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管理学
Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review
CALL FOR PAPER for the Special Issue on “Logistics and Supply Chain Management in an Era of Circular Economy”
全文截稿: 2021-04-30
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中科院JCR分区:
• 大类 : 工程技术 - 2区
• 小类 : 工程：土木 - 2区
• 小类 : 运筹学与管理科学 - 2区
• 小类 : 运输科技 - 3区
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In recent years, the circular economy (CE) concept has become increasingly popular and been embraced by policy makers and business leaders across the globe. The Ellen MacArthur Foundation (2015) defined CE as an economy that is restorative and regenerative by design. It is an economic model that is far more sustainable than the current dominant linear extract-make-use-dispose model. In CE, resources are circulated through biological (natural decomposition) and technical (reuse, remanufacturing, refurbishing, and recycling) cycles, aiming to generate no waste at all (Farooque, Zhang, & Liu, 2019). Inspired by the zero-waste vision of CE, many businesses have made a commitment to CE. They include Apple, Philips, Dell, Coca-Cola, HP Inc., Schneider Electric, Cisco Systems, Colgate-Palmolive, and BASF, among others.
In its 2018 global supply chain top 25 report, the leading consulting firm Gartner suggested that moving to a circular supply chain is one of the most common trends among global supply chain leaders. Gartner believes that “the future of supply chain is circular, not linear” (Aronow, Ennis, & Romano, 2018). As a key component of the supply chain, logistics will face an increasing demand of managing the reverse flows to facilitate product returns and value recovery from wastes more efficiently and effectively. A transition from fossil fuel to renewable energies has already started, but it needs to go much further to power all freight and logistics activities by renewable energies in the CE vision.
Motivated by the aforementioned paradigm shift, this Special Issue will feature research on logistics and supply chain management for a circular economy. The CE concept demands a renewed interest in the traditional concepts of green logistics (McKinnon, 2010) and reverse logistics (Carter & Ellram, 1998). It also requires attention on the new concept of circular supply chain management , i.e., “the integration of circular thinking into the management of the supply chain and its surrounding industrial and natural ecosystems” (Farooque, Zhang, Thürer, Qu, & Huisingh, 2019). The circular supply chain management concept extends the boundaries of sustainable supply chain management (Seuring & Müller, 2008), green supply chain management (Srivastava, 2007), environmental supply chain management (Zsidisin & Siferd, 2001), and closed-loop supply chain management (Guide & Van Wassenhove, 2006). It advances the supply chain sustainability domain by offering a new and compelling perspective, the CE perspective. For example, a closed-loop supply chain can rarely reuse/recycle all unwanted items within the same supply chain. A circular supply chain goes further to recover value from wastes by collaborating with other organizations within the industrial sector (open loop, same sector), or with different industrial sectors (open loop, cross-sector) (Weetman, 2017). Therefore, a circular supply chain may have both closed loops and open loops (Farooque, Zhang, Thürer, et al., 2019). In the era of increasing resource scarcity, circular supply chain management reduces the need of virgin materials through the circulation of resources within supply chain systems. It not only reduces the pressure on the environment, but also goes further to enhance the nature capital by safely returning biological nutrients.
Academic interest in logistics and supply chain management for a circular economy has grown rapidly in recent years yet the research domain is still at its infancy. There are several driving forces for CE such as logistical and technological advancements and increasing acceptance of CE as a viable business model. However, for CE to be widely adopted, there are many logistics and supply chain challenges as well as political and economic barriers to be overcome, for example the recent tensions in global trade and the U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement.
This Special Issue aims to examine the implications of these seemingly conflicting paradigms for logistics and supply chains in an era of CE. The guest editors call for innovative and original research studies on green logistics, reverse logistics and circular supply chain management for enabling the circularity of resources effectively and efficiently. We welcome all scientific research methods such as case-based analyses, quantitative empirical analysis (e.g., structural equation modelling based on survey data), behavioral experiments, mathematical modeling (e.g., stochastic programming), and big data analytics. For preparing their manuscripts, authors are advised to follow the instructions outlined in a recent TRE editorial titled "Publishing operations management research in transportation research–Part E" (Choi, 2019). Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
