Current corporations are subject to stringent requirements in terms of sustainable development; however, a relevant problem is highlighted on the basis of the studies conducted. On the one hand, corporations experience greater or lesser pressure, while on the other hand, it must be admitted that the problem of demand for professionals, which is presupposed by the insufficient quality of training in higher education institutions, is important. This is somewhat strange given that the issues of business ethics, corporate social responsibility, and sustainability have attracted increased attention in management education in recent years, and a five-fold increase in the number of stand-alone ethics courses has been noted since 1988. This interaction could contribute to the development of CSR, however a certain dissonance of cooperation between higher education and business exists, as there is a lack of leadership in this area in the study programs of business administration approved by the states, as well as in higher education institutions. Given these facts, the goal of the paper is to analyze the Master of Business Administration programs in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia to offer direction to the challenge of integrating corporate social responsibility (CSR) into management and training. The method of analysis of professional business and administration training program content in terms of the integration of CSR was used during the survey. Using panel data of 28 full-time MBA programs, our findings show that that the core parts of MBAs under analysis merely-and mostly indirectly-cover CSR issues through one core course on business ethics. However, the leading MBA programs are currently missing an opportunity by ignoring their responsibility to support the training of CSR-minded future business administration professionals. The results of our research may act as a guide to which areas should be modified and/or changed.

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The main aim of the paper is to review literature on supply chain challenges and key success factors for SMEs and to draw the theoretical linkage between the two phenomena. The narrative literature review is undertaken as a method of the research. The paper starts from the literature review on supply chain challenges which is followed by the analysis of key success factors of supply chains and SMEs. The findings reveal that SMEs are still locked in their own performance limitations and coping with their own success thus can hardly support the success of supply chain; however, solving their own success problems SMEs can become a valuable and supportive partner in the pursuit of success of the whole supply chain. Keywords: supply chain, challenges, key success factors, small and medium size enterprises (SME).Straipsnio pagrindinis tikslas yra atlikti tiekimo grandinės iššūkių ir mažų bei vidutinių įmonių kritinių sė-kmės veiksnių literatūros analizę, ir nustatyti teorinius ryšius tarp šių dviejų fenomenų. Tyrimui naudotas teorinės literatūros analizės metodas. Pradžioje nagrinėjami tiekimo grandinės iššūkiai, o vėliau -mažų ir vidutinių įmonių kritiniai sėkmės veiksniai. Tyrimo rezultatai atskleidžia, kad mažų ir vidutinių įmonių veiklos rezultatyvumas, galintis tenkinti tiekimo grandinės keliamus reikalavimus ir iššūkius, yra ribotas. Norėdamos tapti tiekimo grandinės sėkmės bendraautorėmis, jos pirmiausia turi spręsti savo pačių vidinės sėkmės užda-vinius. Raktiniai žodžiai: tiekimo grandinė, iššūkiai, pagrindiniai sėkmės veiksniai, mažos ir vidutinės įmonės (MVĮ).

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