Sustainable Supply Chain Management for Environmental and Public Wellbeing: A Comprehensive Review and Future Perspectives

Abstract

The present study investigates the domain of sustainable supply chain management and its potential advantages for organisation and to ultimate consumer aiming to enhance sustainability in supply chain management. The study is to explore the extant literature on this subject since 2014 by the utilisation of bibliometric analysis, network analysis, and content analysis. The primary aims encompass the identification of research patterns, the highlighting of significant authors, countries, and sources, the comprehension of prevailing knowledge trends, and the proposal of potential subjects for future exploration. In order to carry out the investigation, a pertinent search query was employed to collect a total of 167 scholarly articles from the Scopus database, encompassing the timeframe spanning from 2014 to 2022. The results provide insights into the distribution of research publications across countries such as the India, China, andUnited States, highlighting a disparity in research output between developing and developed nations in this field. The diverse facets of sustainable supply chain management and offer unique perspectives on the present state of scholarly inquiry and potential avenues for future exploration. In its entirety, the study presents a comprehensive range of viewpoints pertaining to the sustainability in supply chain management, so furnishing significant knowledge for organisation, researchers, and policymakers to comprehend the present state of affairs and direct future investigations in this ever-changing and progressive domain.