Investigating Sustainable Management of the Supply Chain and its Effect on the Sustainable Performance of the Supply Chain with the Grounded Theory Approach

Subject Areas : Management and Sustanable Development

Alireza Shishehbori ¹

1 - Ph.D. in Executive Management, University of Industrial Management Organization, Yazd, Iran.

Received: 2023-03-15 Accepted : 2023-06-08 Published : 2023-05-22

Keywords: Supply Chain, Resilient Supply Chain, Resilient Management, Sustainable Supply Chain Performance,

Abstract :

Effective supply chain management has become an approach to ensure competitive advantage and improve organizational performance; Because there is no more competition between organizations, but competition between their supply chains. In the current research, the resilient management of the supply chain and its effect on the sustainable performance of the supply chain have been investigated. In terms of the purpose, the current research is one of the applied studies that was conducted with a qualitative method and with an exploratory purpose, and finally, the results were obtained using the Grounded Theory Approach. In this research, a systematic literature review method was used to identify resilient supply chain measures and sustainable performance criteria based on the subject literature were extracted. Also, a model that shows the relationships of resilient supply chain management and how it affects sustainable performance is presented. The results indicate that sensitivity to the market and its changes leads to moving towards resilience to deal with vulnerability. Of course, factors such as process control, quality improvement, as well as the existence of a suitable purchasing and procurement system, management of relationships with suppliers, the existence of a suitable transportation system and the existence of technology and information technology are considered to be other effective factors that human resources measure in the implementation of these Factors play an important role. By achieving resilience through these measures, social, environmental and economic sustainability is achieved, which leads to a competitive advantage.

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