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Global Sustainable Supplier Selection: A Literature Review

Global Sustainable Supplier Selection: A Literature Review
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Author(s): Anjali Awasthi (Concordia University, Canada)and Stefan Gold (Universität Kassel, Germany)
Copyright: 2020
Pages: 31
Source title: Handbook of Research on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Decision Making for Sustainable Supply Chains
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Anjali Awasthi (Concordia University, Canada)and Katarzyna Grzybowska (Poznan University of Technology, Poland)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-9570-0.ch001

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Abstract

Supplier selection is critical for sustainability management in global supply chains. In this chapter, the authors present a content analysis based literature review for global sustainable supplier selection. The supplier selection is investigated along four dimensions, namely economic, environmental, social, and global. The results of the study yield that environmental and social criteria are often used together for supplier selection whereas global risk criteria are rarely used, even less as we move along multiple tiers of the supply chain. From the review, the authors also identified the top criteria along these four dimensions for global sustainable supplier selection. Along the economic dimension, the top three criteria are quality, cost, and general supplier characteristics. The social dimension has employees, transparency and engagement, and local communities' influence as the top criteria. Along the environmental dimension, the top criteria are pollution and hazardous emissions, standards and management systems, green product and design, and green competencies and processes. The top criteria along the global dimension are distance, other risks, and politics and economy.

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