Sustainable supply chain management and theory: taking stock and looking ahead

Marques, Leonardo, Touboulic, Anne and Walker, Helen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0892-9231 2022. Sustainable supply chain management and theory: taking stock and looking ahead. Childe, Stephen and Soares, Anabela, eds. Handbook of Research Methods for Supply Chain Management, Handbooks of Research Methods in Management series, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, pp. 339-351. (10.4337/9781788975865.00027)

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Abstract

Sustainable Supply Chain Management (SSCM) scholars are constantly pressured to demonstrate the theoretical value of their work. In response, academic work often produces a superficial dialogue with theory and most papers are actually atheoretical even when trying to sustain they are not. It is crucial to move away from this strange relationship to theory and reconnect with theorising as a craft within the discipline. In this chapter, we propose a categorisation of theorising efforts, which we use to review the SSCM literature between 2014 to 2016 and contrast this period with our previous work that covered mid-1990s until 2013. We show that despite advancements both in the share of theoretically informed papers and in the breadth of theories, the field is still excessively based on theory borrowing and thus we still lack a robust and original theoretical framing to SSCM. We offer some reflections on how to address this problem.

Item Type:	Book Section
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > Business (Including Economics)
Publisher:	Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN:	978-1035338948
Funders:	None
Last Modified:	03 Jul 2025 15:00
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/179090

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