Collaborative closed-loop supply chain framework for sustainable manufacturing: Evidence from the Indian packaging industry
Journal article
Authors | Ramanathan, U., He, Q., Subramanian, N., Gunasekaran, A. and Sarpong, D. |
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Abstract | Businesses reeling from the impact of COVID are struggling to achieve sustainability, amidst many other challenges, including finance and capacity shortfalls. One of the pathways to achieving 3BL in businesses is to create closed-loop supply chains (CLSC) covering the entire lifecycle of products. CLSC have proven to be important for sustainable supply chain (SC) operations, given the shortage of materials and labour globally following the COVID-19 pandemic. While it is widely acknowledged that the success of CLSC depends on successful collaboration between SC members, factors for successful CLSC collaboration are not sufficiently understood from the literature. Employing an observation-based case study and a survey of SC members, we develop our contribution in the context of an Indian packaging company, to delineate and verify a collaborative CLSC framework. The results confirm that the success of CLSC collaboration lies in the involvement and commitment of SC members. Collaboration for forward and reverse SC operations also facilitate the involvement of SC members in CLSC collaborations. Our research suggests that SC collaborations are enhanced by explicit incentive-sharing schemes and having the same SC members for both forward and reverse SC operations. |
Keywords | Closed-loop supply chain; sustainable manufacturing, ; collaboration; Covid-19; product returns |
Year | 2023 |
Journal | Technological Forecasting and Social Change |
Journal citation | 191, pp. 1-13 |
Publisher | Elseiver |
ISSN | 1873-5509 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2023.122489 |
Web address (URL) | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0040162523001749?via%3Dihub |
Accepted author manuscript | License File Access Level Open |
Publisher's version | File Access Level Open |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
Online | 23 Mar 2023 |
Publication process dates | |
Accepted | 08 Mar 2023 |
Deposited | 03 Apr 2023 |
https://repository.derby.ac.uk/item/9xxy7/collaborative-closed-loop-supply-chain-framework-for-sustainable-manufacturing-evidence-from-the-indian-packaging-industry
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