, S.K. (2019), “Environmental sustainability assessment in supply chain: an emerging economy context”, Environmental Impact Assessment Review, Vol. 79, p. 106306, doi: 10.1016/j.eiar.2019.106306.
Taqi, H.M., Ahmed, H.N., Paul, S., Garshasbi, M., Ali, S.M., Kabir, G. and Paul, S.K. (2020), “Strategies to manage the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in the supply chain: implications for improving economic and social sustainability”, Sustainability, Vol. 12 No. 22, p. 9483, doi: 10.3390/su12229483.