Managing sustainable practices has received increasing attention in the field of supply chain management to tackle environmental, financial and social issues in an integrated way. However, extant research still lacks a systemic framework explaining how sustainable practices can support individual companies to promote orchestration, collaboration, and coordination in the entire supply chain. This paper aims to provide a systemic framework including a taxonomy of sustainable development practices supporting individual firms in managing supply chain relationships. The proposed framework seeks to connect the supply chain practices and the technological systems that support them. Specifically, the findings highlight the relationship between technology capabilities and supply chain practices, focusing on the benefits their interaction brings to the complex dyadic relationships of supply networks. Finally, this study outlines promising future research directions for scholars and practitioners operating in the field of sustainable supply chain design and supply chain relationship management.

Purpose: This paper presents an investigation into the ways the term “practice” is commonly referenced in supply chain management academic papers. Scholars have not yet developed a common understanding of the meaning and do not use practice theories when examining practices related to sustainability management in supply chains. Hence, the authors highlight theoretical gaps and make recommendations for future research.Design/methodology/approach: Grounded in a systematic literature review of 232 peer-reviewed papers published in operations and supply chain management journals, a qualitative content analysis was conducted using both a deductive and an inductive approach.Findings: Results show that supply chain sustainability (SCS) scholars seem barely interested in increasing the understanding of the term “practice,” widely used in the literature to refer to a practical context. Moreover, a clear distinction between being practical and using practice theories to study SCS practices is needed. A descriptive and critical analysis revealed eight key supply chain practices connected to sustainability, with a clear reflection on their meaning. As awareness of practice theories for research on SCS is limited, few recommendations for researchers and practitioners were identified.Originality/value: Unlike prior literature reviews, the authors reinforce the need to increase the maturity of the SCS field by going beyond superficial theoretical building. Practice theories pathways are provided to enlighten scholars on how to avoid using the term “practice” as taken-for-granted and on how to deal with SCS research and practice.

The conceptes of human resource management practices, organisational culture, knowledge management,organisational innovation, and organisational performance in the human resource management research fieldhave been implemented. Although the results of literature were significant, no studies were released in order toconduct a study about the function of human resource management practices in intensifying the organisationalperformance with interfering organisational culture, knowledge management, and organisational innovation.The purpose of this study is to narrow this gap in the research. The study, moreover, attempts to investigate theconnections amid organisational culture, knowledge management, and organisational innovation.The researchutilizes causality models and suggests a conceptual schema subsequent to a comprehensive analysis of theliterature linked to human resource management field. A sample of 203 human resource directors working inlarge organisations in the Eastern Region of Saudi Arabia is used. The confirmatory factor analysis [CFA] andSEM are used to analyze and approve the proposal of the conceptual schema. The study illustrates that human resource management practices is an important ancestor of organisationalculture, knowledge management, and organisational innovation, which have in turn a positive link toorganisational performance. The research attempts to draw concentration to some of the elements, playing thefunction of arbitrator amid human resource management practices and organisational performance. The study isunique because it is initially conducted to urge the impacts of some important related patterns such as humanresource management practices, organisational culture, knowledge management and organisational innovation,and organisational performance. Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE AR-SA

Purpose: The study investigates the role of institutional pressures and environmental orientation in implementing green supply chain practices (GSCPs) in firms. The aim is to construct a comprehensive model based on institutional theory (InT) and resource-based view (RBV) that will help study the effect of GSCPs on performance-based outcomes of industrial firms. Study Design: The study adopted a cross-sectional design, and data were collected from 351 supply chain management professionals from different manufacturing companies in Saudi Arabia. Furthermore, a questionnaire was structured to collect data, and the hypothesis of the study was tested using the PLS-SEM modeling. Findings: The study findings showed a significant effect of institutional pressure on GSCPs. Also, another significant impact of environmental orientation on GSCPs was noted. Lastly, GSCPs of manufacturing companies have a significantly positive effect on economic and ecological performances. Originality: This paper is one of the first to include institutional theory, the resource-based view, institutional pressures, environmental orientation, GSCPs, and company performances outcomes. Also, the paper provides details about performance outcomes by scattering Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM) practices and gives direction to managers for the successful implementation of these practices.

Purpose: Nowadays, a prominent research area is the development of competitive advantages in companies, due to their environmental commitment and orientation. Based on resource-based view (RBV) and institutional theory (InT), this paper aims to investigate the influence of internal and external orientation on businesses' sustainable performance while considering the effect of sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) practices.Design/methodology/approach: Data from 351 manufacturing companies in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have been collected and analysed through structural equation modelling (SEM) using the partial least squares (PLS) method.Findings: The results indicated that both internal and external environmental orientation have important effects on SSCM practices, which in turn have a considerable beneficial effect on environmental, social and economic performance.Originality/value: Although SSCM is constantly gaining ground in the literature, most SSCM research and models examine its effects, antecedents or motivation, mainly adopting a qualitative approach. Research on the topic adopting a large-scale empirical approach is still limited. In this context, this study contributes to the SSCM management literature by exploring the role of environmental orientation in facilitating the adoption of SSCM practices and improving companies' performance.

Nowadays, growing attention towards sustainable development is forcing companies to revolutionize the supply chain and business model introducing sustainability issues in their operations. In this paper, a comprehensive overview of sustainable supply chain management practices and the value chain is conducted. Sustainable practices have been identified and systematically organized for both primary and support activities of the value chain. This paper contributes to the existing literature for both scholars and practitioners. For scholars, this paper brings together the different contributions available in the literature and organize them in an interesting and comprehensive taxonomy. As for practitioners, this taxonomy supports them in suggesting the adoption of appropriate practices to effectively made their operations more sustainable. The originality of the present article lays in the systematization and comparison of the different practices and recommendations proposed.