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A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Management".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (5 May 2023) | Viewed by 8653

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Business School, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China
Interests: sustainable development; supply chain management; environmental sustainability; enterprise operation management; big data optimization; sports industry management and economics

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Dear Colleagues,

As natural resources and environmental capacity worldwide are approaching a critical point, national requirements for the green production of enterprises have been uplifted. In 2019, China released the "Green Industry Guidance Catalogue", which put forward corresponding requirements in the six modules of ecological environment, clean energy, energy conservation and environmental protection, cleaner production, green upgrade of infrastructure, and green services. Carbon peaking and carbon neutrality in 2021 were written into the government work report for the first time. China strives to achieve carbon peaking by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060. This further enhances the importance of green supply chain management.

At the same time, challenges and opportunities for the green development of global supply chains coexist. On the one hand, the rapid development of supply chain digitization and informatization provides a new paradigm and path for green supply chain management. On the other hand, the trend of anti-globalization and trade protectionism has brought uncertainty to the greening of the global supply chain. The lack of incentives for collaborative innovation among enterprises and the obstruction of information sharing have also seriously affected the development of green supply chain management.

This Special Issue aims to study how to promote the formation of a new green supply chain management model of cross-organization, cross-time and cross-space green cooperation, and to explore the impacts of actions taken by the government, enterprises, consumers and other subjects. Relevant areas include, but are not limited to, the following:

Advanced theoretical framework of green supply chain management under the new situation;
Inspiration of advanced technology to green supply chain management mode;
Green collaborative innovation;
Social impact of supply chain management and green supply chain management;
Deep-level influencing factors of green supply chain management.

Dr. Zhi Li
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collaborative innovation
sustainability frameworks
advanced technology
green supply chain decision
risk control
analysis of Influencing Factors
management efficiency assessment

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Low-Carbon Manufacturing or Not? Equilibrium Decisions for Capital-Constrained News Vendors with Subsidy and Carbon Tax

by Yanyan Zheng, Jin Zhang, Mengyuan Wang, Peng Liu and Tong Shu

Sustainability 2023, 15(15), 11779; https://doi.org/10.3390/su151511779 - 31 Jul 2023

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At a time when low-carbon life has become an important global issue, the decarbonization of manufacturing enterprises cannot be delayed in the face of the government’s green policy and other objective conditions. Under these circumstances, how to arrange the production plan before and after the implication of low-carbon policies is an urgent issue to be settled, especially for the capital-constrained news vendors. To address these problems, this paper firstly builds a stylized supply chain model consisting of two different types of manufacturers (i.e., low-carbon type and traditional type) with capital constraints, then obtains equilibrium production and business strategies resorting to Stackelberg game theory, and lastly conducts an analysis of how the key factors affect manufacturers’ green transition decisions under different scenarios of carbon policy. With the study’s structure, some interesting and important results and managerial insights are derived. For example, but not limited to, it is found that: (i) compared with traditional products, the price fluctuation of low-carbon products is greater than that of traditional products with the increase in consumers’ low-carbon awareness. And consumers have more tolerance for price increases for low-carbon products. (ii) When producing low-carbon products is cost-effective, it is a wise choice to produce more low-carbon products. When producing low-carbon items is costly, producing more low-carbon products is still a dominant strategy until the expenditure difference between low-carbon and traditional ones exceeds a certain threshold. (iii) When the expenditure on low-carbon production is moderate, the manufacturer first prefers the traditional strategy, then the low-carbon one, with an increase in consumers’ low-carbon awareness. When the expenditure on low-carbon production stays at a low or high level, the low-carbon strategy always dominates the traditional one with a certain condition satisfied. This study can enrich the theory of green supply chain management and provide decision support for enterprise managers in the green transition. Full article

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Hybrid Optimization of Green Supply Chain Network and Scheduling in Distributed 3D Printing Intelligent Factory

by Yuran Jin and Cheng Gao

Sustainability 2023, 15(7), 5948; https://doi.org/10.3390/su15075948 - 29 Mar 2023

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Considering the advantages of 3D printing, intelligent factories and distributed manufacturing, the 3D printing distributed intelligent factory has begun to rise in recent years. However, because the supply chain network of this kind of factory is very complex, coupled with the impact of customized scheduling and environmental constraints on the enterprise, the 3D printing distributed intelligent factory is facing the great challenge of realizing green supply chain networks and optimizing production scheduling at the same time, and thus a theoretical gap appears. This paper studies the hybrid optimization of green supply chain networks and scheduling of the distributed 3D printing intelligent factory. Firstly, according to the green supply chain network architecture of the distributed 3D printing intelligent factory, the cost minimization model is constructed. Secondly, mathematical software is used to solve the model, and the scheduling plan can be worked out. Finally, through the simulation analysis, it is concluded that the influencing factors such as demand, factory size and production capacity complicate the production distribution, and it can be observed that the carbon emission cost has gradually become the main factor affecting the total cost. The study has a reference value for the management decision making of the distributed 3D printing intelligent factory under the background of carbon emissions. Full article

