Procurement strategy -- Introduction: the strategic role of procurement -- Procurement and the organization: organizing for the future -- The strategic procurement cycle -- Procurement and the supply network -- Supplier relationship management -- Global sourcing -- Delivering performance in...

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This paper investigates the influence of sustainable business development on manufacturing plant operations. Among the three pillars of sustainability consisting of environmental, social and economic longevity and foresight of a firm, we focus on the environmental component. Specifically, basing...

This paper facilitates an in-depth view of the transformation needed for the transition from traditional to sustainable supply chain management (SSCM)—by delineating its elemental aspects. Taking an organizational unit of analysis perspective, this conceptual review seeks to characterize the...