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Jul 2026

ESG-Oriented Collaborative Governance and Sustainable Supply Chain Performance: Supply Chain Resilience as a Mediator

In the highly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) era, global supply chains face escalating exposure to external shocks ranging from geopolitical disruptions to public health crises. This study investigates how environmental, social, and governance (ESG)-driven multi-stakeholder collaborative governance influences sustainable supply chain performance under conditions of severe macro-level disruption. Adopting a qualitative single-case study methodology, we conduct an in-depth longitudinal analysis of BYD Company Limited, examining its operational dynamics across the critical period from 2019 to 2023. The findings reveal that collaborative governance does not directly generate measurable performance dividends; rather, supply chain resilience functions as a crucial mediating mechanism that translates governance efforts into tangible outcomes. By organically integrating governments, suppliers, and non-governmental organizations, core enterprises cultivate profound relational capital and achieve extreme informational transparency across the network. These foundational elements systematically enhance the supply network's proactive readiness, concurrent resistance, and rapid recovery capabilities through agile resource bricolage. Ultimately, this enhanced resilience drives holistic sustainable performance across the Triple Bottom Line, encompassing economic, environmental, and social dimensions. Theoretically, this research unlocks the operational black box linking ESG initiatives to long-term performance, effectively bridging Stakeholder Theory with operations management scholarship. Practically, it provides actionable insights for managers seeking to transition from zero-sum bargaining paradigms to symbiotic ecosystems, leveraging ESG metrics not merely as compliance costs but as strategic instruments to construct resilient networks capable of navigating extreme global uncertainties.

Yulu Sun · 0 citations
Review Open access Jul 2026

Enhancing Halal Supply Chain Resilience through Digital Traceability: A Multi-Stakeholder Perspective

The increasing complexity of global halal supply chains has created significant challenges in maintaining integrity, transparency, and resilience across interconnected stakeholders. Disruptions caused by technological limitations, information asymmetry, regulatory differences, and trust issues can threaten halal compliance and consumer confidence. This study aims to examine how digital traceability mechanisms contribute to enhancing halal supply chain resilience from a multi-stakeholder perspective. Using a qualitative conceptual approach based on an integrative literature review, this study synthesizes insights from halal supply chain management, digital transformation, organizational resilience, and industrial psychology. The findings indicate that digital traceability improves supply chain resilience through three key mechanisms: strengthening information transparency, increasing stakeholder trust, and facilitating collaborative decision-making. However, technological adoption alone is insufficient; successful implementation requires psychological readiness, organizational commitment, digital competency, and trust-based relationships among stakeholders. From an industrial psychology perspective, employee acceptance, perceived usefulness, organizational support, and cross-functional collaboration represent critical determinants influencing digital traceability effectiveness. This study contributes to the halal supply chain literature by integrating technological and behavioral perspectives, emphasizing that resilient halal ecosystems require alignment between digital infrastructure and human-centered organizational practices. The findings provide practical implications for halal industry managers, policymakers, and certification authorities in designing sustainable and adaptive halal supply chain systems.

Fajar Azhari Julian, Novianti Rachmayani, Abdul Rochim et al. · 0 citations
Open access Aug 2026

Role of digital supply chain capabilities in streamlining regionalization initiatives

This study examines how digital supply chain capabilities (IoT, blockchain, etc.) streamline firms' regionalization initiatives. The study adopts a rigorous qualitative, cross-industry research design. Forty semi-structured interviews were conducted with managers from 11 manufacturing firms (4 pharmaceuticals, 4 food and beverage and 3 electronics firms). Participating firms were in the initial-to-mid stage of regionalizing their supply chain operations. The cross-industry analysis reveals that the reported regionalization outcomes/benefits are enabled through digitally embedded information-processing and evidence-production routines rather than geographic proximity alone. The data analysis revealed six reported outcomes across three industries, including enhanced resilience (recoverability), stronger supplier ecosystem, ESG outcomes, quality compliance and switching flexibility, revenue protection and market access. The data also revealed mechanisms leading to these outcomes, including reduced data-to-decision latency, coordinated response routines, traceability and audit-ready documentation, digital quality governance, reusable qualification, data-driven communication, continuity signalling and structured exception/assurance communication, amongst others. This study develops theory from a qualitative sample of 40 interviews and is therefore not intended to produce statistically generalizable findings. In addition, because the participating firms were in the initial-to-mid stages of their regionalization initiatives, reported outcomes were still emerging rather than fully realized or measurable. The findings should therefore be interpreted as explaining the mechanisms through which digital supply chain capabilities support regionalization rather than as providing definitive evidence of long-term performance effects. Managers can use the identified mechanisms to design regionalization programmes around faster exception communication, reusable qualification evidence and audit-ready traceability routines. The results also guide industry-specific priorities such as compliance evidence cycles in pharmaceuticals, qualification/engineering information integration in electronics and information-enabled cold-chain control loops in food and beverage. Prior regionalization research mainly treats digitalization as technology adoption, offering limited process-level insight into how digital supply chain capabilities bolster regionalization. This study advances the literature by theorizing digital supply chain capability (DSSC) as a set of information-processing and evidence-production mechanisms that explain regionalization outcomes under varying regulatory intensity, technological specificity and perishability.

