"Sustainability can create greater efficiency and cost savings in the supply chain. Supply chains, which are more complex and global than ever before, are full of both risks and opportunities. The risks range from inconsistent or poor quality to supply disruptions to health and safety concerns...

Reverse logistics networks are often implemented to ensure a sustainable product or material recovery and to improve a company's sustainability footprint. The most common approach for designing bi-directional networks is the independent design of reverse and forward networks. The joint...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore how intra-industry strategic alliances (SAs) seek to assess supplier risk related to sustainability, what motivation drives single members to form or join such an SA, and how such a joint endeavor affects supplier risk management....