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Guarantee Stability of Supply Chain with Dual Channels under Supply Failure of Goods

by Lihua Hu and Tao Fan

Sustainability 2023, 15(7), 5890; https://doi.org/10.3390/su15075890 - 28 Mar 2023

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The supply chain is an extremely important and complex system, which is widely related to the social system and the management system. The hierarchical scheduling and production planning of a dynamic supply chain can enable enterprises in the supply chain to obtain, and maintain, stable and lasting competitive advantages; thus, improving the overall competitiveness of the supply chain. Simultaneously, research on supply chains is also a hotspot in system engineering. At present, research on complex supply chain systems with dual channels is insufficient, and analysis of dynamic supply chains with supply failure of goods is rare. In the epidemic era, dynamic supply chain management was affected by the epidemic and became a very challenging topic. The control of the supply chain system under the impact of an epidemic situation is particularly important. This paper focused on

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the fault-tolerant control of a complex supply chain system with dual channels. First, from the perspective of engineering practice and green production, we established a new green supply chain model. This supply chain model includes the dual-channel supply of goods and also considers the supply failure of goods. At the same time, production delay and supply delay are also considered in this model. Second, a supply scheduling scheme was designed through cybernetics to ensure the stability of a supply chain with dual channels under supply failure of goods, and we completed supply chain management. Finally, the effectiveness of our results was verified by specific Chinese enterprise data. Full article

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How the Internet Affects China’s Green Consumption Development: Empirical Research Based on Baidu Index Data

by Jinyan Peng, Kai Li and Yingpeng Gao

Sustainability 2023, 15(1), 50; https://doi.org/10.3390/su15010050 - 20 Dec 2022

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Green consumption falls short in China’s overall green economic and social transformation. There is a consensus to activate the potential of green consumption through the Internet. However, limited by the availability of green consumption data, few empirical studies focus on the impact of the Internet on green consumption. Based on the 2016–2020 Baidu Index of green consumption in 31 provinces and cities in China, this paper uses a fixed effect model with Driscoll-Kraay standard errors to assess the impact of the Internet on China’s green consumption development and its impact mechanism. The results showed that improved Internet access capability and the development of the e-government play a significant role in promoting green consumption. The former helps to reduce the cost of consumers’ information acquisition, while the latter helps to strengthen market supervision and improve the market environment. E-commerce has a significant negative impact on the development of green consumption, mainly because the existing e-commerce model is not conducive to the development of consumer trust. The impact of digital payment is not significant. Therefore, to achieve multi-governance and improve the Internet by activating green consumption, government departments need to promote the innovation of marketing models and strengthen the platform’s supervision. Full article

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Farmers’ Credit Risk Assessment Based on Sustainable Supply Chain Finance for Green Agriculture

by Yuehua Xia, Honggen Long, Zhi Li and Jiasen Wang

Sustainability 2022, 14(19), 12836; https://doi.org/10.3390/su141912836 - 08 Oct 2022

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With the development of green agriculture, the demand of farmers for operation loans is increasing. Supply chain finance is becoming a new way to solve the problem of difficult credit in agricultural development. As the importance of sustainability issues continues to rise, there are growing numbers of practical examples of combining agricultural supply chain finance (ASCF) with sustainability, and the attendant risks are emerging. The objectives of this study are first to construct a risk indicator system for sustainable ASCF, then to propose a fuzzy decision method that considers the confidence of decision-makers, and finally to perform a risk assessment of a credit case in the coffee bean supply chain. A combination of the neutrosophic enhanced best–worst method (NE-BWM) and combined compromise solution (COCOSO) is used to evaluate risk problems. The practicality and effectiveness of this research method is verified by a numerical simulation and a comparison with the method. The results show that the credit rating of core companies is the most important indicator. In the context of green and sustainable development, this indicator system is more suitable for the current green transformation development of agriculture and can help decision-makers scientifically and reasonably assess the risk level of ASCF. When loans are needed to transform green agriculture, this study provides new ideas for credit models for various actors in the agricultural supply chain and offers a new entry point to the issue of sustainable agricultural development. Full article

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Decision Models for a Dual-Recycling Channel Reverse Supply Chain with Consumer Strategic Behavior

by Bo Wang and Ning Wang

Sustainability 2022, 14(17), 10870; https://doi.org/10.3390/su141710870 - 31 Aug 2022

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In this paper, waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) is collected both with online and traditional methods in a reverse channel. We obtain a quantity for recycling based on online popularity and reference price by considering their impact on consumer recycling behaviors. On this basis, we build a Stackelberg game model in which the recycling dealer acts as the leader and the recycler acts as the follower in a reverse supply chain. We explore a combination contract comprising a revenue cost-sharing contract and a two-part tariff contract to enhance the performance of the reverse supply chain with a dual channel. The conclusion shows that the reference price degree can alleviate the recycling channel’s conflict in order to improve the operation efficiency of the reverse supply chain. The well-designed coordination mechanism enables the perfect coordination of the entire supply chain system. Full article

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