چارچوبی برای انتخاب فرآیندهای زنجیره تامین پایدار و استفاده صنایع از یک رویکرد یکپارچه Framework for Selecting Sustainable Supply Chain Processes and Industries Using an Integrated Approach

1. Introduction Over the years, firms have been operating globally in a competitive market with a growing need for integrating economical, ecological and social aspects of the Triple Bottom Line (3BL) approach across a supply chain (Ahi and Searcy, 2015). Some of the issues of ecological and social aspects have been raised in several international forums, such as the Kyoto protocol and Paris summit. These initiatives have led to the evolution of the concept of the Sustainable Supply Chain. A vision of achieving a sustainable supply chain can only be realized by designing robust, system-wide processes meeting the desired deliverables and preferences of various stakeholders (Kleindorfer et al., 2005; Linton et al., 2007; Wu et al., 2016). In a similar vein, one cannot overlook the role of Supply Chain Processes (SCP) in achieving the sustainable development objective of industries. Research over the past decades at the firm and supply chain levels (Kleindorfer et al., 2005; Li et al., 2016) has addressed various issues pertaining to SCPs from the perspective of sustainability. Linton et al. (2007) also indicated that supply chain excellence could be achieved through efficient and effective movement of firm resources such as products, services, finances, and/or information between sources and consumers. The design of an integrated Sustainable Supply Chain Process (SSCP) using this perspective has evolved over time and has drawn attention from practitioners and researchers (Krikke et al., 2003; Jayaraman, 2006; Ahiand Searcy, 2013; Li et al., 2016; Wolf, 2011). The present study defines SSCPs as The key sustainable business processes across supply chain entities, which improve its performance along the three dimensions of the 3BL approach. The literature presents numerous theoretical analyses of sustainable supply chain practices. Touboulic and Walker (2015) have made a review of literature on the application of different management theories to sustainable supply chain. They have observed that the stakeholder theory used by Wolf (2014), Hörisch et al. (2014), and Mariadoss et al., (2016) and the resource-based view used by Newbert (2007) and Guide and Wassenhove (2009) are the ones that have been predominantly used for conceptualizing various aspects of sustainable supply chains. The present study attempts to identify the most significant SSCPs in the Indian manufacturing industries, from the perspectives of the stakeholder theory and the resource-based view.