مدیریت زنجیره تامین پایدار: سهم بازارهای عرضه Sustainable supply chain management: Contributions of supplies markets

1. Introduction  The current sustainability concern is causing food supply chains to extend their focus beyond traditional economic goals to the triple bottom line approach that considers the environmental, social and economic domains. The sustainable supply chain implies that the activities from farm-to-fork (Weiss, 2012) meet the needs of the stakeholders in the food chain while protecting, sustaining and enhancing the human and natural resources that will be needed in the future (Erol et al., 2009; Ortiz-Miranda and Moragues-Faus, 2015; Passel, 2013; Reefke and Sundaram, 2017). Many authors indicate that intermediary stakeholders´ organisations in the supply chain play a key role in the development of a sustainable supply chain (Dubey et al., 2016; Trauger, 2014). Esfahbodi et al. (2016) emphasise the importance of inter-organisational links to promote trust, reduce risk and in turn increase innovation and profitability. Moreover,  special attention is given to sustainable food supply chains in developing countries due  to the urgency for improvement (Ras and Vermeulen, 2009) and the need for further research (Erol et al., 2009). While sustainable supply chain management has been largely researched by scholars (Rimmington et al., 2006; Tseng and Chu, 2013; Zhu et al., 2008), little empirical research has been found concerning the contribution of the supplies market in developing countries to the sustainability of the value chain. In the current framework, the sustainable supply chain in developing countries must meet domestic expectations, and also permit competition in the global market (Esfahbodi et al., 2016). In this sense, we found that there is a lack of research about the sustainable development of the supplies market in developing countries from the theoretical lens of glocalisation. Beck (1999) indicated that the market is a glocal example in which global and local coexist. This theoretical lens was chosen for this study because Robertson (2005) marked out that developing countries are lacking protection for their identity.