Background Readings

• Green Supply Chain Management : A Concise Introduction

This book gives students an overview of the environmental issues that impact the supply chain and details strategic methods of addressing the political, social, technological, market, and economic concerns that have caused organizations to reconsider their impact. 

Each chapter describes a function or dimension of green supply chains, with Chapter 1 providing an introduction to the basic concepts. 

• What Supply Chain Transparency Really Means 

This article describes supply chain transparency and shares recommendations to map and extend progress in this field. 

Resources

• The following databases are all useful for research on topics within/across engineering, social and economics, business and management under the umbrella of sustainable supply chains

  • ABI/Proquest (Business & Management focus)

  • ScienceDirect (Cross-discipline)

  • Hollis Catalog

• The following sources are useful for updated development

  • MIT Sustainable Supply Chains  

  • Supply Chain Management Review 

  • FleetOwner 

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