Managing micro and small enterprise supply chains: A multi-level approach to sustainability, resilience and regional development

Silva, Minelle Enéas da; Silvestre, Bruno S.; Ponte, Roselene C. Del Vecchio; Cabral, José Ednilson Oliveira

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.127567

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“…In the context of the pandemic, the strategic rooting in strengthening the chains has been vital, from urgent preventive care for the health of society [11] to regional support, where it has brought about a double advantage for resilience. Moreover, it sustained regional development, and in turn, the strengthening of the link with regional suppliers contributed to the recovery of the chain in emerging contexts in Brazil [12].…”

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confidence: 95%

“…The consideration of resilience is usually with a short-term view, with an immediate reaction to incorporating efficiency. However, sustainable actions do not immediately affect the resilience and performance of the chain [14], so it is necessary to study resilience within the chain from a complex perspective [12]. One way of dealing with these confounding variables within the chain is the path taken by Soleimani et al [15], who propose a Genetic Algorithm to solve a fuzzy mathematical programming model for optimization purposes in the green supply chain.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Social Sustainability and Resilience in Supply Chains of Latin America on COVID-19 Times: Classification Using Evolutionary Fuzzy Knowledge

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The number of research papers interested in studying the social dimension of supply chain sustainability and resilience is increasing in the literature. However, the social dimension is complex, with several uncertainty variables that cannot be expressed with a traditional Boolean logic of totally true or false. To cope with uncertainty, Fuzzy Logic allows the development of models to obtain crisp values from the concept of fuzzy linguistic variables. Using the Structural Equation Model by Partial Least Squares (SEM-PLS) and Evolutionary Fuzzy Knowledge, this research aims to analyze the predictive power of social sustainability characteristics on supply chain resilience performance in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic with representative cases from Mexico and Chile. We validate our approach using the Chile database for training our model and the Mexico database for testing. The fuzzy knowledge database has a predictive power of more than 80%, using social sustainability features as inputs regarding supply chain resilience in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic disruption. To our knowledge, no works in the literature use fuzzy evolutionary knowledge to study social sustainability in correlation with resilience. Moreover, our proposed approach is the only one that does not require a priori expert knowledge or a systematic mathematical setup.

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Social Sustainability and Resilience in Supply Chains of Latin America on COVID-19 Times: Classification Using Evolutionary Fuzzy Knowledge

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“…Chain-integrated innovation is a form of collaborative innovation [61]. In addition to upstream enterprises and downstream enterprises that directly participate in the chainintegrated collaborative innovation, the government has played an important role in chainintegrated innovation [62][63][64][65]. While receiving the tax paid by enterprises for R&D income, the government also provides upstream and downstream enterprises with preferential policies for collaborative innovation and supervises the collaborative innovation process between enterprises [66].…”

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Chain Innovation Mechanism of the Manufacturing Industry in the Yangtze River Delta of China Based on Evolutionary Game

Zhao

2021

Sustainability

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It is of great theoretical and practical significance to achieve high-quality development that promotes the transformation of digestion, absorption, and re-innovation to an independent innovation model, actively participating in the restructuring of the industrial chain, and enhancing the status of the Yangtze River Delta in the global innovation chain. This study constructs a tripartite evolutionary game model of collaborative innovation led by the government, participated by upstream enterprises and downstream enterprises. Moreover, this article analyzes the strategic choices of the tripartite entities in the process of collaborative innovation, and the simulation analyzes the influencing factors of the government, upstream enterprises, and downstream enterprises’ collaborative innovation strategy selection. The results indicate that the government, upstream enterprises, and downstream enterprises have different degrees of influence on each other’s willingness to participate. In addition, the analysis proves that government policy support and financial support have different impacts on upstream enterprises and downstream enterprises.

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“…In the case of micro and small enterprises (MSEs), additional complexities arise compared to the supply chains of medium and large companies, mainly that are influenced by factors such as market structures, institutions, and the business environment. The design of resilient chains for MSEs must consider these complexities because these companies have important contributions in regional development due to their local character and history [14]. This fact has been magnified due to the pandemic of COVID-19 that has generated a great impact in supply chains both in magnitude (scale of the impact) and duration (length of the impact) [15].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Regarding sustainability, its economic dimension was first defined by the United Nations Brundtland Commission as the "development of the needs of the present without compromising the ability of the future generations to meet their own needs" [18] (p. 14). Since then, different theories have emerged for complementing the original concept of sustainability, e.g., the Triple Bottom Line (TBL) [19,20].…”

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Integrating Resilience and Sustainability Criteria in the Supply Chain Network Design. A Systematic Literature Review

López-Castro

Solano-Charris

2021

Sustainability

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Nowadays, Supply Chain Networks (SCNs) must respond to economic, environmental, social, and uncertain considerations. Thus, sustainable and resilience criteria need to be incorporated as key criteria into the Supply Chain Network Design (SCND). This paper, as part of an emerging subject, reviews the literature between 2010 and 2021 that integrates sustainability and resilience on the SCND. The article classifies the literature according to the levels of the SCND, levels of the decision-making (i.e., strategic, tactical, and operational), resilience and sustainability criteria, solving approach, objective criteria, contributions to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and real-world applications. The main findings allow us to conclude that the decisions regarding the supply chain network design with sustainability and resilience criteria are mainly strategic, focusing on the forward flow. Most works address resilience through the evaluation of scenarios (risk assessment perspective), and in terms of the sustainability perspective, authors mainly focus on the economic dimension through the evaluation of income and costs along the chain. Based on the review and the proposed taxonomy, the paper proposes ideas for future research.

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Managing micro and small enterprise supply chains: A multi-level approach to sustainability, resilience and regional development

Cited by 29 publications

References 86 publications

Social Sustainability and Resilience in Supply Chains of Latin America on COVID-19 Times: Classification Using Evolutionary Fuzzy Knowledge

Social Sustainability and Resilience in Supply Chains of Latin America on COVID-19 Times: Classification Using Evolutionary Fuzzy Knowledge

Chain Innovation Mechanism of the Manufacturing Industry in the Yangtze River Delta of China Based on Evolutionary Game

Integrating Resilience and Sustainability Criteria in the Supply Chain Network Design. A Systematic Literature Review

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