Chapter 15: Sustainable supply chain design
Mohsen Varsei
Category:
Handbook Chapter
Published:
29 Mar 2019
Page Range:
242–260
Collection:
Business 2019
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781786434272.00019
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Many businesses around the world are increasingly being forced by multiple stakeholders to mitigate the negative environmental and social impacts of their supply chains. Using some recent studies in the literature, this chapter elaborates a multidimensional framework for sustainable supply chain design. The chapter proposes the following definition for sustainable supply chain design: a configuration of the supply chain of a company which maximizes the long-term economic performance of the company while minimizing the negative environmental and social impacts of its supply chain.

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Cover Handbook on the Sustainable Supply Chain
Handbook on the Sustainable Supply Chain
Edited by
Joseph Sarkis
Handbook
Published:
29 Mar 2019
Print ISBN:
9781786434265
eISBN:
9781786434272
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781786434272
Pages:
c 616
Collection:
Business 2019
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