TY - JOUR
T1 - Multi-dimensional circular supply chain management
T2 - A comparative review of the state-of-the-art practices and research
AU - Zhang, Abraham
AU - Wang, Jason X.
AU - Farooque, Muhammad
AU - Wang, Yulan
AU - Choi, Tsan Ming
N1 - Funding Information:
Dr Abraham Zhang acknowledges partial funding support from the 2020 Endeavour Fund, Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment of New Zealand (Project title: Āmiomio Aotearoa - A Circular Economy for the Wellbeing of New Zealand). Dr Yulan Wang acknowledges the funding support from the Departmental General Research Fund of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (project ID P0008761).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2021/11
Y1 - 2021/11
N2 - The circular economy (CE) concept has gained wide attention in practice as well as in academia in recent years. This paper reviews the state-of-the-art practices and research in “circular supply chain management” (CSCM), i.e., the integration of CE thinking into supply chain management (SCM) with the goal of achieving “zero wastes”. The review covers 68 real-life CE implementation cases collected by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and 124 publications in well-established, high-ranking academic journals in operations and supply chain management. The comparative review shows that CSCM encompasses multiple dimensions, including closed-loop SCM, reverse SCM, remanufacturing SCM, recycling SCM, and industrial symbiosis. A multi-dimensional CSCM (MD-CSCM) framework is developed to synthesize their interrelationships and to categorize academic publications into multiple research themes. Based on the identified research-practice gaps and pressing research needs, this study discusses important directions for future studies to advance supply chain circularity.
AB - The circular economy (CE) concept has gained wide attention in practice as well as in academia in recent years. This paper reviews the state-of-the-art practices and research in “circular supply chain management” (CSCM), i.e., the integration of CE thinking into supply chain management (SCM) with the goal of achieving “zero wastes”. The review covers 68 real-life CE implementation cases collected by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and 124 publications in well-established, high-ranking academic journals in operations and supply chain management. The comparative review shows that CSCM encompasses multiple dimensions, including closed-loop SCM, reverse SCM, remanufacturing SCM, recycling SCM, and industrial symbiosis. A multi-dimensional CSCM (MD-CSCM) framework is developed to synthesize their interrelationships and to categorize academic publications into multiple research themes. Based on the identified research-practice gaps and pressing research needs, this study discusses important directions for future studies to advance supply chain circularity.
KW - Circular economy
KW - Circular supply chain management
KW - Closed-loop supply chain management
KW - Green supply chain management
KW - Sustainable supply chain management
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U2 - 10.1016/j.tre.2021.102509
DO - 10.1016/j.tre.2021.102509
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85117101145
SN - 1366-5545
VL - 155
JO - Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review
JF - Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review
M1 - 102509
ER -