A. Butt · 0 citations
Review Open access Aug 2026

A Review and Outlook on Research into How Digital Transformation Enhances Supply Chain Resilience

Global industrial chains continue to face successive shocks from geopolitical conflicts, trade protectionism, and various unforeseen risks. Supply chain resilience is no longer confined to a management issue at the corporate operational level; it has risen to become a core strategic priority for national industrial security. The iterative implementation of digital technologies-such as the Internet of Things, big data, artificial intelligence, and blockchain-provides new analytical perspectives and practical pathways for building risk-resilient supply chain systems.This paper systematically traces the evolution of the concept of supply chain resilience, clarifying the logical progression of academic understanding from static post-disaster recovery to dynamic adaptation across the entire lifecycle. By integrating foundational theories such as dynamic capabilities, organizational information processing, and complex co-evolution, it identifies four mainstream pathways through which digital technologies empower supply chain resilience: information sharing, collaborative optimization, resource coordination, and risk prevention and control.At the same time, this paper dissects the underlying causes of the significant heterogeneity in the effects of digital empowerment from three dimensions: regional institutional environments, industrial network structures, and internal corporate characteristics. Although existing literature has accumulated a wealth of research findings, there remain research gaps, including insufficient analysis of the interaction among multiple mechanisms, a scarcity of dynamic time-series studies, weak empirical evidence regarding specific industry segments and network structures, and a lack of critical discussion on the potential risks of digitalization.Accordingly, future research could establish a dynamic, integrated analytical framework that synthesizes multiple theories to distinguish the differentiated empowerment pathways of various digital technologies; advance cross-industry, multi-tier network comparative empirical studies to refine standardized measurement systems and hybrid research paradigms; and dialectically examine the dual impacts of digital transformation, balancing its benefits with the risks it entails.

Yu-Ting You, Chu-Chu Sun · 0 citations
Review Open access Aug 2026

Decarbonization and Sustainable Supply Chains: A Systematic Review of Supplier Engagement, Digital Traceability, and Carbon Governance

Decarbonizing supply chains is becoming a coordinated effort for managing emissions beyond organisations' boundaries. This systematic literature review is aimed at analysing the role supplier engagement, digital traceability and carbon governance play in sustainable supply-chain decarbonization. The 25 peer-reviewed journal articles included in this study were selected and analysed based on the PRISMA 2020 guidelines as used in Scopus and Web of Science from 2015 to 2026 using descriptive analysis and thematic synthesis. The results suggested that supplier collaboration, supplier development, carbon targets, incentives and knowledge sharing increased supplier involvement in emissions reduction. Digital traceability and technologies, such as blockchain, artificial intelligence, IoT, big data analytics and digital twins, improved carbon measurement, transparency and data sharing. Carbon governance enhanced accountability via reporting, standards, monitoring, disclosure and compliance mechanisms. However, financial costs, data-quality limitations, interoperability, supplier resistance, digital capability gaps, and regulatory differences constrained implementation. The review suggests a comprehensive solution that brings together supplier relations, electronic traceability and carbon management with emissions reductions and sustainable supply-chain decarbonization. References Ahmed, S., Zaidi, S. S. Z., & Zohaib, S. (2026). Maritime transport transformation and supply chain disruptions: A systematic literature review of challenges and carbon emission reduction strategies. Journal of Business and Management Research, 5(1), 69–87. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18618204 Ahmed, S., Zaidi, S. S. Z., Zohaib, S., & Imran, M. (2026). 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I. Raisani, Kamran Khan, Ifrah Khalid Ghauri et al. · 0 citations
Review Open access Aug 2026

Advanced Supply Chain Management: An Integrative Review of Strategic Operations, Risk Resilience, and Sustainability

Supply chain management (SCM) has evolved from a tactical logistics function to a strategic imperative for organizational competitiveness. This review paper synthesizes contemporary literature to examine the architecture of advanced supply chain management, focusing on the integration of sourcing, procurement, operations, and distribution. The paper first delineates the conceptual foundations of SCM and the multidimensional flows—physical, informational, financial, and reverse—that coordinate value creation across the network. It then evaluates procurement operations, strategic sourcing frameworks, and inventory optimization techniques. A critical analysis of supply chain risk identification, assessment, and mitigation follows, emphasizing resilience engineering and collaborative governance. Finally, the review addresses the dual imperatives of ethical stewardship and environmental sustainability, arguing that transparency, circular economy practices, and multi-stakeholder collaboration are essential for long-term value creation. The paper concludes that future supply chain excellence depends on balancing operational efficiency with adaptive resilience and responsible governance.

Adebowale A. Adedokun · 0 citations